Why are you teamless?

[Madison]

I just spent a bit of time looking through CD's membership list available here on the site and it struck me that a great number of people -- many still active on the forums -- are teamless. The first 15 pages, sorted by team number, are full of proud members of team 0000 and there are people among them who are very well regarded and well known.

So, folks, what gives? What are the reasons you' re teamless this season?

I'm curious how many people are teamless by choice and how many by circumstance and why so many of FIRST's best people are now, presumably, without a group to mentor and inspire.

I am teamless by circumstance. I have bad luck with teams, I guess, and often move from one the next after a few years. Teams in Seattle, WA are few and far between, though there seem to be few high schools without one. I have been able to find only a handful of high schools in Seattle, fewer still that I can access via transit.

So...your turn.