Tagging

This page describes the rationale behind the FRC Archive's tagging system.

Teams

Imaged and media of robots, pits, matches, and other things pertaining to a particular team or teams are tagged in the FRC Archive with frc preceding their team number, i.e. frc1 or frc818.

Team numbers from 1997 can be searched for by putting 1997frc before the 1997 number as in 1997frc14. The negative numbers assigned to teams that had competed before but not in 1998 can be searched by including the negative sign like frc-53. A handful of additional oddball numbers are included for various reasons such as the teams who only competed in 1995 which were not assigned negative numbers and are thus referred to with 1995frc preceding their alphabetical position on the 1995 team list. Negative and 1997 team numbers associated with teams that later teams identify as related to are aliased to include the later team numbers in the archive, such as 1997frc118 and frc-114.

Years

Media that was taken in or is related to a particular year of the FIRST Robotics Competition or FIRST in general is tagged with the digits of the corresponding year. Pictures and videos taken in one year that features, for example, robots or awards from a past year should be tagged with both (or all) years, and videos that include footage of past years should also be tagged with all applicable years.

• Additional photos on the FRC Archive
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  The 1997 number 118 robot at a 2000 scrimmage. Over the next few years teams frc84, frc143, frc222, and frc284 all traced themselves back to this 1997 robot [1]