A Corrupt FIRST?

[dag0620]

Originally Posted by the man

Ya and to go to that Michigan state champion ship you have to pay another $4000, and then first national competiton another $5000. Thats over $14,000 when you include the cost of the robot and gas. food, and hotels. A lot to ask a team to fundraise.

I would like to know where you got those figures from?

It seems as if you are being quite critical of the Michigan system for money. While it does have it's ups and downs, I can tell you as an outside team, your getting to go to 2 districts, while I as a NE Team am only going to 1 regional for what I believe is the same prices (I apologize if this statement is wrong in advance).

I'm not putting you down for the point your trying to make, everyone is entitled to there own opinion and free speech, and if you want to say FIRST is corrupt that is your own right. But please try to back it up with actual facts at least. I don't think I would have as big of a problem with this argument as I do right now if both sides were using actual cold hard facts and good numbers/statistics.

My $0.02