Who is team #1?

[Jeremiah Johnson]

A peice of 648 trivia...


Our old number... formed in 1999 was 309. It is also our area code. Heh...

[Josh Murphy]

it really doesn't matter what number you have. team 1 is from pontiac mi. our team number used to be 32 then we were changed to 47 so hey i don't care what number my team is. but it does get annoying sometimes when you see the number47 about 15-20 times a day. the other night my cousin which is a cadet onour team was prank called 47 times in 1 day

[ne0x0n]

That would be an easy Prank for us to pull off =P, good luck Juggernauts I hope to watch in Ypsilanti.

[Anime-niac_2.9]

juggernauts remind me of astronauts and space which makes me think of cosmonauts, russians, NASA, Kevin Watson, and the code he writes, which reminds me of programming, my team, me posting here, and my unusually large obsession for anime and manga, which makes me think of my avatar...basically, in my mind, all is connected-they are related.

[Dorienne]

Our team used to be like team 26 in 1996, when our number wasn't all that permanent. Then we picked out #7, which was left over from when the Oaktownz (sp?) team left FIRST. FIRST just gave it to us because we requested it. We officially became 007 in 1997. =] So this is indeed our 10th year.

[Ty Tremblay]

Originally Posted by Cory

When FIRST gave teams permanent numbers in 1998 they were assigned in alphabetical order using the team's sponsor's name.

So Team 1 had a sponsor with either a number, or "a" as the first letter, and thus received #1.

When FIRST first started, team numbers were assigned as teams joined (join first, you get number 1) our team joined 10th or 12th. When the numbers were reassigned to be permanent, we were given team 319. So it is not always possible to tell team experience by number (our team, for example, being the tenth team all time to join FIRST but ending up with the number 319.

[ajlapp]

I am Coach on the Juggernauts team. He is a little history of the Team. The reason we have #1 is because of our original sponsor (3Dimensional Services). We are now sponsored by DaimlerChrysler. We have been involved in FIRST since 1997.

The Juggernauts have been in FIRST since 1996!

That was when I was a freshman in high school and drove the robot.

The original team was 3-D Services and Brandon High School. We weren't the Juggernauts yet though.

Another interesting bit of trivia.....my older brother actually named the team a year later in 1997 while working there as a laser cutter operator. "Juggernaut" was his code name while he was in the military.

[Chief Samwize]

Originally Posted by haywirerobotics

Where are they from? How did they recieve the honor of being called #1?

They're from oakland county in michigan just like us. We teamed with them at OCCRA (local compitition) finals and took first place.

[prettyyinpinkk9]

I didn't even know there was a team #1!!!!!

[atomikitten]

If ever you want info about a team based on its number, you can access its FIRST profile by using the URL http://www.usfirst.org/frc/map/index.lasso?page=teaminfo&team=<number>
for example, team #1's URL is http://www.usfirst.org/frc/map/index...eaminfo&team=1

and to head off further team number questions:
yes, there is a team 69 (from MA)
team 420 is from TX
there is no 666 (they decided to skip that number)
1024 are the Kil-A-Bytes and event hosts for IRI (1024 = 2^10, and 1024 bytes = 1 KB, and all of us robot folks ought to know that )
cool trivia

[Dan Petrovic]

We saw them in Cleveland.... that's all I got....

As far as the numbering bit goes. When the numbers were permanently assigned, team 166 was sponsored by Texas Instruments, I believe.

[xzvrw2]

i thought the whos hot was hot teams
"whos hot? we're hot!"
haha
<3

[Anime-niac_2.9]

WTF?!?!?!?! Where did you get that from?

[Dancin103]

Yeah....here is a bit of 103 history.....back in the day our team number used to 75.....It seems as though now, our team number 103 appears out of no where like 85 billion times a day in random places!!!lol

I have no idea where number 111 came from. should i know that? lol

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