Next Wednesday, local side NTX Rayados have a Lamar Hunt US Open Cup fourth-round tie away to the Houston Dynamo. As Christos FC found out in last year's third round, the costs of an away draw can be problematic for an amateur team. The Maryland-based outfit crowd-sourced funding for their game with Chicago FC United, which they went on to win, before facing DC United.
Since then, US Soccer has made tweaks to the tournament rules in order to help amateur sides cover costs, but these can only go so far in that someone still needs to pay up front.