[DELurker]

Originally Posted by Mr. B.

in 2013 FRC 193 was not considered a Rookie Team in the eyes of MAR/FIRST.

I was actually a little surprised when I found this out, but I guess it makes a kind of sense.

So ...

We have agreement that (E) is Rookie. I'd have been surprised otherwise.
We have an example that (B) is New, but not Rookie.
We seem to be looking at Rookie Criteria 6 for (D):

6. If individual students who have been involved in a team leave that school and start a team in their new school that team also is generally considered a Rookie providing it meets condition 1, and does not involve sufficient students to be considered a version of condition 3. As a maximum, the number of students in the new team that have competed in prior teams must not exceed 5.

So, I guess if (D) has more than 5 members with prior FRC experience, regardless of their qualification under Criteria 1, they're New, not Rookie?

1. A new team that starts in a school/organization/alliance that has never run an FRC team before would be considered a Rookie (note: most teams are formed within a single school, but some comprise two or more schools, or are organizations such as Scouts, Boys & Girls Clubs, home schools, etc.)
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3. Where multiple schools were combined into a single team, and that team now wants to separate into different teams, or any single team wants to separate into different teams, the new teams do not qualify as Rookies unless the requirements set forth above in 2 are met. These teams will need to register as a "New" team in the Team Information Management System (TIMS) by following the Create/Re-establish a Team link, and follow all steps accordingly. See 2014 Team Combines and Separations for additional details.

Would that be correct?