[BB]: KOP info

[Madison]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

I agree it's been sold to teams inaccurately (it's not a price reduction), but if it saves money for some teams (i.e. if you don't need a compressor this year or don't ever demo your robot and can reuse the cRIO), then how is it a bad thing?

In short, that's how it can help teams.

That's why I'm curious to see how many teams this really affects. At first glance, this appears to penalize a great majority of teams -- in terms of cost or function -- for the benefit of comparably few. Maybe that's not true.

If 100 teams would have dropped out in 2010 were it not for the reduced registration fee and 101+ teams spend an extra $2000 to maintain their status quo, there's money wasted. Again, I can't speak for everyone, but my team would be happier giving $1000 to any other FIRST team than to a for-profit business.