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Originally Posted by skimoose
Changing team numbers is one of the biggest problem with FTC.
The competition is NOT like FLL, but much closer to FRC. The competition is alliance vs. alliance, not a team against the clock. Teams need to make alliance selections, there are qualification rounds, and elimination rounds.
Team recognition, scouting, etc. all go into selecting alliance partners. Changing numbers every year just continues to muddy the water.
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Good points. ("You must spread some Reputation ...")
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I don't see why this is being treated as a big problem. 
FIRST's official answer is that it requires resources that they don't have. Ummm.... Just how much of my $275 would be needed to assign a requested team number? Why not just charge $300? It'd be a small price to pay for team recognition and branding. Assuming 600 FTC teams (probably more this year) times an additional $25 per team registration that's $15K. I think we can find a part timer to handle team number assignments for $15K!
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Art, is your concern more of having a continuing number? Or
selecting a number to match your FRC team? The former probably isn't too difficult, and could be changed any time from now on. Remember, all previous FVC programs were officially pilots, so saying those numbers wouldn't be carried over isn't unreasonable. I think the hassle would be allowing teams to select numbers. Last year's number selection process was confusing to me (granted I wasn't participating, so I didn't bother to figure it all out), but it seemed like there was a potential conflict - a team could be asking for a FVC number to match their FRC team, and it might have already been assigned.