FRC Team #1

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by JesseK

This [a team that went to 4 events, then folded] sounds like an unfortunate example of how some teams can overextend themselves. This is why business plans are a must for FIRST teams and there is even an award for FRC teams specifically for their business plans. I've seen the huge importance of them on our own team and I'm sure teams that have been around for double-digit years can attest to it as well. If, as a student, you do 1-2 regionals a year and maybe 1 championship, you've done roughly 6-8 events solving a great variety of problems over the 4 years.

Another possibility is that all the gung-ho students graduated, and there wasn't enough of an interest base built among underclassmen to continue the team. It isn't always finances that causes a team to fold.

Veterans: Have you always attended 2 or more regionals (championship excluded), say, in the last 10 years?

This post http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...eet+ regional
calculates that 75% of teams go to only one regional.