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Originally Posted by DELurker
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.
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And these waivers are issued from time to time. 5180 is based at Blythewood HS, where 1959 competed until 2011. In theory, they're within the three years and under the rules would've had to revive the old number. But considering there's only one student even left at the school from that era, the 2011 1959 squad only registered one match win at their lone regional, new teacher in charge, and so on, they apparently succeeded in getting FIRST to agree they're rookies. No disagreement from me.
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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?
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If they do not meet the criteria of a rookie team and haven't been given an exception from FIRST, then they're not a rookie team. While I've never heard of a team getting renumbered mid-season, I'd hope they would get this across to the judges.