Strange FIRST Facts
 

Looking at the past Chairman's award winners I see no team numbered over two hundred has ever won the national award.
Any other unusual FIRST facts you guys can come up with?

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Is it so strange to see no teams with a number over two hundred win the National Chairman's Award? I'm not saying it can't be done it's just that the judges will lean towards a team that has several years under their belt because they've done more things with all that time. What I'm trying to say is that a team that's had 5 years to work on beefing up their Chairman's Award resusme will probably have more examples as to why they deserve the award instead of a rookie or 2-3 year team who is still trying to get a feel for all that FIRST is. It'd be great to see a team with a high team number win to show that new teams can instantaneously transform their high school, town, county, etc. The odds are against them but a dedicated team can take the task head on and win the Chairman's Award. As the years progress I'm sure we'll see several teams over the 200 mark. It's only a matter of time. :)

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I like the fact that in 2002 was it, that the last team to sign up was 999 (from Cheshire CT!!! YAY).

That is a creepy coincidence, now we can compare the exact time that it took the first thousand teams and the next thousand teams to sign up. We're already at the 1400 mark this year. I don't think it will take that long to see 2000 teams!!!

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Gonna need a few more pins on the OI =)

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Not till Team #4096, so like 4 more years :) We are up to 1495 now (AGHS which I mentor)

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It's been 12 years. You would think at least a team in the 3,4 or 5 hundreds that have been around for years would have won. I just think it's a quirky coincidnence than preferring long standing teams (remeber, 250 is an original team).

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Regional or national chairman's awards. Im leaning towards national though because 564 won a regional award.

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National.

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If im right the highest numbered team to win a Regional Chairman's Award was us last year and we are 957...this year if im right 2 teams in the 800s have won Chairman's Awards.. What is the quickest a team has ever won the Chairman's Award?(In Years... both National And Regional)

Nate

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Well, the X-Cats won the very first Chairman's award, which technically makes them the only rookie to ever win the Chairman's award (though the teams back in '92 were pioneers, not rookies). There were no regoinal Chairman's awards til last year I believe.

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That's not really what happened, however.

In 2002, the OI could not display anything more than a three-digit number. Team registration began by assigning team numbers at 800. When registration hit 999, FIRST had to go back and begin filling in empty numbers. Teams registered from 717 through 800 actually registered after team 999.

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I think it's interesting that as far as I can tell there's no team 1337 or 666.

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OK I'll bite. What's so unique about 1337?

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I am pretty sure there is (UCONNNN WINSSSSSS!!!!) good reason why there is no 666, I remember one catholic church's phone number had 666 as the last three digits (NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! WHAT FOUL!!!!) and they sued the phone company and had their phone number changed.


P.S. sorry, but I am watching the UCONN PITTS game and they WIN IT!!! FROM BEHIND :yikes:

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1337 is t3h k3wl. It's what you call the most ub3r of h4x0rz.

http://www.walthowe.com/glossary/l.html (look under leet)