I disagree. If the sponsor of the event (who is also the organiser I gather) wants the arena there, it is up to Robochallenge to come up with a deal that will benefit both themselves and the roboteers attending. How much money or effort a sponsor puts into the event is of no relevance to the roboteers. We had an event at Zandvoort with dragsters, dirftcars, and all kind of motorised sports. We negotiated to be a part of that, Jonno arranges to have the robots attending RIAT no strings attached for the roboteers. Whenever an EO is part of another event you make sure the roboteers that will make or break your show are not inconvenienced by that.

This sets a bad precedent, and I want to make that clear before this comes around a second time and then the argument would be well nobody spoke up about that before when we did it.