Would pouring 1000$ of prize money be enough for a robot with 2 year old team and 1 week old members?
So I'm in a smaller nation that has only one qualifier match for FTC.
Our team is a new team in our high school club, passed on after our sophomores. We entered a off-season tournament and with a week of prep and an our sophomore's robots, which wasnt very fancy, can shoot one ball per time, horrible intake, and definitely old after being moved around for a year without usage. (The robot might have been a good job last year, and it isn't now.) and realized that most other schools have poor robots too, that penalties pay a huge role, and somehow won 5th
Now we somehow have hope and wishes to win something in our national qualifiers until we graduate.
and realized we have 70$ as our club's money. This comes totally strange for a school that is one of the most prestigious HS in our nation that funds us 1500$ max for a mandatory R&E program for all students, and over 70% of that huge fund goes unused and returned. Our club is not a new club, it's been in the school for half of its history. the budget has got cut this year, it seems. Otherwise we couldnt even have thought of competing in ftc.
We were totally not prepared for this, and is wondering if the 1000$ that some of our members recently won in an unrelated competition, would be enough to give us a nice start, and would be enough to make a robot that isn't just a small upgrade on a basic gobilda kit, and could make us a recognized rising team in the qualifiers for next year.
i know it is up to us, but our members are enthusiastic and have passed the harsh entrance exam to enter our hs so im giving it a chance. i was just wondering if the budget is too small and would limit any team's potential