**FIRST** FTC Registration System

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

Last year's number selection process was confusing to me (granted I wasn't participating, so I didn't bother to figure it all out), but it seemed like there was a potential conflict - a team could be asking for a FVC number to match their FRC team, and it might have already been assigned.

For posterity, the system worked like this:

-If you had an FRC team number that competed as recently as 2006, you could claim that number in FVC. For example, 2005-2006 FVC pilot team 4 had ties to FRC team 1539, so they competed in the 2006-2007 season as FVC 1539. This wasn't a requirement, however; FRC team 180 fielded two teams, but opted to assign neither FVC 180.
-If you had an FVC team that competed in the 2005-2006 pilot (read: you played Half-Pipe Hustle), you could claim that number in the 2000s range. For example, Team Impulse competed in 2005-2006 as FVC team 160. In the 2006-2007 season, they competed as team 2160.
-If neither of the above applied to you (or if you declined to do so, such as with FRC 180), then your number was from the 3000s range. For example, Occam's Engineers, which formed this season, was assigned number 3053.

One interesting thing that didn't come up involved FRC teams who fielded FVC teams in the 2005-2006 pilot, such as FRC 1114. In 2006-2007, they competed as FVC 1114, but they competed the season before as FVC 268.

Perhaps more interesting would be 2005-2006 FVC team 1148, which had ties to FRC team 148. (A few FRC teams had their team numbers switched by FIRST by the time of the Championship, but 148 was already assigned to a team in South Carolina.) Whether they could or would get FVC team number 21148 (which would've been the only five-digit FVC team number) remains unknown.