Four-digit team numbers

[Chubtoad]

Originally posted by Nataku
no, the numbers shouldn't be redone, they can just go to a 4th digit and keep adding

I agree! I was always under the impression that if a team left FIRST then they could come back any number of years from now and have their same team number. I was not aware of any renumbering. Although I find nothing special in the actual number 271, to have any other number curls my knees and make my stomach stand on edge! Some teams I know by name, some I know by number, some I know by neither, and some I know by both! If any changes in numbering occur I will be TOTALLY LOST! As it is I'm Out there!

[Rob Colatutto]

i agree, i love my teams number, 263, but i also wouldn't mind being number 1, hehe

[DaBruteForceGuy]

Someone probably brought this up already but there are still spaces. U know, some numbers were skipped when they were given out, so why not fill these in first?
After-all it would make things a little more interesting seeing that when i first started the competition the only way i judged how good a team was was by how low their #was

just find-out if the team will be comeing back or not!

[Ian W.]

well, one has to think, how much more time and money will actually be spent adding a 4th LED to the controller? it's almost nothing if you think about it. just a slight redesign so the opening is still centered, and so that everything fits (which basically means moving it over a few cm, and opening up over the 4th digit). then, they might require some more code to let the controller recognize 4 digit numbers, but i assume that's easy to do (all it is is interpreting binary).

all in all, mocing onto 4 digits won't be amazingly hard. besides, i think they've been waiting for this day for a *long* time. 1000+ team numbers means that FIRST has started it's own culture, and it can only grow from here.

[Quain]

maybe they'll be nice and make it so that PBasic can hold more variables...

[Ian W.]

nah, that would be too nice

[DaBruteForceGuy]

I am afraid of how big FIRST is getting. I was overwhelmed by the immense # and range of teams that were in the competition when i was a "fresh rookie", and now that i am going into my second year there is going to be teams over the 1000 point!
I have no chance of ever keeping track of this many teams, i think there is going to have to be another department on my team to fill... the "C.T.I.A" (Central, team, Intelligence agency)!
I m also afraid of the competition...*bites fingernails*

[Trashed20]

Originally posted by The Lucas
Letters would be easy to display on the controller. So why don't they just write the team number in hexadecimal on the controller. There would be 4096 hexadecimal combinations in the 3 digits that way. There are already 12 binary digits (4096 combinations ... coincidence?) on the dip switchs for setting team number. The B and D would have to be written in lower case (b and d) so they didn't look like 8 and 0. Teams could keep their decimal numbers and who looks at the controllers anyway. The team number on the controller is just for radio communication. I'm sure the programmers on the teams could figure out how to program it.
Let's see, 365 in hexadecimal is ... 16D (16d is what it would look like on the controller)

the only problem with this is that a lower case b and 6 look the same on an lcd. unless you add the top part of the lcd (make it an eight without the upper right side lcd) but i think that would just look plain kooky

Originally posted by Nataku
i agree, i love my teams number, 263, but i also wouldn't mind being number 1, hehe

There are some teams that have had their number since FIRST started assigning numbers...although in 97 and 96? im not sure if they had numbers that year, we were team 31....anyway some teams who have had their number won't be as reluctant to give it up and get a new one....

If FIRST fills in the gaps or re-numbers, teams should be given an opportuninty to decline being given a new number....but I doubt that FIRST would do that to teams

[Nate Smith]

Originally posted by Quain
maybe they'll be nice and make it so that PBasic can hold more variables...

remember that it's not a decision by IFI or FIRST that limits the amount of variable space, but rather the physical memory limitations of the Stamp2SX processor...

[Hailfire]

Originally posted by D.J. Fluck


There are some teams that have had their number since FIRST started assigning numbers...although in 97 and 96? im not sure if they had numbers that year, we were team 31....anyway some teams who have had their number won't be as reluctant to give it up and get a new one....

If FIRST fills in the gaps or re-numbers, teams should be given an opportuninty to decline being given a new number....but I doubt that FIRST would do that to teams

Sure hope not, besides, our team number is 1037. I'd hate to give up that otherwise we might not go to nationals.

[RBrandy]

lol

I agree it would take MORE work for every one if FIRST did this and every one would get confused like they did 2 years ago with our shirts because it had a big 4 in the middle of it so everyone thought we were team 4 instead of 93.

[FernandoG]

I tell you what, there is a team 1111, and I think a 1064 from Milwuakee

[Melancholy]

hehe! outdated posts are funny. I wonder when Team 1337 will come along. They'll be worshipped.

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally posted by Melancholy
hehe! outdated posts are funny. I wonder when Team 1337 will come along. They'll be worshipped.

Hahaha that's going to be great ...

th0u9h i r3411y c4n'7 574nd p30p13 wh0 0n1y 7yp3 1337!

- Katie