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Originally Posted by Mark McLeod
The easy way to tell if FIRST has been satisfied that the new team meets all the rookie criteria is the team number that they are assigned.
This year for instance, Rookies are only those teams with numbers 4900 and higher.
They are the only teams eligible for rookie awards.
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Ah, but FIRST can only provide that based on the information the team provides. I personally know of a situation where a team above 4900 has received a Rookie Grant and should be excluded from Rookie status based on criteria 6 (over 5 previously competing FRC students) unless a waiver was issued.
However, the original question seems to have been drifted away from, so I'll focus it a little bit....
If a team is awarded Rookie status but has a decided leg-up in experience over other Rookie teams (8 members out of 15 with more than two years each in FRC), should they decline consideration for Rookie awards?