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Originally Posted by Ken Stafford
My $.02: The numbers stabilized in '98. Apparently at the decision time there were 191 teams arranged alphabetically by sponsor. Xerox was the last team (191), WPI was the penultimate team (190). Sometime after, more teams joined and were put randomly after 191, also some teams dropped and were removed from the 1-191 sequence. By our records, team numbers were not particularly significant in '92 (you find no mention on any of the robots), in fact, the first WPI robot that had a number on it was in '97 (team 153--just ahead on Xerox at 154).
Ken
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I think the last of alphabetical team numbers issued in 1998 was actually 192 (they were sponsored by Xerox that year which is why they appear after the X-Cats). There also were team numbers assigned up to 210 in 1998. However, there were not 210 teams competing as either numbers were skipped or teams dropped out before the actual competition (as an example, there was never a team 3 in competetion in 1998).
Matt