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Originally Posted by Cory
When FIRST gave teams permanent numbers in 1998 they were assigned in alphabetical order using the team's sponsor's name.
So Team 1 had a sponsor with either a number, or "a" as the first letter, and thus received #1.
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When FIRST first started, team numbers were assigned as teams joined (join first, you get number 1) our team joined 10th or 12th. When the numbers were reassigned to be permanent, we were given team 319. So it is not always possible to tell team experience by number (our team, for example, being the tenth team all time to join FIRST but ending up with the number 319.