New team numbers

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Posted by Patrick Dingle.

Student on team #5526, Big & Little Red, from Cornell University / Ithaca High School and Cornell University.

Posted on 11/28/2000 2:47 PM MST


In Reply to: DrJoe's Guess posted by Joe Johnson on 11/27/2000 10:18 PM MST:



I noticed today that on the NASA recipient list, there are two teams with the first three digits the same. Think it's possible these are just temporary numbers until FIRST knows how many teams there will be this year?

Patrick

: I think that the team numbers have been corrupted in some manner.

: Some designation that FIRST has put on the end (perhap to indicate which regional they are attending or some other bit of info -- perhaps even some info non-sense like the ASCII code for the first initial of the team leader for that team) seems to have been added to each team's 'true' number.

: For instance, team 530 has a code of '9' following it and becomes team #5309.

: This is my guess anyway.

: It could be that FIRST has decided to go with 4 digit numbers but I just don't see the reasoning as of now.

: So...

: Until I see a 4 digit team number whose first 3 digits repeat some other valid FIRST team number, I am sticking with my theory.

: Thoughts? Theories? Better Ideas? Do tell...

: Joe J.