oldest team?

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by gondorf

what surviving team is oldest? i mean i know that they used to switch numbers every year so what team was actually the oldest?

and btw welcome to the 2007 robotics season and good luck to all.

Before 1998 you were assigned a number based on an alphabetized list of teams by sponsor. These numbers changed yearly. This is why the X-Cats, although being around in 1992 is team 191 (Xerox comes late in the alphabet). The numbers assigned in 1998 remained, and after that teams were assigned numbers in the order they signed up, giving us the scheme we have today. At the time of the Great Renumbering (1998) there were just under 200 teams, as such only the original 200 teams have funky numbers. This is why the current team #7 didn't win the Chairman's Award, but another team #7 did (has anyone ever figured out what happened to them anyways?). Also, it's interesting to note that some teams where around early on and then died again until later. Wildstang (111) is an example of this.