Highest team so far:

1081 North Atlanta High School Atlanta, GA USA - registered for the Peachtree Regional

- Katie

Re: I am starting a rookie team
 

Since Team Numbers are assigned as soon as you sign up for a Regional, this means you're NOT yet signed up. I'd strongly advise you to register your team and sign up for a Regional ASAP so you won't be locked out of the local contest you wish to enter. Registration for ONE Regional is open now. Last year, when registration opened, you could sign up for as many as you wished. The first teams in grabbed ALL the regionals they knew they wanted, filling them. That caused later teams to not be able to enter at all.

This year, they're limiting registrations to "one Regional only" for the first month, just to let everyone have the chance to be in at least one Regional.

But, on November 3rd, the registration floodgates open and teams may sign up for additional regionals. So... If you haven't snagged an RSVP by then, you may find yourselves locked out of the contest altogether.

Since the first payment doesn't have to be in until December 10th, there's no reason to wait to register. Therefore, if you haven't already, go here right away and start the process:
- http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/rookie.htm
Use the links to set first yourself up on the team management database, then immediately sign up for the regional you wish. Here's the list, and their fill status:
- http://www.usfirst.org/frc/public/FM...s.htm&-findany

Good luck, and come back here and tell us what team number you get so we can help you find your Millennium Team! :)

- Keith

One question
 

Ok.
I trust a lot of you veterans know the basics for the controls systems Operator Interface. You probably know that the LCD display is only 3 DIGITS LONG. How the heck are they going to do Team numbers for 4 digit teams. I realize that perhaps FIRST is organizing it so that one teams "millenium team" is as far away as possible, so they wont be at the same regional, so the could both use the same team number (i.e. 45 and 1045 both use a team number of 45). But what happens if they are both at the championships, 2 teams with the same team number means that they would control each others robots accidentally. I was wondering if anyone out there nows how FIRST is handling this.

Re: One question
 

That's only the DISPLAY. The SWITCHES have 12 bits, which mean they can uniquely distinquish up to Team 4095. Not a problem for a FEW years... :)

We're not reusing team numbers this year, so that situation doesn't come up. FYI, FIRST is not watching which number is where in the world. Team numbers are assigned on a first come first served basis automatically by the Team Management Database software the second a rookie team registers for their very first Regional. Geography is not considered.

That case doesn't come up. Everyone still uses their actual team number. See above.

There are 12 bits in the team number, which means the controller communications can handle up to Team 4095 without difficulty. Not a problem from the "message getting to the right place" point of view.

The only glitch is that when you enter a team number greater than 999, the DISPLAY shows "---",
so it is difficult to verify the number is set correctly. The communications system is still working correctly.

FIRST has said they have a fix for the display problem. I don't know what that is. I am hoping that if the new controller set isn't going to have another digit (or use/add an LED for the "1"), they'd at LEAST tweak the firmware to display the lower three digits when set to over Team 999 to help insure we flip the switches right. (That's what *I* would do if I worked for IFI.)

If you wish to temporarily use your millennium team's number around the shop, that's your business. However, we'll have to use whatever number FIRST tells us to use at the competition site. Besides, NO ONE should be using a radio AT ALL in the pits. You are to use your umbilical there.

Heck, there's no law that says we HAVE to set it to our Team Number! Remember, there are NEVER over 300 teams at ANY regional or Final. Therefore, even if we had a MILLION teams, if FIRST wishes, they could simply assign a "Regional Competitor Number" to everyone instead of a team number. After all, the ROBOTS don't care what number it is. They only need the RC and the OI switches to MATCH.

IMHO, the reason they said to set it to your Team Number in the first place is that it was a simple rule (and besides, everyone loves to see their name in lights! :D )

- Keith

Team
 

Is there a team 1065 And if so, who are they?

How to find ALL Millenium Teams!
 

Yes... Team 1065 is: "Disney & Technical Education Center Osceola & Osceola Public High School, Kissimmee, FL USA"

Currently, the last team is:
"1087 - Zephyr Engineering & West Salem HS, Salem, OR USA"

BTW... Here's how to find ALL Millennium Teams!
Use THIS link:

- http://www.usfirst.org/frc/map/FMPro...-max=all&-find

In essence, here's how I made the link:

Jump to ANY Team List off of the Events page. In the resulting URL location, edit out the "&event=xx" section of it, and hit enter. This leaves an inquiry to the database for "all teams that are signed up in year 2003, regardless of Regional...". At the bottom of the list will be ALL Millennium Teams.

The reason this works is that the last team number from 2002 just HAPPENED to be Team 999! Because you only GET a Team Number when you register for your first regional as a rookie, by DEFINITION (this year only) *ALL* Millennium teams WILL match as "signed up"!! :D

BTW, save this link! This link will CONTINUE to generate all NEW Millenium Teams for the rest of the season, as they sign up! :D

However, NEXT season it may fail, because any 2003 teams that don't register for 2004 won't show up. (But of course you can edit the year entry back to 2003 to find the missing entrants... :) )

I'm sure there's a proper FMPro inquiry to get a list of ALL teams, registered or not. I tried deleting the year tag entirely. I DID get the whole list, but with duplicate entries each team, one for every year a team EVER entered a contest... <chuckle> Believe me, it was a LONG list... :)

The real downer though is that by this process, I found out there is NO Team 15!

*WE* don't have a Millenium Team!!! :(

Does anyone remember who Team 15 USED to be???

- Keith

Hmm... I don't remember. They weren't in the program last year. 10 was Benilde St.-Margaret, 4 was the Minnetonka Millers I believe. I don't know a 15 though....

There is now a team 1090 from Lindbergh High School in St. Louis Missouri

:D :D :D

C'mon, all we need is three more teams to register!

::crosses fingers::

- Katie

All we need is 83 more teams to register and RAGE will finally have a millenium team!!!

Team 84 has their millenium team!
 

1084 St. Clair Secondary School Sarnia, ON Canada


Finally! 84 + 1000 = 1084!!!!

Only 28,838 teams till there is a team 173^2

There is now a team 1091 from Hartford, WI

I never knew there was more than one Hartford. I thought CTs capital was the only one

BOB's millenium team is signed up!
 

1085 Norwich Free Academy Norwich, CT USA

Welcome to the fun!

Here's the latest team- 1089- Hightstown HS- now we need a sponsor to go with them!!

WC

1093 - Jewett Manufacturing/U. of Richmond & Collegiate School & The collegiate School Richmond, VA USA

P.S Here are the newest teams

1092 - Georgia Tech & Campbell HS Smyrna, GA USA

1093 - Jewett Manufacturing/U. of Richmond & Collegiate School & The collegiate School Richmond, VA USA

1094 - River City Robots & Fort Zumwalt North St. Paul, MO USA