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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz
I think they were assigned in the order that a team registered.
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As I understand it, the teams were numbered alphabetically by official team name. That name started with the team's primary sponsor. The year numbers became permanent, The Juggernauts were team 1 based on their sponsorship by a company starting with a numeral rather than a letter. Delphi-sponsored teams ended up in the 40s. The X-Cats, sponsored by Xerox, got 191. |
Al might have been speaking of numbers being assigned sequentially in earlier years. That still happens to FLL teams. Rookie FRC teams are assigned sequentially too.
As Alan notes, when permanent numbers were assigned, the existing teams were assigned in alphabetic (alphanumeric) order. Another series of teams were the GM teams, in the 60's.