The team number is encoded into the wireless transmission keeping teams from using anothers robot, remember - when the channel number is set at the beginning of the match, the only thing that is connected is the control box and that box is wirelessly conected to the robot with the same team number on the default ch40 --so each other controler would have no idea who they belong to without the team number from that info, it sets its channel to the team its assigned to, without a team number it would be hard to control your own robot
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I doubt innovation first will make a new system since teams larger then 999 ARE supported - read my earlier message
