How do you say your team number?

[Taylor]

It's funny, this exact topic came up at the BPRC earlier this month. The emcee crew had a bunch of fun. Among the alternatives:
-eighty-two nine or eighty-six eight
-one fifty-two nine
-seven one
-1024 was in hexadecimal
-3176 was in roman numerals

After the first few rounds, the audience pretty much stopped paying attention.

[Pendulum^-1]

Nineteen fifteen.

A bit obvious, perhaps, to state it that way. Convenient that the repeated "teen" serves as a mnemonic device.

The others I've been involved with:
twenty-nine thirty-two
twenty-four twenty-five (again, convenient mnemonic device)

My observation is that many teams with four digit numbers, provided that there are no zero digits, will pronounce their name as a pair of two digit numbers. (All three of the above fit that observation.)

[E Dawg]

159: One-five-nine, or if we're going for the Navy pronunciation, one-five-niner.

And a message from the GDC: Somewhere in this post I hid a game hint (and it is not Navy.)

[Cory]

Originally Posted by techhelpbb

Bill McGowen would be the one to ask but so far as I know the primiary sponser for 1997 and 1998 was BASF.

Did AAA sponser a team?

Bet it was probably BAE...who has been one of our sponsers for a while...but then we should have moved back up again the next year.

You can see the list of teams in 1998 here.

[Chris is me]

2791: "Twenty-seven ninety-one", or rarely "Two seven nine one".

General convention I've seen in FRC is to take each set of two digits and read them as individual numbers, much like years. Three digit numbers are the same way but with the last two digits paired. Edge cases are generally things like "3003", which seem to alternate between "thirty-oh three" and "three thousand three".

[Andrew Schreiber]

One Twenty Five…

[Pjohn1959]

FIRST Team Fourteen Twenty Nine

[Boe]

twenty-one seventy-five

[Tomker]

Sheshesre - tishim (which is hebrew for sixteen - ninty)

[BBray_T1296]

Originally Posted by Brandon1266

See and like in instances like this I'd be a little upset if you didn't take advantage of your team number.

They ARE "Team Appreciate"

[Alan Anderson]

We're "forty-five".

Occasionally, when leaving the pit or saluting the crowd immediately before a match, it'll be "one, two, three, FOUR FIVE!"

[Christopher149]

eight-five-seven

More rarely, eight-fifty-seven

[techhelpbb]

Originally Posted by Cory

You can see the list of teams in 1998 here.

That is interesting because the names are not really in alphabetical order.
Note the location of: Black & Decker & Parkville High School as Team 7 in NJ

It's not in alphabetical order within NJ or within the competition as a whole.

The only thing I remember was Bill walking over and telling the team to change the robot number in the pit. I never had a lot of time to think about it.

Thanks for the link from there I got this from 1997:
http://web.archive.org/web/200107090.../teamlist.html

Now that list of teams from 1997 looks to be in proper alphabetical order however it's not because the team numbers are not sequential. Nice to see it does reflect the original team number of Team 11 (Team 8). Imagine we kept moving the team numbers around every year ?!

It is interesting to me that in 1996 there are no numbers listed:
http://web.archive.org/web/200107090.../teamlist.html

[theawesome1730]

"seventeen-thirty"

[pfreivald]

We're commonly referred to as either

"fifteen fifty-one" and
"one five five one",

with the former more common than the latter.

It's nice to be a palindrome.