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Originally Posted by Collin Fultz
Actually, wasn't it that the mentors and students felt that the team got too big to accomplish their goals and inspire students the way they wanted to so they split into two teams? In order to prevent confusion as a "rookie" (since it is the same school/corporation sponsorship) they were given a low number that is no longer used.
As for how they did it, what I understood was that they had a single common design, but built the robot totally separately as two separate team. At least, this is what the lady in the pit for Team 70 told me in Cleveland.
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From what the mentor who talked to me said, Teams 70 and 494 are from the same high school, and Team 70 was losing their sponsorship and was "going down". Team 494 stepped in and adopted them, and helped them out. The two teams worked together and created one design that both teams, seperately, made a reality.
On their FIRST page, it says Team 70's rookie year as 1998 - as far as I know, FIRST has never reassigned old numbers. Can anyone confirm this?