Michigan started FLL competitions last weekend. Some events had problems when inserting team numbers in the ranking software. It seems numbers over 65536 (64k) wouldn’t work. The software was written back when FLL teams maxed out somewhere in the 20000’s.
A work around was to number all the teams 1 to x and then put their real number in as part of their team name. Another was to lower team numbers in the 60000’s to 50000’s, making sure there was no duplicate already existing.
What ranking software are they using? The Event Hub and OJS (which both have their problems) are the only official pieces of software and they can both support those numbers in my experience. Lots of areas (mine included) use homebrewed software, but with homebrewed software comes homebrewed problems!
I don’t know for sure, but I assume OJS. I heard it second hand.
Yaaaaay team 68281 showed up in my view without issue. As much 90’s internet nostalgia as flltournament inspires in me, we do not have an integer overflow issue!