Historic FIRST data wanted

[Mark McLeod]

I think it's pretty obvious based on the registered team list.
You're suggesting that a lot of the teams that went to Championship didn't play in a regional event beforehand, and some registered teams never played anywhere.
Two years in a row?
Doesn't seem like a terribly reasonable suggestion, but it was a small competition then.

This is what I meant about validating our data.
We have to find as many different sources as possible and reconcile them.
That will tell us what's missing and what's just wrong.
The registered team list tells us we're missing fully half of the awards given out in 1995 and 1996.
With the lists we have we know which teams might possibly still have the event results hidden away, so we can try contacting them directly to see if they have records stuffed in the bottom of a drawer someplace, or an original mentor/student who might remember some details.

Take 1995 for example:
Non-Manchester teams playing at Championship 1995:
6, MN
43, MI
45, IN
74, MI
81, IL
83, WA
98, TX
108, FL
120, OH
129, TX
141, MI
148, TX
161, MI
171, WI

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