pic: FIRST FRC Participation

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Originally Posted by NShep98

My guess is a significant source of funding for FRC stopped entirely. On TBA's Insights page (http://www.thebluealliance.com/insights) 2005 is the only year in which there was a drop in the number of matches, by at least 1000 at that. And less matches fewer teams and/or events.

Not only was there little growth (the attrition and rookie curves practically touch, and the total number of teams is flat), this was the year that the game format went from 2v2 to 3v3, presumably accompanied by a reduction in the number of matches played at each event.