Five Person Drive team in 2017

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

That's because teams got a new set of buttons at each event*. Another way to read too much into this blog post would be to interpret the "every team will be getting a set like this" portion as teams will be getting one set of drivers buttons with their kickoff kit, and they have to keep them all year.




*With the exception of some years in the district format

I don't think it's "reading too much into" a blog post to suggest that a picture with a set of buttons on it represents one set of buttons. There's one coach and one safety captain, and then one more button than people expect on a drive team.

It's late December, they know what happens when FIRSTers read blog posts. There's no way they would get one set of buttons and then go "oh, actually yeah, let's grab a sixth button from this second set, with the same team number, that will frame it better". Doesn't make a lick of sense.

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

That seems very plausible since they don't have events on them like they did in the past. That seems like an extremely silly way to cut cost to me if it's true.

Only Championship buttons are labeled with the name of the event on them. Every other button is generic, and can be re-used from event to event. At least since 2009.