[BurtGummer]

I think what he is trying to say is that many rookie teams don't start with FTC. The ones that do already have a "season" going, and fundraising, summer, camps, and other activities are already in place and occurring from being in FTC. By joining FRC they just continued with what they were doing, and won the Rookie-All Star Award largely because of it. They may be rookie in FRC, but their activities aren't. (I don't know if that is true, but I think that is what he's trying to say.)

Now, I don't know when Rookie teams have to be registered by so they can get a KoP, but I know that even the sponsors and teachers who organized our team didn't know about doing this until late 2008. And at that point it was merely a thought in the back of their minds.