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Originally Posted by Teched3
For you history buffs out there, BuzzRobotics, Team 175, was originally competing as Team 51 in 1996, and our team name was the Falconauts.
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That would have been before teams kept their number year to year. Through 1997, numbers were assigned to teams each year in order alphabetically by their "team name", which started with their primary sponsor.
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However, by 1998, our sponsor wanted all United Technology-sponsored teams to have consecutive numbers,...
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It wasn't just your sponsor. The year FIRST assigned "permanent" team numbers, they still used the method of ordering teams by their sponsor name. All teams sponsored by the same company that year ended up with neighboring team numbers.