[Mark Hamilton]

If there is a split between the team and the sponsor, and the two groups can't reach an agreement, I think they would/should both have to give up the number and name of the team. Take for example a completely mythical breakup between my former team and school. Team 108 is composed of Dillard High School, Taravella High School, and Motorola. If Motorola were to decide to leave and sponsor an entirely different high school, they couldn't legitamtely call themselves the sigmc@ts, because the SigmaC@T's was a team comprised of us both. The same if the High School were to leave. The two have been associated with each other for so long that to continue to use that name and number would cause confusion. Even if the company or team has all legal rights to the name and logo, I would expect FIRST to insist they both pick new names and get new numbers because they are no longer the same "team". Obviously if a sponsor or school voluntarily dropped out all togethor it would be a different matter.