Hereby we inform the XPF that we will not sign the new amendment. In our opinion the XPF had enough time to settle down the final MTA. The MTA drafts were discussed intensely and the announcement of the final MTA was delayed several times. If we sign a contract we sign a contract and this is not an ordinary one. Every change can jeopardize the project, and we are talking here of millions of USD the teams have to invest. To change the MTA again and give teams only two weeks time to send the new MTA back with the extortive attempt "Per the cover page of the MTA, if we do NOT receive signed copies of this amendment by the above-mentioned deadline, we will disqualify your team from the competition and will refund your registration fee", can not be the right way. What protects the teams, that the MTA will not be updated again, then with maybe not only minor changes? If there were any legal concerns from the sponsor Google after the final MTA was signed, the XPF has to bear the responsibility and not the teams.
We will bring this breach of agreement to the attention of our lawyers and media contacts. We will use the refund of the XPF to join and support another GLXP team or use it for a non GLXP private space related project to sponsor!

M. Bindhammer, Team Selene