Team 2000? Is this the year?
 

I kno KoKo Ed and Ellery and Cormier all have been anticipating the fabled team 2000!!! I do believe it will come this year seeing the pace FIRST is growing at. Where will this team be from? What will there name be? What regionals will they go to? My guess is these questions will be answered this FIRST season.

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One thing that will be funny if they hit team 2007 :D :D :D

Team 2007 rookie year 2007!!! Now that will be cool to see!!!

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Even if this doesn't happen this year it is likely that team 2008 will be in 2008. As far as team 2000 goes I am not sure about 2007 I would put my money on 08 but then again FIRST doesn't use all the numbers so you never know.

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We need fewer than 70 new teams to reach 2000. It will happen this year.

Wetzel

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There was a 1977 at Championship this year, so at most, we only need 23 teams

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And with the amount of teams that usually join each year, there is no reason to believe it's not taken.

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Not only is it team 2007, in the year 2007, it also shares its name with a certain class at MIT. (with an extra period of course)

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i know I'm going to try to start a team! Heres to me being 2000 or 2007! w00t

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They should call themselves the 21st Centruy Digital Boyz.
They don't know how to live but they got alot of toyz. :D

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I call it.

Team 2000 will come from Michigan. and will go to one regional WMR. Will also get 1 award, i don't know which award, but they will recieve one award.

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I want to see team 2340 this year... There isn't any question that we will get to 2007+ I would think we could get into the 2200's maybe the 2300's.

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Sorry Alex. Team 2000 is from Clearwater, Florida. They are registered for the 2007 Flordia Regional. Team 1998 is from Michigan though, you were close (although the only competition they're signed up for so far is Detroit).

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Actually, it appears that team 2000 is a clone of 1368, Countryside High School and Raytheon. Unless their school has two teams this year..

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It'd be a shame for 2000 to fall out of use so quickly. I've noticed a handful of other teams that appear to be registered twice -- once with their old number and again with a newly issued number.

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Sure enough, there's a team 2007 this year. They're from Georgia, and not signed up for any events so far...

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It seems like just a few months ago when we discussed the teams in the 1000's.. Now, we'll have a double-millenium team, 2045. Cool.

Andy B.

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Aww shucks, I registered my team just a bit too early to get a 2*** number.

We're #1995, Hartford Regional look out, because here we come!

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2001 , now thats a number I'd love to have. You could call your team Space Odyssey or just Odyssey, that'd be awesome.

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I'm surprised no one wants to be team 1992 .

On a side note 318 teams so far.

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How many teams do we actually have in first???

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Last year we had 1103 (iirc, but it was very close to 1100). This year it's probably going to be around 1300. So far we have had 318 teams register for 2007.

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Hmm, i am surprised.

Team 2000 -> Florida!

I think i also just uncovered the big secret coming from the 340 area.
Team 1988 :p :p Jason, am i correct?

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Two teams from one school.
Has that ever happened before?

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The big question is: will they sign up for the Rah Cha Cha Ruckus?

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The big secret is our second bot for the Ruckus.

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hmm, is the second bot for this second team!?

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It happened 2 or 3 years ago with Emery Collegiate Institute in Toronto. They started off with the Emery Iron Eagles (1219, which is still in existence today) and about a year or so later the Diamond Eagles (their exact number has escaped me, something in the 1300's) came into existence. I believe it was 2004. They split into girls and boys teams due to the sheer numbers coming out to their meetings!

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Sooo... Since both teams should have equal resources, being from the same school and area... This should settle the long going dispute on who is better at this whole robot thing, girls or boys? Which team is doing better as of now?

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Im pretty sure that happened in New Jersey this year as well. The team from Montclair split the same way, one team for boys, one team for girls.

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It might be just another error, like 1368/2000, where 340 accidentally registered as a rookie.

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We just registered for this year a few hours ago. We are team 2021.

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It's happened before apparentlyhere

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Is this a new team or is 1132 now inactive? Why the change?

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My school was supposed to be its own rookie team last year. But we ran into a lack of money and mentors. So we joined a somewhat local team, 1132. And now this year are school will have its own team (2021) and they will have there team (1132).

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Huh, interesting. It took ~ 10 years for FIRST to get to 1000, and about 4 years to breach the 2000 mark. Can we expect to see 3000 in 2009?

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That was actually the reference I was making (team 1368 was registered as team 2000).

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I think it'll slow down a little.
FIRST is very expensive and there is only so many sponsors. And now that Vex is an option I bet schools will look into that if they can't line up good financial backing.

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Something will expand forever to a point. There is a point where it cant get bigger because of people funds etc. I dont think that there will be that many teams in 09. It would be interesting to see what happens if there is.

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It is not an error, but 1988 is not the final number...

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So you guys do know that although not every number is used, every number HAS been used, so we would be embarking our 2007th FIRST team...That in its self is a success. So dont worry, we'll hit 2000 teams sooner or later. Either in the next three or four years at the rate FIRST is growing.

Pavan.

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The thing about FIRST is that it really takes a few years (on average) to get a team really sustainable to the point where the kids go on to college and want to start teams or others in the community want teams at the other schools. So I bet there is a max growth rate which is probably close to what we have now. Keep in mind also, not every team number is in use, getting to team 3000 is moot if there are still only 1000-1500 teams.

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"i want a car in every garage ,a chicken in every pot and multiple first teams in every school" it was some First speech last year at atl , i think it was a Governor

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Its so awsome that we have reached 2021 this year. FIRST is growing like crazy and is an excellent program. Im so glad that I joined last year.

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Now there are 637 teams with four regionals already "full" ad FIRST probably only halfway full. It will be interesting to see how teams find a second and even a third regional though the big regionals still have space.

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Good thing I'm joining this year, grows faster every year.

P.S Gratz on your 2nd post Tice!

teehee

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as of a few hours this is no team 2000

it was a mistake done by 1368 just a small one

1368 will be attending ucf this year and hopefully the bostan regional too and maybe the championship event also depending on money

right now we are holding our at vex event just for are team i will put out some info later in the week

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To add to that, there's a 2051 signed up for Waterloo. How long to 2100 and 2200?

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Currently at 813 teams with 8 full Regionals. May be tough to register for your favorite second regional!

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I believe that this is the year we get at least one team from each of the 50 states. Some teams have dropped and there are some new teams, and maybe some still have yet to register.
Nebraska now has its first ever FIRST team, 2044.
Utah only has rookie 2059 so far.
Still waiting on a team from New Mexico to come back. Come on New Mexico!

Wetzel

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We're up to 2064 with many teams still to register new, old, and back from the dead. Where could we be by December? 2500?

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520 rookie teams would be unprecedented growth. I think something near 2200 may be more practical, if even that high.

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1164 is registered in New Mexico! As far as I can tell (I didn't check all 50 states) there is now at least 1 team from each of the 50 United States.

Wetzel

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Rookie numbers start at 1981 this year.
1980 is a MD team, going in as a second year team.

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Almost all. As of this morning we still don't have a team from Kentucky registered, although I think there have been teams from that state in previous years. (Can someone confirm that?)

Also registered are teams from Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and the UK.

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Don't Forget team 1847 from Ghana, Africa! The First and only registered team in Africa. I think an applause is in order for team 433 for helping them get started. :D

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hmmm, I could have swarn that was their number that they were assigned last year. :o Let me reserch quick.

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Ok, after talking to some collegues at 433, the # is 1874. :rolleyes: Sorry for the mistake.

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According to this, the first Kentucky team was 197 from Louisville, which competed in 1999 and 2000 (and possibly later as well).

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Thanks for explaining that. I saw that team 1874's location was "Cape Coast, Other Other" and couldn't figure out where that was! :ahh:

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I had noticed that too when I looked at the page, but that was the big news at the Philly Regional last year. Many members from team 1874 traveled from Ghana to get their first taste of FIRST, and will hopefully be attending the Philly regional this year. Also as a side note, I know that team 433 is currently gathering spare parts for team 1874, so if you have anything to help out the Ghanaians, try to contact the Firebirds and see what you can do.

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554 from Ft. Thomas, Kentucky has registered for the Midwest Regional, so as of today all 50 US states are represented.

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It is interesting to see how quickly the number of competing teams is going up compared to the number of regionals. As more and more teams are started in areas that are already dense, it feels like the regionals are filling up much more rapidly than they have in the past. At the current rate of growth, we are going to need more regionals (or superregionals) each year. It's pretty exciting.

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Ditto. They're already up to 2116 (which is attending the Wisconsin Regional). What's gonna become really interesting is that teams sponsored by rival SERVICE academies are competing at Jerseys. You have 165 (Navy) against 2114 (Coast Guard), which will be pretty interesting to watch.

But where do you think the superregionals will be?

I'm putting bets in at Chesapeake, even though I'm predicting this super-region will be at College Park or in DC. (If not at Comcast Center, probably the old Cole Field House which is big enough to have two or even three or four fields.) The other one (on the east coast) will be in Toronto; as that is already a super-regional.

Maybe there'll be one in Hartford sometime soon, but I'm not sure.

Either way, superregional registration should be just like the regional registration except they come in weeks where usually the smallest regional occur.

Any bets?

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I know for a fact that one of the teams registered for the San Diego regional is at least 2130, but I don't know of any other team beyond that. So a 2000 and a 2007 team is almost a definite.

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i BELIVE... that it is the first year UTAH has a team as well... 1906 being the lowest #... i dont remerber any 1900 teams last year... *but yet again it was so long ago*

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Last year in 2006 the team numbers when to about 1970.

Wetzel

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The highest assigned number as per FIRST's website is 2117 and it does not show a 2130 registered for San Diego. Where does your information come from?

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Utah had team 1505 from Roy, Utah in 2005, but they didn't return in 2006.

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I believe that the first rookie number this year is 1981.

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Nope: it's 1980 from Aberdeen, MD, except they are not playing like rookies based on their Battle on the Delaware results.

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1505 from 2005 was reborn as 1906 in 2006 with Weber HS, and Roy HS (“WeBeRoybotics”). So it looks like they've spun off for a second team. Go UTAH!

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Team numbers up to 2149 as of this afternoon.

Will they reach 2222 this year? "Four Deuces" would make a great team name. :)