How do you say your team number?

[brandon.cottrell]

After spending yet another night watching videos of other teams I noticed something mildly interesting. There is a certain like, protocol for how to say certain team's numbers. For example, certain team numbers that have 4 digits are often split by First 2 digit number / Second 2 digit number like Twelve Sixty-six. However if the 3rd digit of a team's number is a 0, I noticed that they often will instead say "o" as in like "02".

I also noticed with 3 digit team numbers they're commonly said as One digit / One Digit / One digit like three six five; but i've also seen things like nine eighty seven. In certain occasions where the number ends in 2 0's I've additionally seen one hundred.

How do you say your team's number?

[techhelpbb]

I usually say: 11
Or I say it backwards: 11
Have not yet had need to refer to it as equals =.
Or double back whack \\ or for that matter double front whack //.

We can put some spin on this if you like:
11...//...=...\\...11...//...=...\\...11

;)

[BBray_T1296]

I usually say: 11
Or I say it backwards: 11
Have not yet had need to refer to it as equals =.

;)

You should say "team 3" (binary, get it? :P)

We say
twelve ninety-six

[cgmv123]

"Thirteen-Oh-Six"

[techhelpbb]

You should say "team 3" (binary, get it? :P)

We say
twelve ninety-six

What not too many people remember is that we used to be Team 8 way back at the start in 1997. Then the next year it was changed to 11 to eliminate some sort of conflict. So oddly:

8...00...8...00...

I'd use % but I can't easily get the reverse at the moment.

It's a conspiracy :ahh:

[JB987]

nine, eight, seven

[Justin Montois]

Three-Forty

[JVN]

One-Four-Ocho

[jwfoss]

"five-five-eight"

[Lil' Lavery]

1712:Seventeen-Twelve

116: One-Sixteen, or rarely One-One-Six

[brandon.cottrell]

nine eighty seven

nine, eight, seven

oops...

[MrForbes]

"The NERDS"

[Robo Hamsters]

forty-four sixty-six :)

sometimes four-four-six-six (thank you to Lambots for that one LOL)

[BBray_T1296]

On our team's name note, allow me to correct my earlier post:

We say 1 of 3 names:

twelve ninety-six

thirty-six squared

six to the fourth

6^4=36^2=1296

[MechEng83]

Seventeen Forty-One

The Dactylic Dimeter makes it roll off the tongue. :D

[Nathan Streeter]

My typical enunciation matches what you described:

1519: Fifteen, Nineteen

For pretty much all 4-digit teams it's just broken into the two 2-digit numbers... unless the tens-place digit is a 0:
1114: Eleven, Fourteen
2056: Twenty, Fifty-Six
1902: Nineteen, o, Two
1717: Seventeen, Seventeen
3467: Thirty-four, Sixty-seven
1310: Thirteen, ten

3 digit teams are pretty much always a 1-digit number than the 2-digit number... again except if the tens-place digit is a 0:
469: Four, Sixty-Nine
987: Nine, Eighty-Seven
610: Six, Ten
330: Three, Thirty
103: One, o, Three

2 or 1 digit teams are just however you'd say their number usually:
67: Sixty-seven
25: Twenty-five
1: One

It always sounds so strange hearing someone announce our number as "One thousand, Five-hundred Nineteen..." but that really only happens when you have a non-FIRSTer announcing team numbers for a match for some reason. FIRSTers usually go the four-syllable method rather than the tongue-tying 8-syllable route!

[Koko Ed]

One
Ninety
One

[coalhot]

Old team: three oh four

Current: forty four fifty four

[jgustafson6156]

one eleven

[brandon.cottrell]

one eleven

Really? I always thought it'd be something like one one one.

[MamaSpoldi]

Two thirty

But last year at the CT Regional we were announced once as Twenty-three oh... it was very odd. LOL

[FilthyArgonian]

Ten Eighty-Six

[1094Jacob]

Ten ninety-four

[Calvin Hartley]

My teams, who are both 4-digit, non-zero-in-the-tens-place teams both usually pronounce it with the split into pairs.

Twenty-seven seventy-one
Forty-nine sixty-seven

[Kyle A]

Three Oh Six
and sometimes but not often
Three Zero Six

[BrendanB]

Thirty-four, sixty-seven.

Or depending if we are at an event with Code Orange its thirty-four, seventy-six. ;) :p

EDIT: Nathan Streeter's list above is similar to how I'll say other teams. O's instead of 0s is pretty common if the 0 is the second to last number.

[Karthik]

Depends on the pace of the event. ;) It ranges between:

Eleven-fourteen
and
One thousand, one hundred and fourteen
and
One zero zero zero one zero one one zero one zero

[robowrestler]

Thirty-Fifteen

[Qbot2640]

We say:
"MMCDXL"

No...honestly, it's "twenty-six forty" But usually "Hotbotz twenty-six forty"

[Richard Wallace]

Nine thirty one, or sum(n=0-->2, 30^n)

Thirty six twenty, or (1/N) x sum(n=1-->N, Joe_n)

:D

[Cory]

What not too many people remember is that we used to be Team 8 way back at the start in 1997. Then the next year it was changed to 11 to eliminate some sort of conflict. So oddly:

8...00...8...00...

I'd use % but I can't easily get the reverse at the moment.

It's a conspiracy :ahh:

No conflict. Pre 1999 teams got renumbered every year in alphabetical order of their primary sponsor's name. That's why you see GM/Ford teams in the 60's, NASA teams in the 110's, UTC teams in the 170's, etc.

We mostly say two fifty four but two five four is acceptable as well. Two hundred and fifty four never acceptable.

[Wayne Doenges]

We say 15 oh 1

[techhelpbb]

No conflict. Pre 1999 teams got renumbered every year in alphabetical order of their primary sponsor's name. That's why you see GM/Ford teams in the 60's, NASA teams in the 110's, UTC teams in the 170's, etc.

We mostly say two fifty four but two five four is acceptable as well. Two hundred and fifty four never acceptable.

Bill McGowen would be the one to ask but so far as I know the primary sponsor for 1997 and 1998 was BASF.

Did AAA sponsor a team? :)

Bet it was probably BAE...who has been one of our sponsors for a while...but then we should have moved back up again the next year.

[Jacob Bendicksen]

"Fifteen-forty"

Though at a demo it said (on the freaking sign) "Team 1450."

I was perhaps unnecessarily mad, so I took a Sharpie to it. The revised poster hangs in our lab.

[Neima]

Thirty-Eighty-Two

[themccannman]

The announcers are actually the only people I've heard pronounce team numbers as individual digits. I (and I think most others) pronounce team numbers by splitting the last two digits and the first two (or one). So 2056 becomes "twenty fifty-six", 254 becomes "two fifty-four", and 987 becomes "nine eighty-seven". That's how I've always heard it pronounced, it's also usually the fewest syllables.

[dodar]

1592: Fifteen Ninety-Two or One Five Nine Two

[Pault]

Half the time I will say thirty nine fifty eight and the other half I will say three nine five eight.

[mman1506]

The announcers are actually the only people I've heard pronounce team numbers as individual digits. I (and I think most others) pronounce team numbers by splitting the last two digits and the first two (or one). So 2056 becomes "twenty fifty-six", 254 becomes "two fifty-four", and 987 becomes "nine eighty-seven". That's how I've always heard it pronounced, it's also usually the fewest syllables.

Are team name is one of the few that is always pronounced "eight six five" because it's the fewest syllable.

[Domenic Rodriguez]

We usually say "three sixteen," except for one of my teammates who has taken to saying "thirty-one six" just to be confusing. :rolleyes:

[216Robochick288]

Two-sixteen, two-forty four, and two-eighty eight.

[Akash Rastogi]

Bill McGowen would be the one to ask but so far as I know the primiary sponser for 1997 and 1998 was BASF.

Did AAA sponser a team? :)

Bet it was probably BAE...who has been one of our sponsers for a while...but then we should have moved back up again the next year.

Our number is most definitely from BASF.

[Coach Norm]

We pronounce ours:

Two
Four
Six
Eight

Not twentyfour, sixtyeight.

[brandon.cottrell]

We pronounce ours:

Two
Four
Six
Eight

Not twentyfour, sixtyeight.

See and like in instances like this I'd be a little upset if you didn't take advantage of your team number.

[billbo911]

"Twenty Seventy Three", but on rare occasions, "Two Zero Seven Three".

[Taylor]

It's funny, this exact topic came up at the BPRC earlier this month. The emcee crew had a bunch of fun. Among the alternatives:
-eighty-two nine or eighty-six eight
-one fifty-two nine
-seven one
-1024 was in hexadecimal
-3176 was in roman numerals

After the first few rounds, the audience pretty much stopped paying attention.

[Pendulum^-1]

Nineteen fifteen.

A bit obvious, perhaps, to state it that way. Convenient that the repeated "teen" serves as a mnemonic device.

The others I've been involved with:
twenty-nine thirty-two
twenty-four twenty-five (again, convenient mnemonic device)

My observation is that many teams with four digit numbers, provided that there are no zero digits, will pronounce their name as a pair of two digit numbers. (All three of the above fit that observation.)

[E Dawg]

159: One-five-nine, or if we're going for the Navy pronunciation, one-five-niner.

And a message from the GDC: Somewhere in this post I hid a game hint (and it is not Navy.) :D

[Cory]

Bill McGowen would be the one to ask but so far as I know the primiary sponser for 1997 and 1998 was BASF.

Did AAA sponser a team? :)

Bet it was probably BAE...who has been one of our sponsers for a while...but then we should have moved back up again the next year.

You can see the list of teams in 1998 here (http://web.archive.org/web/19980529072224/http://www.usfirst.org/1998comp/teamlist.html).

[Chris is me]

2791: "Twenty-seven ninety-one", or rarely "Two seven nine one".

General convention I've seen in FRC is to take each set of two digits and read them as individual numbers, much like years. Three digit numbers are the same way but with the last two digits paired. Edge cases are generally things like "3003", which seem to alternate between "thirty-oh three" and "three thousand three".

[Andrew Schreiber]

One Twenty Five…

[Pjohn1959]

FIRST Team Fourteen Twenty Nine

[Boe]

twenty-one seventy-five

[Tomker]

Sheshesre - tishim (which is hebrew for sixteen - ninty) ;)

[BBray_T1296]

See and like in instances like this I'd be a little upset if you didn't take advantage of your team number.

They ARE "Team Appreciate"

[Alan Anderson]

We're "forty-five".

Occasionally, when leaving the pit or saluting the crowd immediately before a match, it'll be "one, two, three, FOUR FIVE!"

[Christopher149]

eight-five-seven

More rarely, eight-fifty-seven

[techhelpbb]

You can see the list of teams in 1998 here (http://web.archive.org/web/19980529072224/http://www.usfirst.org/1998comp/teamlist.html).

That is interesting because the names are not really in alphabetical order.
Note the location of: Black & Decker & Parkville High School as Team 7 in NJ

It's not in alphabetical order within NJ or within the competition as a whole.

The only thing I remember was Bill walking over and telling the team to change the robot number in the pit. I never had a lot of time to think about it.

Thanks for the link from there I got this from 1997:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010709070558/http://www.usfirst.org/1997comp/teamlist.html

Now that list of teams from 1997 looks to be in proper alphabetical order however it's not because the team numbers are not sequential. Nice to see it does reflect the original team number of Team 11 (Team 8). Imagine we kept moving the team numbers around every year :)?!

It is interesting to me that in 1996 there are no numbers listed:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010709062249/http://www.usfirst.org/1996comp/teamlist.html

[theawesome1730]

"seventeen-thirty"

[pfreivald]

We're commonly referred to as either

"fifteen fifty-one" and
"one five five one",

with the former more common than the latter.

It's nice to be a palindrome.

[Andrew Lawrence]

"Two Fifty-Six" or "Two Five Six".

[Woolly]

"Eighteen oh six"
Like you'd say a year.


I guess one could say it
"Eighteen ought six."
or
"Eighteen Zero Six"
or even
"Eighteen naught six"

[Coach Norm]

They ARE "Team Appreciate"


We are Team Appreciate and the funny story is that it took us quite a while to figure out the 2, 4, 6, 8 instead of twentyfour, sixtyeight. It was a no brainer after we realized it.

[CalTran]

One-Four-Ocho

I'm surprised no one commented on this one...think I'll have to start calling the Robowranglers by this number instead. :rolleyes:

Our team usually goes by "twenty-four ten". I can honestly say I've never heard it any other way. Or if I have, it didn't register that someone was calling our team.

[Mitchell1714]

1714
It's almost always seventeen-fourteen

[dag0620]

Ten-Seventy-One

I cringe when people say Team One-Zero-Seven-One.

[Starke]

One
Seven
Four

[jwallace15]

Sixty Eight.

I find myself calling 3 digit teams by their first digit and their last pair... Such as "one eighteen" or "five forty-eight".

I also call 4 digit teams by their first pair of digits and their last pair ("twenty-three thirty-seven" or "twelve forty-one")

[Akash Rastogi]

One Twenty Five…

Was waiting for this to be CD official. Very cool :)

[connor.worley]

Fifteen thirty eight is correct.
One five three eight is acceptable.
One thousand five hundred thirty eight is wrong.

[Travis Hoffman]

"Forty-eight". ZZZZ.

Alternately, "We're not forty-seven, and no, we did not create the Chief Delphi forums."

Also, German is fun. Maybe I should start randomly yelling "ACHTUNDVIERZIG!!!!"?

[sergioCorral842]

"Eight - Forty Two"

[Mark Sheridan]

either
"three three oh nine" or "thirty three oh nine"

Sometimes "tree tree oh mine" to confuse people


I wonder about the Juggernauts or Palo Alto High School:D

[Abhishek R]

Six Twenty Four is what most announcers and outsiders will say.

The team usually says Six Two Four, but sometimes we just interchange them.

[yash101]

I usually say: 11
Or I say it backwards: 11
Have not yet had need to refer to it as equals =.
Or double back whack \\ or for that matter double front whack //.

We can put some spin on this if you like:
11...//...=...\\...11...//...=...\\...11

;)

That's a lot of C++ comments. Also, hello team 3 (Binary) :D



Ours is either:
Pa-ra-dise
Eleven-Sixty-five!

[216Robochick288]

It's funny, this exact topic came up at the BPRC earlier this month. The emcee crew had a bunch of fun. Among the alternatives:
-eighty-two nine or eighty-six eight
-one fifty-two nine
-seven one
-1024 was in hexadecimal
-3176 was in roman numerals

After the first few rounds, the audience pretty much stopped paying attention.

I read "eighty-two nine" but my brain read nineteen. 8219? 8219?!? I havn't been out of FIRST that lo... Oh. 829... The heart attack I just had...

[H.A.L.]

"Two - Four - Six - Eight"
Sometimes we have to set the MC's straight :)

[P.J.]

Nine-Ten, pretty much exclusively.

We use nine-one-oh for one specific cheer though, because it sounds better.

[Oblarg]

449 is, without exception, "four four nine."

4464 uses both "forty-four sixty-four" and "four four six four," with the latter being more common

[cadandcookies]

In almost all circumstances, we are team Twenty-two Twenty (mostly because it's awesome for cheering). Except when we're explaining numbering to sponsors. We have a couple of team members who like "deux-deux-deux cero" though.

[c_hartman_00]

Four forty-seven
On occasions fo-fo-seven

[Aroki]

1787: Seventeen-Eighty-Seven

Also mentor an FLL team number 13531: Thirteen-Five-Thirty-One

[Libby K]

FIRST Team Fourteen Twenty Nine

Ding ding ding! Following up on that homework from a few years ago, I see...

Sheshesre - tishim (which is hebrew for sixteen - ninty) ;)

That is awesome. I never learned how to count past ten in Hebrew. I really enjoy getting to understand the structure of how numbers are grouped up in other languages.


For me:
Nineteen Twenty Three,
except for one cheer where we use One-Nine-Two-Three.

I think the pattern's pretty clear here.

[Billfred]

Over the past and present:

Twelve Ninety-Three
Sixteen Eighteen (except the last year... (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/33623))
Twenty-Eight Fifteen
Forty-Nine Oh-One

[Andrew Schreiber]

Ding ding ding! Following up on that homework from a few years ago, I see...


First, I ain't never been too good at homework - ask any teacher I've ever had.

Second, the question wasn't how we introduce our team.. it was how do we say our number. :)

[DampRobot]

There's really a thread on this?

For the record, it's definitely not "team one hundred." We prefer "team ten zero," or, if you simply must, "team one-oh-zero"

[BBray_T1296]

There's really a thread on this?

What is scarier is that it has gotten nearly 90 posts in just 12 hours, over 1 month before kickoff...

[Neima]

i have noticed that manly three digit team numbers are either the first number followed by the last two together like
254 two-fifty-four
111 one-eleven
but i have seen some teams just list there numbers like
525 five-two-five
987 nine-eight-seven
696 six-nine-six

[markmcgary]

Forty-three Twenty-two.

But, Four-Three-Two-Two rolls off the tongue pretty nicely also.

[Connerd]

We just do three-two-four-five. That seems to be common...

[gracie.]

Twenty-three ninety-nine.
But almost every announcer goes for two three nine nine.

[Kimmeh]

My high school team was "Two six oh-four"
My previous team was "Thirty-four twenty-one."

My current team is "Fifty-fourty-six". I think. I don't remember if that's actually our number or not. And I'm too lazy to double check right now.

[Brandon Holley]

One Twenty Five…

Was waiting for this to be CD official. Very cool :)

He may be new, but he still got the team number right...

"One Twenty-Five"


-Brando

[techhelpbb]

That's a lot of C++ comments. Also, hello team 3 (Binary) :D


Team 0 in Stibitz code cause we don't like to be negative. :rolleyes:

This is actually a joke wrapped in a joke see the section 'Computer Art' below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stibitz

[joelg236]

Four three three four. Strangely enough, we're the only team that we use this way of pronouncing for. We use the forty three thirty four way for virtually every other team.

[Marc S.]

Our team hasn't been called by an emcee yet, but I imagine them saying it like this:

Fifty-one-oh-two!

[Clem1640]

sixteen forty

[Bryce2471]

twenty four seventy one

On an unrelated note, I though our number was prime for quite a while, but it's divisible by 7 and 353.

[SuspectedApollo]

Four fifty-one or four five one

[AdamHeard]

There's really a thread on this?

For the record, it's definitely not "team one hundred." We prefer "team ten zero," or, if you simply must, "team one-oh-zero"

Really? I've only ever heard team one hundred.

[billbo911]

...
For the record, it's definitely not "team one hundred." We prefer "team ten zero," or, if you simply must, "team one-oh-zero"

Really? I've only ever heard team one hundred.

I'm with you Adam, never heard it called anything except "Team One Hundred".
So, that makes it official. Henceforth, you shall always be referred to as "Team One Hundred".

[EMHS2773]

We've always been Emceed at the competitions as Twenty-Seven-Seventy-Three.

[Dragonking]

eight six two
or eight sixty two

one of our cheers is "eight-six-two, orange and blue"
those are our team colors

[Jefferson]

Zenzizenzic of two

[Pratik Kunapuli]

Three forty-one

[Kevin Leonard]

Team Twenty.
Or sometimes, when we're feelin' goofy:

Team Twunny.

[DampRobot]

Really? I've only ever heard team one hundred.

I'm with you Adam, never heard it called anything except "Team One Hundred".
So, that makes it official. Henceforth, you shall always be referred to as "Team One Hundred".

Guys, I was joking. "Team one hundred" is the real way. Although if you want to call us that, go right ahead.


We always used to joke that because 254 used to be very strict about being pronounced "two five four" instead of "two fifty four,"* we should start calling them "team twenty five four" and us "team ten zero."


*Source: 254 and 100 alum.

[Celia]

Two-forty. Pretty straight-forward.

[Zuelu562]

I've experienced both of these phenomena being on Five Six Two and Thirty-Six Twenty-Three. I've also been known to say Three Six Two Three though.

[Steven Donow]

Looks like we were in the minority of not going by "two twenty-three" and instead going by "two two three"

[ebarker]

Thirteen Eleven

[Kpchem]

Three-Sixty. Nice and simple :)

[pfreivald]

It seems to me that this thread is just a verification of one of the unwritten rules of linguistics when it comes to English and numbers...by and large, people say things how neurolinguists predict they will!

[Chris Fultz]

usually two-thirty-four.

sometimes two-three-four.

and recently, once,
twenty-three-four.

[Ben Martin]

Most of the time - "two two five"
Occasionally - "two twenty-five"

[Banderoonies]

On our team (195) We usually say One-Nine-Five....but occasionally hear us called "one ninety five" and we are good with that too :)

[safiq10]

99% of the time its twentynine-fifty

[JohnFogarty]

"forty nine OH one"

Which is funny because my old team number was.

"Eleven OH two"

[treffk]

eighteen oh two = 1802

[M. Lillis]

On 177 we usually say "one-seven-seven." But then again, I never hear anyone on my team say the number, so I could be dead wrong.

[oscarfonloz]

Since we're from Mexico, we say it in Spanish: "veintidós ochenta y tres".

It's divided the same way we are almost always called in English: twenty-two eighty-three.

[kuraikou]

We simply say forty one eighty three. So i guess we are saying it the most common way.:)

[Munchskull]

nine-nine-seven. I hate when a competition they call us team "Nine hundred and ninety seven."

[MetalJacket]

Twenty Sixty-Eight

[LilsisdeRosie]

Rosie is Eight thirty nine

[nomad725]

Forty Nine Fifty iFour

[Allison K]

Semi-related and always trips me up... have you ever tried announcing for an FLL competition with five digit team numbers? Take 15886 (made up example, most likely a team somewhere). "Fifteen thousand eight hundred and eighty six" takes eons to say out loud. "One five eight eight six"? "One fifty-eight eighty-six"? "Fifteen Eighty-Eight Six"? This is a serious conundrum. At least there are only two teams on the field for each match.

[Bryce2471]

"Fifteen thousand eight hundred and eighty six" takes eons to say out loud. "One five eight eight six"? "One fifty-eight eighty-six"? "Fifteen Eighty-Eight Six"? This is a serious conundrum.

My solution to this problem, when I was on an FLL team, was to sign up early each year, and get a small team number. The best we ever did at this was our last year, we scored number 495.

[dag0620]

Semi-related and always trips me up... have you ever tried announcing for an FLL competition with five digit team numbers? Take 15886 (made up example, most likely a team somewhere). "Fifteen thousand eight hundred and eighty six" takes eons to say out loud. "One five eight eight six"? "One fifty-eight eighty-six"? "Fifteen Eighty-Eight Six"? This is a serious conundrum. At least there are only two teams on the field for each match.

I can relate to this. Two weekends ago I was the emcee for an FLL Qualifier and I got tongue tied on those long numbers multiple occasions. Luckily for that particular event we had mostly lower number teams.

[Iaquinto.Joe]

Simply, Three - oh - eight. It just sounds wrong any other way.

[Alan Anderson]

Semi-related and always trips me up... have you ever tried announcing for an FLL competition with five digit team numbers?...

Since FLL numbers aren't kept year to year, I think it's reasonable to announce them by team name. Vanishingly few of the spectators know the team's number anyway.

[sarah_storer]

"Thirty-seven Fifty-three"

It is also rarely said three-seven-five-three

[Michael Blake]

Thirty-Four Eighty-One

Bronc Botz

See y'all at Alamo and Lone Star... maybe Dallas too IF they let us in... ;-)

--Michael Blake

[Team3266Spencer]

"Thirty-Two, Sixty-Six"

although the joke (3*2)66 has been made XD

[Craig Roys]

Count to 18 starting with 17. (integers only)

[Jonathan Ryan]

One four five

[Teamcodeorange]

Thirty-four seventy-six.

[Racer26]

The teams I've been on:

1075: Ten Seventy-Five.
4343: Forty-three forty-three.

I agree with most of the previous posters that the general formula seems to be to read them as two two-digit numbers (ie. Eleven Fourteen), (or a 1 digit followed by two digit, ie. Two Seventeen), except when the tens digit is a zero, and then its "Twenty Seven Oh Two", or "Seven Oh Three". There are also a few outside cases like 4001: "Four Thousand and One", or 2200: "Twenty-Two Hundred".

What I found really interesting though, is the french-language teams.

Most of the francophone teams refer to themselves (and others) in the same split format, 1075 becomes "dix soixante-quinze" and 1547 becomes "quinze quarante-sept", but the announcer at the montreal regional announced teams (anglophone and francophone), in their language, as individual digits "team one zero seven five", "equipe trois trois six zero".

[TVwazhere]

Team 20

Usually MC's Say TEAM NUMBER TWEEENNNTTTTYYYYYY

Or Team Numbbbbbuuuuurrrrrreeee TWENTY!

[Victor4400]

Well, we say "four, four, zero, zero" or " forty four, zero, zero"

[Dustin Shadbolt]

We pronounced it as "fifteen fifty-five"

[theCADguy]

On Team 20, we always pronounce is as "twenty", I have never heard it pronounced as "two-zero"

[brandon.cottrell]

"twenty"



Usually MC's Say TEAM NUMBER TWEEENNNTTTTYYYYYY

Or Team Numbbbbbuuuuurrrrrreeee TWENTY!

I'm noticing a bit of conflicting information here

[brandon.cottrell]

At the Las Vegas Regional for most of Friday and a bit of Saturday the MC was going about saying certain numbers in a weird way and I got reminded of this thread. Such highlights include "one five thirty-eight"; "one two sixty-six" ; "ninety-eight seven" ; and "twenty one two two".


Also at one point he looked at the timer for auto and said "TEAM TENNNN"

[Christopher149]

Also at one point he looked at the timer for auto and said "TEAM TENNNN"

Hey, the Fox Sports Detroit Girls did the exact same thing at MSC. :)

#team10

[BBray_T1296]

#team10

This should be a thing

[TikiTech]

DA TIKI TECHS!! - Thirty eight - eighty -

Once in a while I hear it announced as three-eight-eight-zero!

No one asks at the competition how you want your number spoken.

It seems up to the event staff to go with what they like..

I am waiting for the day when all numbers are spoken properly.
Three thousand eight hundred and eighty. Which I have heard once at competition.. Didn't last, obviously..

When we tell others our team number = Thirty Eight Eighty

Aloha!

[Chief Hedgehog]

4607CIS

forty-six -oh- seven, CIS

[dubiousSwain]

We say three sixteen
(or thirty one six, just to be funny)

[Woolly]

This should be a thing

"...and here we have team ten all the way from Manchester, New Hampshire! It's Autonomous Period Time!"

"Autonomous Period Time, sponsored by 3M, Baxter, NASA, GM, Delphi, Xerox, Rockwell Automation, IFI, and Underwriters Laboratories."

[VeqIR]

We actually have a cheer where a few students will yell "forty-four!!!" and the rest of them reply, "eighty-eight!!!" It just seems to roll off the tongue really nice with the repetition of the digits.

[Dan_Karol]

frc131: "One-Thirty-One"

frc1100:
commonly: "Eleven-Hundred"
occasionally: "One-one-zero-zero"

1100 really hates it when announcers call them:
"One thousand-one hundred"

[Charles Boehm]

I'm sure other teams do this, but when or team cheers we yell "21!!!......75!!!!" with about half of us yelling each half.

[ks68]

Thirty-Two, Sixty

[The Doctor]

Thirty-two Sixteen

[Ali Ahmed]

New team: four. Fairly boring.

Old team: twenty-two. Also boring.

I should start a new team to get a cool number.

[nicolelin]

six four nine or six forty-nine

[dodar]

"...and here we have team ten all the way from Manchester, New Hampshire! It's Autonomous Period Time!"

"Autonomous Period Time, sponsored by 3M, Baxter, NASA, GM, Delphi, Xerox, Rockwell Automation, IFI, and Underwriters Laboratories."

So who gets to claim them as a "House Team?"

[Zebra_Fact_Man]

My main team goes by "three one three" and "three thirteen" almost interchangeably. My rookie team only goes by "fifty two twenty".

[BMasse772]

Our team usually goes by seven-seven-who but we sometimes like to change it up and say seven-seven-two to throw people off.

[cadandcookies]

1100 really hates it when announcers call them:
"One thousand-one hundred"

Pit announcements at Northern Lights called us "Team Two-Two-Two-Zero" for most of the tournament. One of our members actually ended up asking them to call us "Team Twenty-Two-Twenty."

[Merfoo]

Our team usually goes with nine five five but match announcers usually go with nine fifty-five.

[jaykris284]

Twelve Sixty One - most people say it like this.

[cjl2625]

We always say our name "twenty sixty-seven"
I generally don't say the individual numbers of a team, but for some reason I always say "five five eight" instead of "five fifty-eight"
I can't think of any other teams where I do that :P

[wasayanwer97]

I generally don't say the individual numbers of a team, but for some reason I always say "five five eight" instead of "five fifty-eight"
I can't think of any other teams where I do that :P

We always do that with our team number. We've always called ourselves "six-six-eight". "Six sixty-eight" just sounds weird to us.