PWNAGE 2451 New Number

[pwnageNick]

2949 is not continuing as a team. There will not be a team competing this season under that number. So assuming no new rookie teams call themselves pwnage, we will still be the only ones.

-Nick

[pwnageNick]

How does one gain rights to a number? I'd like to claim 9128 for myself.

They have rights to it because the team was through that organization. So the number still belongs to that organization. They would have to release it for us to be able to use it.

-Nick

[Nuttyman54]

This seems to be a situation similar to what happened with 64 and 39. I don't know all the details, but after 2005 64 ceased to be a team. I believe several people involved with the former 64 started a new team, without their primary sponsor. Because they did not qualify as "rookies" under the guidelines linked by Akash, they were given the number 39, a number relatively close to their former designation, rather than a 2006 rookie number.

[XaulZan11]

I may be wrong, but I thought I remember hearing that 2741 (Method 2 Madness) became 2949, following the 2009 season. Am I mistaken? If not, it would be the 3rd number for pwnage.

[pwnageNick]

I may be wrong, but I thought I remember hearing that 2741 (Method 2 Madness) became 2949, following the 2009 season. Am I mistaken? If not, it would be the 3rd number for pwnage.

2741 became 2949 and 2704 in 2009.

Another reason we separated is because we were interested in becoming a 501c3 and our organization was not. Now that the team has separated, the team has already begun the process for becoming a 501c3.

-Nick

[big1boom]

Any particular reason you jumped years?

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

Team numbers by year
• Teams #2330-#2681 were rookies in 2008.
• Teams #2702-#3122 were rookies in 2009

[pwnageNick]

Any particular reason you jumped years?

The number is assigned by FIRST, apparently computer generated. So 2451 was just the next available computer generated number that was available. FIRST does not allow a team to request a number under any circumstance.

-Nick