[Nuttyman54]

So I've been wondering for some time..how does FIRST assign team numbers. I noticed that it's not continuous. For example, there is a team 47 and a team 48, but no team 54. Is this because teams sign up and are unable to pay (and therefore their assigned number is dropped)? And what does FIRST do with older teams that are no longer competing? Do they put it "on hold' in case the team decides to return? Thanks in advance!


P.S. I know that team numbers were assigned permenantly a number of years back...how were the numbers assigned to the teams that joined prior to that?