paper: FAQs Regarding the FRC District Competition System

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I really like your concluding points, especially 1 and 2. $4000 is a lot of money for a Regional, especially when the vast majority of the workers are volunteers. I would prefer much smaller entry fees and more competitions without the expensive media/show mentality.

Your 2nd concluding point is dead-on. Every year the students are so frustrated when we need to bag the robot at the end of the competition. They have just spent an intense three days and they know exactly what we want to do to make the robot better, and then it goes in the bag. My team doesn't build a second robot. Any changes we make have to be made outside of the competition robot and hopefully applied correctly at the next regional. System testing is essentially non-existant. There is so much learning that is being cut short by having to bag the robot at the end of a regional (assuming you have a 2nd regional to attend).