Which is Truely cheaper?

[efoote868]

My team's budget for each year is usually around 50k. There is no way in my mind that vex could ever come close to that.

Even if we did scale back to just the purdue regional, it would still be $6000 for registration, plus whatever for other parts, and prototyping (call it another $2000). Call it 8k a year for a half-decent robot.

Vex could never come close to that. Besides, if you wanted full awesomeness, I could imagine that our budget could easily skyrocket to 70k, adding another regional, more off-season prototyping, and more toys for the programmers/electronics team.

[Justin M.]

Originally Posted by efoote868

My team's budget for each year is usually around 50k. There is no way in my mind that vex could ever come close to that.

Even if we did scale back to just the purdue regional, it would still be $6000 for registration, plus whatever for other parts, and prototyping (call it another $2000). Call it 8k a year for a half-decent robot.

Vex could never come close to that. Besides, if you wanted full awesomeness, I could imagine that our budget could easily skyrocket to 70k, adding another regional, more off-season prototyping, and more toys for the programmers/electronics team.

Money 321 spent this year:

$3000 on new tools, protyping, computers, etc
$6000 on FRC registration, Philly Regional, and KOP
$3500 on additional parts for the robot (max, but we are getting close)
$5000 on Championship registration

Approximations for the future (but still this season):

$2000 for flight and hotel reservations for the Championship
$1000 for food
$2000 for off-season events, etc

So right now for this complete season (off-season to kickoff to build to competition to off-season), we will spend a projected $22,500. So far we spent about $17,500.

FRC is very very expensive.