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Originally Posted by Chris is me
If you go back and watch footage from early years, you'll notice they don't call teams by their name, or their number, but by their sponsor. Many teams had a single corporate sponsor paired with a high school, so you would literally see GM versus Motorola in the finals. FRC enticed corporations and engineers by presenting a cool challenge with publicity and name recognition for the winner - plus working with high schoolers who can be inspired by how cool everything is and for most teams take a hands-on role in a real engineering challenge.
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Interesting, that might be why in the official FIRST database for every regional registration list it shows the sponsors under the category labeled name - a remnant from a previous time.
Though I do think it would be cool to see just the professionals on their own team, and see how they compare to the FRC student side teams!