New Zealand VEX

[Trueliez]

Originally Posted by SCROSSLEY-GCEC

They're using the money they will have left over to fund 4 VEX teams to World Champs instead of the winning two.
Also will be doing the new VEX game in August(?) out of the same fund

If we did FRC they were going to have to cancel just about everything robotics for like 3 years (apparently)

With the economy crashing down around us, NZ just aren't in a position to do much more at the moment :S it sucks

Expanding on Steph's comments a little...

Holding an FRC Regional in New Zealand would have cleaned out the New Zealand FIRST Trust completely leaving no money for future robotics endeavours until we found new sponsors, which in this financial climate is difficult to say the least.

I believe the aim of NZ FIRST at the moment is to continue working with VEX to expand and start up regionals in other parts of the country and include more schools. I don't think that any FRC competitions will be happening here for a while, unless we gain a lot of long term funding soon, and/or until the profile of FIRST has been raised.

Correct me if I'm wrong haha =]