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Littleboy
14-11-2013, 19:36
I've heard that they (or some of the members) were merging with 2054. I can't speak for the accuracy of this statement but I have heard it from multiple sources. This is intiresting because I believe 2054 was a split-off from 2000.
If anybody can comment on the accuracy of this, please do.
2054's rookie year was in 2007. 2000's first year was in 2010. I think 2000 was split from 2054, not the other way around.
Calvin Hartley
14-11-2013, 21:11
2054's rookie year was in 2007. 2000's first year was in 2010. I think 2000 was split from 2054, not the other way around.
Thanks. Now that you say that, that is what I heard. I knew it was something along those lines though. :p
Christopher149
14-11-2013, 23:34
A senior from 2000 who is now at my university says that most of the involved/interested people were seniors who have graduated, and so the team was folding.
orangemoore
15-11-2013, 00:41
2054's rookie year was in 2007. 2000's first year was in 2010. I think 2000 was split from 2054, not the other way around.
Can someone explain how a team could be 3 years older and have a number difference of 54
Thanks!
Jscout11
15-11-2013, 00:58
Can someone explain how a team could be 3 years older and have a number difference of 54
Thanks!
If a team branches off from another team, they are often not considered rookies, but rather a "new veteran" because they often share much of the experience and resources of the original team. The new veteran is given the same rookie year as the original team and a corresponding number to that year (ie 2014=4900+).
For example, our second team, FRC 193 formed last year, but has a listed rookie year of 1997 (11's rookie year). The stipulation when they received their number was that it could not be lower than any other rookies from that year (I think this may have been because the team number system changed after the 1997 season.) The highest numbered team from 1997 was team 192.
I've heard that they (or some of the members) were merging with 2054. I can't speak for the accuracy of this statement but I have heard it from multiple sources. This is intiresting because I believe 2054 was a split-off from 2000.
If anybody can comment on the accuracy of this, please do.
The mentor who I talked to had an older son on 2000 and a younger son on 2054. It seems like what's left of 2000 will probably end up on 2054.
Mark McLeod
18-11-2013, 08:58
Crossed the 2700 team milestone this morning.
Allison K
18-11-2013, 13:55
Looks like Michigan added Waterford as a 14th District event March 28-29. No teams are registered yet. Neither Waterford nor the new Midland district have been added to the FiM site yet. Midland also isn't showing up in a search on the usfirst.org site, and on FRC links only shows up when searching for "all areas" rather than just Michigan. Midland does however have 30 teams registered.
Mark McLeod
18-11-2013, 17:00
Midland's name also has been changed to: Great Lakes Bay Region FIRST Robotics District Competition
Calvin Hartley
18-11-2013, 21:58
Not to be competitive or anything, but according to this (https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso?page=searchform) list California has 237 teams and Michigan has 284 teams out of a total of 2718. This suggests that Michigan has more teams than California, who has (roughly) 4 times as many people as Michigan does. It also means that Michigan has over 10% of FRC teams. :D
Does anyone know anything about unregistered teams? How many are there? Where can I find this information?
Christopher149
18-11-2013, 22:42
Link (http://www.usfirst.org/whats-going-on/teams?ProgramCode=FRC&Season=2014&Country=USA&StateProv=&ZipCode=&Radius=&op=Search&form_build_id=form-2KxKqq-r-FEI3L4bYBybWa_FqpgVqtyL_-4hU6J7bdA&form_id=first_search_teams_form&sort=desc&order=Team%20Number)
If they have and 8-digit number, they (I believe) are in the interim prior to registering for an event.
Caleb Sykes
18-11-2013, 22:46
Not to be competitive or anything, but according to this (https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso?page=searchform) list California has 237 teams and Michigan has 284 teams out of a total of 2718. This suggests that Michigan has more teams than California, who has (roughly) 4 times as many people as Michigan does. It also means that Michigan has over 10% of FRC teams. :D
Not to be competitive or anything, but Minnesota should have a little over 200 teams this year, despite the fact that Michigan's population is roughly double that of Minnesota's. :D
Pjohn1959
19-11-2013, 07:42
Hub City is becoming quite an international regional. Now with 4 teams from Australia, 5 from China, and 1 from Turkey, all we are missing is some from Canada and Mexico. :)
Hub City is becoming quite an international regional. Now with 4 teams from Australia, 5 from China, and 1 from Turkey, all we are missing is some from Canada and Mexico. :)
Houston Lone Star Regional also has 3 teams from China,
Its neat to see growth internationally, hopefully these teams can grow quickly and form a chinese and an Australia regional next year
Calvin Hartley
19-11-2013, 11:14
Not to be competitive or anything, but Minnesota should have a little over 200 teams this year, despite the fact that Michigan's population is roughly double that of Minnesota's. :D
Hahaha, okay, you win in that respect. Maybe. It would be intiresting to see what the numbers look like for team density in different areas.
Richard Wallace
19-11-2013, 15:17
Hahaha, okay, you win in that respect. Maybe. It would be intiresting to see what the numbers look like for team density in different areas.I am pretty sure Mark has that data. :cool:
Several years ago, I took a whack (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=538931&postcount=18) at listing US states ranked by number of FRC teams per million residents.
Does anyone know which regionals have open spots left ?
wilsonmw04
21-11-2013, 15:34
Does anyone know which regionals have open spots left ?
Hub City (4 spaces) and Mexico City (15 spaces) look to be the only ones left. Everything else looks to be wait listed.
MARS_James
21-11-2013, 17:00
Hub City (4 spaces) and Mexico City (15 spaces) look to be the only ones left. Everything else looks to be wait listed.
If this is true that is crazy :eek: I have never heard of only two regionals not being at capacity. (Though after December 5th it will be interesting how that changes)
Steven Donow
21-11-2013, 17:29
If this is true that is crazy :eek: I have never heard of only two regionals not being at capacity. (Though after December 5th it will be interesting how that changes)
Technically, a bunch more aren't at capacity, but those are just the hidden future waitlist spots/rookie spots.
Technically, a bunch more aren't at capacity, but those are just the hidden future waitlist spots/rookie spots.
A number of events have filled their reserved spots and most of the regionals that do have reserved spots left have more or way more teams on the wait list than they do spots.
A lot of teams are going to be disappointed that they do not get to attend a second regional this season.
Meanwhile in MAR, NE and PNW all but 2 of the wait lists have been cleared, and only 1 of those have more teams than spots. FiM has a few wait lists but they only recently added two additional events that I believe brought them up to the needed capacity for everyone to play twice.
PayneTrain
21-11-2013, 20:26
I do know there are a couple event that haven't cleared their waitlist because they're in a real pickle (i.e. with <10 spots left you have 8 local teams, local rookies, and some OOS teams)
Some states/regions are building teams without implementing a scalable competition model (for a variety of rational, sensible reasons) but this is the result.
Littleboy
22-11-2013, 16:11
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/regional-events
Just noticed this today. Does anyone know what it is for?
Steven Donow
22-11-2013, 16:17
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/regional-events
Just noticed this today. Does anyone know what it is for?
This definitely wasn't there last night. In reality, it's probably for testing something, but at the same time, why would they call it, "Pre-Forfeit Team Non-Competing"?
Let's break this down here:
"Pre-Forfeit"
I have no idea what that could mean.
"Team"
Makes sense.
"Non-Competing"
The only like I can see to what we have existing already is that for RAS and EI, a team can compete for the award at their District Championship without actually competing with their robot.
Maybe, this is their to reflect those teams that win. For example, Team 321 (http://www.usfirst.org/whats-going-on/team/FRC/211651) won EI at MAR Championships last year, and because they were not registered there, this is not reflected in any official FIRST documentation, other than looking at the manual entered awards page on the event page. Maybe this is a "fake event" to reflect that? This also has happened with DL winners in MAR.
Aren Siekmeier
22-11-2013, 16:31
"Pre-Forfeit"
I have no idea what that could mean.
Perhaps "Pre-Forfeit" because they are waiting on some teams to give up their extra regional registrations to make room for new teams with no spot. In the meantime, the new teams can register for this "Non-Competition." Being officially registered for an event is I believe required for payment, team registration, and kit delivery, so just being on a waitlist wouldn't cut it, is my guess.
The title seems to be "Forfeit Team Non-Competition" now. Haven't there been a few teams in the past that register just for the kit and don't plan on attending the Regionals they signed up for? I thought I heard something about an Australian team doing so. If that's the case, this "event" might be for those teams.
Mark McLeod
22-11-2013, 17:22
Here's the only team listed so far:
Blacktown, NSW, Australia
Blacktown Boys High School
4801 (https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso?page=team_details&tpid=216291&-session=myarea:0A7D78871b65529F8BQjrP3A3CE7)
The sibling Girls team is not listed here, but is listed for Hub City, so maybe they're only going to send one of their teams abroad this season.
Maybe they need to be registered somewhere to get a KoP, but they don't want to actually compete. They could just be building a robot for the Australia offseason, and need a KoP.
There are 13-20 teams from China. 1 played last season. 12 rookies are registered for events like Hawaii, Lone Star, Hub City, and Central Illinois. There are also seven 8-digit teams listed.
They come from all over, including Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Chongqing, Qingdao, Harbin, ZhengZhou, Dalian, Changchun, and Yantai, several of which are among the largest cities in China.
Does anyone know what's causing this growth? Is there a person or group coordinating this effort? It seems like too much to be spontaneous or coincidental.
Does anyone know what's causing this growth? Is there a person or group coordinating this effort? It seems like too much to be spontaneous or coincidental.
There's a business man in China driving the effort. We (FRC 525) met him in 2012 at champs and he was interested in starting FRC teams. One of our parents (who's from China) has kept in contact with him since. The business man was back in St. Louis at champs this year. He brought a cameraman and filmed in our pit for about 2 1/2 hours. He interviewed a couple of our mandarin speaking students for a special to be broadcast in China to attract schools that might be interested. (I never heard how that turned out, but he did attract schools from all over China.)
3 mentors from FRC 525 (myself included), 1 mentor from FTC 6420 and a student that graduated last year from our team are going to China to conduct a three day mentor workshop. (We leave on the Dec 22nd and get back on the 28th.) The workshop will be held at the school that competed last year.
Abhishek R
23-11-2013, 20:11
There's a business man in China driving the effort. We (FRC 525) met him in 2012 at champs and he was interested in starting FRC teams. One of our parents (who's from China) has kept in contact with him since. The business man was back in St. Louis at champs this year. He brought a cameraman and filmed in our pit for about 2 1/2 hours. He interviewed a couple of our mandarin speaking students for a special to be broadcast in China to attract schools that might be interested. (I never heard how that turned out, but he did attract schools from all over China.)
That's really impressive.
I actually stumbled across an old Popular Science magazine from 2009, where in an article about "Reinventing Culture" Dean Kamen was disappointed because he felt that he had not met his goal of putting an FRC team in every high school. We're not there yet...but this much growth in one year in a foreign country as large as China...very exciting for this season.
Good luck with your workshop!
Katna.Grace
23-11-2013, 21:22
Hi, I’m a student on FIRST Team 3132, Thunder Down Under. I’d really like to clear up some of the confusion regarding Australian teams registering.
Doing FRC in Australia is really expensive, for a variety of reasons. For a start, the US-Australian exchange rate is not always favourable. Also, ordering parts from AndyMark or Vex means really expensive shipping, which can double the cost by the time we get it. In other words, it can cost an Australian team double what it costs a North American team to build a robot - and then you have to get the regional, which can cost over $US 40K!
Because of the expense, of the (currently 14) Australian teams that register, half do not attend a regional. All Australian teams (even those that do attend regionals) attend the Duel Down Under off season event in Sydney, Australia, which is open to all FRC teams across the world.
However, in order to register (and thus receive a kit), teams need to designate a regional. This year, I think that all (6 or 7) of the Aussie teams planning on attending a regional are registered for Hawaii – it’s the closest to us. Aussie teams not planning to attend a regional tend to wait until later in the registration process, so they don’t deny other teams a spot. They then pick a regional with empty spots, which is why they keep popping up in seemingly strange places. When they do register, they let FIRST know that they will not be attending, so that spots can be freed up for local teams.
Blacktown Boys, who is currently registered for ‘Forfeit team non-competition’, is not registered for Hawaii, so my guess is that they are NOT travelling and just need a kit, and FIRST is aware of this.
Of course, none of this will be an issue when we get an official Australian regional, hopefully in a few years time.
Caleb Sykes
23-11-2013, 22:14
Do the teams only attending the Australian off-season bag up their robots after build season? Because that seems kind of silly if it is true.
Caleb Sykes
23-11-2013, 22:21
What I mean is, since most teams have the option to work on their robot after Championships, and the Duel Down Under is after Championships, teams would have to stop woking on the robot from March-April, only to open it up and work on it again from May-June.
If the Duel Down Under Competition requires that you bag your robot after your last regular season competition (Like the Minnesota State High School League Championship), then bagging at SBD would make sense.
Mark McLeod
24-11-2013, 20:17
The increase in Districts has increased the percentage of 2-event teams.
The shortage of Regional slots really haven't reduced the percentage of 3+event teams. At least not significantly yet.
The 2014 numbers aren't complete yet, so expect some changes.
Including 2014 Districts & Regionals:
(1) 4-event team (.04%)
(34) 3-event teams (1.24%)
(1073) 2-event teams (39.02%)
(1642) 1-event teams (59.71%)As a comparison in 2013 at roughly this same time of registration, the percentages were:
(4) 4-event teams (.16%)
(41) 3-event teams (1.63%)
(760) 2-event teams (30.13%)
(1717) 1-event teams (68.08%)
The increase in Districts has increased the percentage of 2-event teams.
The shortage of Regional slots have reduced the percentage of 3+event teams.
The 2014 numbers aren't complete yet, so expect some changes.
Including 2014 Districts & Regionals:
(1) 4-event team (.04%)
(34) 3-event teams (1.24%)
(1073) 2-event teams (39.02%)
(1642) 1-event teams (59.71%)As a comparison in 2013 the percentages were:
5&6-event teams .84%
4-event teams 2.7%
3-event teams 22.8%
2-event teams 27.8%
1-event teams 56.8%
Do your 2013 numbers include District Championships/World Championship?
Mark McLeod
24-11-2013, 21:08
Do your 2013 numbers include District Championships/World Championship?
They did before, but not now.
I went back to matching numbers from comparable time periods.
The increase in Districts has increased the percentage of 2-event teams.
The shortage of Regional slots really haven't reduced the percentage of 3+event teams. At least not significantly yet.
The 2014 numbers aren't complete yet, so expect some changes.
Including 2014 Districts & Regionals:
(1) 4-event team (.04%)
(34) 3-event teams (1.24%)
(1073) 2-event teams (39.02%)
(1642) 1-event teams (59.71%)As a comparison in 2013 at roughly this same time of registration, the percentages were:
(4) 4-event teams (.16%)
(41) 3-event teams (1.63%)
(760) 2-event teams (30.13%)
(1717) 1-event teams (68.08%)
Can you exclude districts and give the same numbers for teams outside of them?
Mark McLeod
25-11-2013, 11:20
Can you exclude districts and give the same numbers for teams outside of them?
I just so happened to have this sitting around...
2014:
(1) 4-event team (0.05%)
(24) 3-event team (1.17%)
(527) 2-event team (25.78%)
(1492) 1-event team (72.99%)2013:
(5) 4-event team (0.26%)
(30) 3-event team (1.57%)
(443) 2-event team (23.18%)
(1433) 1-event team (74.99%)P.S.
The 2013 #'s now do NOT include teams in areas that are in districts in 2014.
I have to revisit and verify these numbers, because I keep getting distracted...
Pjohn1959
27-11-2013, 00:07
I have seen that the Hub City Regional is down to 47 after it peaked at 51 teams. All of the Australian teams are gone. I wonder if they couldn't come up with the needed funds to cover all the expenses for this year. Very sad, I was looking forward to meeting the blokes from down under.
I have seen that the Hub City Regional is down to 47 after it peaked at 51 teams. All of the Australian teams are gone. I wonder if they couldn't come up with the needed funds to cover all the expenses for this year. Very sad, I was looking forward to meeting the blokes from down under.
As mentioned a number of the Austrialian teams are what are considered paid forfeit. They register and pay so they can get a kit and then inform FIRST that they will not be attending. Hopefully FIRST down under can grow to the point that they can have their own regional and all of the teams can compete in an official FIRST event and have the opportunity to win a spot at CMP.
FRC has another new country!
Rookie team 5311, the Space Cookies of Colombia, from Bogota, Colombia, registered for Silicon Valley.
Mark McLeod
04-12-2013, 22:28
Kazakhstan
Team 5328
18 countries heard from (not counting any of the Kit-only teams)
1-Colombia
1-England
1-Germany
1-Kazakhstan
1-Netherlands
1-Singapore
1-Taiwan
1-United Arab Emirates
2-Dominican Republic
3-Chile
9-Brazil
9-Turkey
11-Australia
13-China
39-Mexico
52-Israel
182-Canada
2459-USA
Akash Rastogi
05-12-2013, 00:47
Kazakhstan
Team 5328
This is the single greatest achievement in FRC history.
http://www.gpwa.org/forum/attachments/private-forum-both-affs-ams-3277d1376490827-thumbs-up-borat.jpg
Navid Shafa
05-12-2013, 00:48
Kazakhstan
Team 5328
http://blog.accessdevelopment.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Borat_Great_Success.jpg
Alpha Beta
05-12-2013, 15:26
Now that registration is officially closed, how long until FIRST clears all of the waitlists? Are the teams the get in off the waitlist selected at the regional director level, or by FIRST HQ? Is there a standard algorithm on who gets in?
Teams not registered anywhere else > Rookie > Local Area Team > Teams trying for a 2nd event > Teams trying for a 3rd event?
Mark McLeod
05-12-2013, 15:39
It's a little unique to the individual events as to when the lists get cleared.
Many are cleared already.
If you have an event in mind I can give you what happened for registration last year.
I think the Regional Director, et. al. draw up a recommended list of teams to pull off the waitlist and submit it to FIRST HQ who has the final say and may revise the order based on criteria the RD may not be aware of.
Different RD's may have different priorities, but your suggested list, if not the absolute order, seems reasonable. I'd add regional diversity as another possible criteria.
Still waiting on Troy, it's our only hope for a second regional for three of my teams.
Mark McLeod
05-12-2013, 15:58
Several teams from Long Island were told they didn't have a prayer of getting off the waitlist for Troy, because it's the closest for so many teams sandwiched by the MAR/NE Districts, so a couple of them switched to Cleveland where the waitlist was short.
Other teams had to just bow out of a second event altogether this year.
So just because an event doesn't show available room, it may be worth it to talk to FIRST HQ about possible alternate events.
Although it probably means more driving time (~3 times more for LI to Cleveland, than for LI to Troy, but for DC it's 6 hrs to either event).
Mark McLeod
06-12-2013, 10:07
2794 teams, but it's oscillating up/down still. Expect that number to rise a bit and drop off even more over the next few weeks.
Here's the registration chart as of the close.
Mark McLeod
08-12-2013, 15:48
Breakdown by state/province. Some non-US "states" may be iffy.
State - Country - Count ----- %
MI ----- USA ----- 287 ----- 10.3%
CA ----- USA ----- 239 ----- 8.6%
MN ----- USA ----- 186 ----- 6.7%
NY ----- USA ----- 150 ----- 5.4%
TX ----- USA ----- 135 ----- 4.8%
ON ----- Canada - 116 ----- 4.2%
WA ----- USA ----- 112 ----- 4.0%
FL ----- USA ------ 72 ----- 2.6%
VA ----- USA ------ 72 ----- 2.6%
NJ ----- USA ------ 70 ----- 2.5%
PA ----- USA ------ 70 ----- 2.5%
MO ----- USA ------ 67 ----- 2.4%
MA ----- USA ------ 61 ----- 2.2%
IL ------ USA ------ 59 ----- 2.1%
OH ----- USA ------ 58 ----- 2.1%
GA ----- USA ------ 55 ----- 2.0%
IN ----- USA ------ 55 ----- 2.0%
AZ ----- USA ------ 52 ----- 1.9%
OK ----- USA ------ 46 ----- 1.6%
CT ----- USA ------ 45 ----- 1.6%
TN ----- USA ------ 44 ----- 1.6%
NC ----- USA ------ 43 ----- 1.5%
OR ----- USA ------ 43 ----- 1.5%
MD ----- USA ------ 41 ----- 1.5%
SC ----- USA ------ 41 ----- 1.5%
CO ----- USA ------ 40 ----- 1.4%
WI ----- USA ------ 40 ----- 1.4%
QC ----- Canada -- 39 ----- 1.4%
LA ----- USA ------ 31 ----- 1.1%
NH ----- USA ------ 31 ----- 1.1%
HI ----- USA ------ 30 ----- 1.1%
AB ----- Canada -- 25 ----- 0.9%
KS ----- USA ------ 23 ----- 0.8%
M ------ Israel ---- 21 ----- 0.8%
UT ----- USA ------ 21 ----- 0.8%
ME ----- USA ------ 18 ----- 0.6%
AR ----- USA ------ 17 ----- 0.6%
DC ----- USA ------ 15 ----- 0.5%
ID ----- USA ------ 14 ----- 0.5%
Z ------ Israel ----- 13 ----- 0.5%
AL ----- USA ------ 12 ----- 0.4%
KY ----- USA ------ 10 ----- 0.4%
MS ----- USA ------- 9 ----- 0.3%
NV ----- USA ------- 9 ----- 0.3%
34 ----- Turkey ----- 8 ----- 0.3%
RS ----- Brazil ------ 7 ----- 0.3%
D ------ Israel ------ 7 ----- 0.3%
TA ----- Israel ------ 7 ----- 0.3%
RI ----- USA -------- 7 ----- 0.3%
COA ---- Mexico ---- 6 ----- 0.2%
IA ----- USA -------- 6 ----- 0.2%
DIF ---- Mexico ----- 5 ----- 0.2%
MEX ---- Mexico ---- 6 ----- 0.2%
NM ----- USA ------- 5 ----- 0.2%
22 ----- China ------ 4 ----- 0.1%
DE ----- USA ------- 4 ----- 0.1%
ND ----- USA ------- 4 ----- 0.1%
WV ----- USA ------- 4 ----- 0.1%
NSW ---- Australia - 3 ----- 0.1%
WA ----- Australia -- 3 ----- 0.1%
HA ----- Israel ----- 3 ----- 0.1%
GUA ---- Mexico --- 3 ----- 0.1%
SD ----- USA ------- 3 ----- 0.1%
WY ----- USA ------- 3 ----- 0.1%
VIC ---- Australia -- 2 ----- 0.1%
SP ----- Brazil ------ 2 ----- 0.1%
RM ----- Chile ------ 2 ----- 0.1%
11 ----- China ------ 2 ----- 0.1%
44 ----- China ------ 2 ----- 0.1%
50 ----- China ------ 2 ----- 0.1%
DUR ---- Mexico ---- 2 ----- 0.1%
JAL ---- Mexico ----- 2 ----- 0.1%
MIC ----- Mexico --- 2 ----- 0.1%
NLE ---- Mexico ---- 2 ----- 0.1%
QUE ---- Mexico ---- 2 ----- 0.1%
MT ----- USA ------- 2 ----- 0.1%
PR ----- USA -------- 2 ----- 0.1%
VT ----- USA -------- 2 ----- 0.1%
NT ----- Australia --- 1 ----- 0.0%
SA ----- Australia --- 1 ----- 0.0%
TAS ---- Australia --- 1 ----- 0.0%
SC ----- Brazil ------ 1 ----- 0.0%
SK ----- Canada ---- 1 ----- 0.0%
BI ----- Chile ------- 1 ----- 0.0%
23 ----- China ------ 1 ----- 0.0%
37 ----- China ------ 1 ----- 0.0%
42 ----- China ------ 1 ----- 0.0%
DC ----- Colombia -- 1 ----- 0.0%
1 ------ Dominican Republic - 1 - 0.0%
32 ----- Dominican Republic - 1 - 0.0%
HE ----- Germany --- 1 ----- 0.0%
JM ----- Israel ------- 1 ----- 0.0%
AST ---- Kazakhstan - 1 ----- 0.0%
AGU ---- Mexico ----- 1 ----- 0.0%
BCN ---- Mexico ----- 1 ----- 0.0%
CHH ---- Mexico ----- 1 ----- 0.0%
MOR ---- Mexico ----- 1 ----- 0.0%
PUE ---- Mexico ----- 1 ----- 0.0%
SIN ---- Mexico ----- 1 ----- 0.0%
SLP ---- Mexico ----- 1 ----- 0.0%
SON ---- Mexico ----- 1 ----- 0.0%
ZAC ---- Mexico ----- 1 ----- 0.0%
NB ----- Netherlands - 1 ---- 0.0%
1 ------ Singapore -- 1 ----- 0.0%
TPQ ---- Taiwan ----- 1 ----- 0.0%
41 ----- Turkey ----- 1 ----- 0.0%
AZ ----- United Arab Emirates - 1 - 0.0%
England - United Kingdom - 1 - 0.0%
AK ----- USA -------- 1 ----- 0.0%
Allison K
09-12-2013, 11:36
Michigan has added a 15th district event in Lansing at Mason High School. If registration numbers hold steady there will be 28 slots for a 3rd district event for Michigan teams.
Steven Donow
13-12-2013, 11:10
Does anyone have any stats/data yet in regards to 3rd District registration (which opened yesterday)?
Does anyone have any stats/data yet in regards to 3rd District registration (which opened yesterday)?
By my quick count, there are 9 teams registered for a 3rd event in the PNW district.
Kims Robot
13-12-2013, 14:16
Does anyone have any stats/data yet in regards to 3rd District registration (which opened yesterday)?
New England:
Event Name Registered/Open/Withheld
Groton 35/0/5
Hartford 37/0/3
Southington 30/0/10
Northeastern 39/0/1
WPI 40/0/0
Pine Tree 36/0/4
Granite State 37/0/3
UNH 38/0/2
Rhode Island 35/0/5
327 slots taken up, 33 Withheld
164 Teams - I think there are 3 that are only registered for one event, so if my math is right, I think that means only 2 teams have registered & been confirmed for 3 events so far. Some of this may be until more of the 33 withheld waitlist spots have been opened up.
Jscout11
13-12-2013, 15:01
Does anyone have any stats/data yet in regards to 3rd District registration (which opened yesterday)?
Right now it looks like two MAR teams have signed up for a third district (223 and 1279) in addition to the four teams signed up for a regional (11, 555, 2016, 2234) and the three teams registered for champs (103, 341, 365)
164 Teams - I think there are 3 that are only registered for one event, so if my math is right, I think that means only 2 teams have registered & been confirmed for 3 events so far. Some of this may be until more of the 33 withheld waitlist spots have been opened up.
The NEFIRST site was showing slightly different numbers (http://www.nefirst.org/status/) as of the post at 12:45 yesterday.
164 teams registered in New England
2 teams signed up for a single event
333 slots used by registered or waitlisted teams
333 - (162*2 + 2*1) = 7 teams that signed up for a 3rd event
As Kim suggests the difference is probably due to waitlist teams. So lets bound the answer at between 2 and 7.
Also I've only noticed a single New England representative attending a Regional event this year, WPI/Gompei (190) but there may be others.
Based on the data on usfirst.org, I see 67 teams signed up for 1 district, 12 signed up for 3, and 1 signed up for 4. Yes, somehow there's a team signed up for 4 districts. It's 2046 (http://www.usfirst.org/whats-going-on/team/FRC/212895). See spreadsheet for full details.
Based on the data on usfirst.org, I see 67 teams signed up for 1 district, 12 signed up for 3, and 1 signed up for 4. Yes, somehow there's a team signed up for 4 districts. It's 2046 (http://www.usfirst.org/whats-going-on/team/FRC/212895). See spreadsheet for full details.
Thanks for the spreadsheet but it only covers up to team 4855 and not this year's rookie teams.
Thanks for the spreadsheet but it only covers up to team 4855 and not this year's rookie teams.
Hm, looks like it only includes teams that competed in 2013 (so no rookies or returning teams). Something to do with FIRST's numbering system for urls. I'll have to see how to work it out.
Mark McLeod
17-12-2013, 15:09
A bunch of teams cleared the FiM districts earlier.
533 slots are now spoken for, and 67 are still to be assigned there (potentially 38 third events, give or take a little).
District Tally
FIM = 281 teams / 15 district events / 0 teams listed for 3rd event; 29 teams listed for single events
NE = 165 teams / 9 district events / 2 teams listed for 3rd event; 4 teams listed for single events
PNW = 153 teams / 10 district events / 12 teams listed for 3rd event; 3 teams listed for single events
MAR = 111 teams / 6 district events / 2 teams listed for 3rd event; 2 teams listed for single events
Mark McLeod
21-12-2013, 23:27
Here's a tally of how many teams are doing multiple events this year.
It includes Districts and Regionals, but not District Championships or the World Championship. This was when the team count was 2770 (currently it's at 2778).
4 events: 4 teams (.1%)
3 events: 69 teams (2.5%)
2 events: 1229 (44.4%)
1 events: 1468 (53.0%)
Here's a tally of how many teams are doing multiple events this year.
It includes Districts and Regionals, but not District Championships or the World Championship. This was when the team count was 2770 (currently it's at 2778).
4 events: 4 teams (.1%)
3 events: 69 teams (2.5%)
2 events: 1229 (44.4%)
1 events: 1468 (53.0%)
Who are the teams doing 4 events?
Steven Donow
22-12-2013, 00:24
Who are the teams doing 4 events?
Three of them are 216 (http://www.usfirst.org/whats-going-on/team/FRC/211551), 244 (http://www.usfirst.org/whats-going-on/team/FRC/211587), and 288 (http://www.usfirst.org/whats-going-on/team/FRC/211619). No idea who the fourth team is.
geomapguy
22-12-2013, 00:27
Three of them are 216 (http://www.usfirst.org/whats-going-on/team/FRC/211551), 244 (http://www.usfirst.org/whats-going-on/team/FRC/211587), and 288 (http://www.usfirst.org/whats-going-on/team/FRC/211619). No idea who the fourth team is.
I think the fourth is a Canadian team...can't remember the team number though
Steven Donow
22-12-2013, 00:38
I think the fourth is a Canadian team...can't remember the team number though
With that said, I took to research, and it is 1241 (http://www.usfirst.org/whats-going-on/team/FRC/212221), who are also registered for Championship.
Three of them are 216 (http://www.usfirst.org/whats-going-on/team/FRC/211551), 244 (http://www.usfirst.org/whats-going-on/team/FRC/211587), and 288 (http://www.usfirst.org/whats-going-on/team/FRC/211619). No idea who the fourth team is.
With that said, I took to research, and it is 1241 (http://www.usfirst.org/whats-going-on/team/FRC/212221), who are also registered for Championship.
Funnily enough I'll be seeing all of them in person at at least one of their regionals.
ehfeinberg
22-12-2013, 08:57
Can someone clear this up for us. 449 is currently registered for North Carolina and Greater DC. (We also signed up on the wait list for Chesapeake) however The Blue Alliance has us going to NC, DC, and Chesapeake. Did we actually get into Chesapeake?
Can someone clear this up for us. 449 is currently registered for North Carolina and Greater DC. (We also signed up on the wait list for Chesapeake) however The Blue Alliance has us going to NC, DC, and Chesapeake. Did we actually get into Chesapeake?
Always go to the official (http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/regional-events?id=430) source. Not the Blue Alliance.
You're not listed.
Mark McLeod
22-12-2013, 09:25
You can check your individual team record for where you're registered, too:
https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso?page=team_details&tpid=211743
or
http://frclinks.frclinks.com/team/449
Mark McLeod
22-12-2013, 13:07
These are the % of single-event teams at each of the Regional events.
World CMP not included, but District teams playing at Regional events are counted.
So, for instance, at the Israel Regional 98% of the teams will compete only there, while 2% (1 team from California) will play somewhere else as well.
98.1%-Israel
81.0%-HI
80.6%-GA
79.4%-10K
78.6%-Lake S
78.0%-TN
76.7%-N Star
73.0%-VA
71.7%-AZ
70.7%-Montreal
69.4%-LI
68.4%-W CA
67.9%-CO
66.7%-MO
65.6%-LA
63.1%-NYC
62.7%-UT
62.7%-SDC
62.1%-KC
59.3%-NC
58.5%-CA
58.3%-OK
57.4%-Midwest
57.1%-Mexico City
55.3%-PIT
51.9%-Hub City
50.8%-Alamo
49.1%-N. Lights
48.4%-FL
46.2%-Inland
45.8%-S FL
43.6%-IN
43.3%-Tor-W
42.6%-FLR
41.8%-OH
41.2%-DC
40.9%-Dallas
40.3%-SC
40.0%-WAT
39.3%-TX
37.0%-SAC
36.8%-Great Lakes
35.1%-SJC
34.0%-Tor-E
33.3%-AR
32.7%-MD
31.4%-North Bay
30.0%-WI
29.8%-Queen City
27.3%-Crossroads
23.7%-NY Tech
16.7%-CV
14.6%-NV
12.8%-Central IL
Mark McLeod
24-12-2013, 17:48
Just some odd statistics I hadn't gotten around to publishing:
36 resurrected veteran teams, best recovery rate in the past 10 years (didn't play last year, 1 hasn't played in 5 years)
418 rookie teams (although 1 is Non-Competition)
12 new "veteran" teams or spinoffs
8 Forfeit Teams Non-Competition (get the kit but won't compete at any regular season event)
215 lost veteran teams (although FRC is posting the highest retention rate ever)
~10% increase in teams
18 countries are participating
Qbot2640
24-12-2013, 19:31
Just some odd statistics I hadn't gotten around to publishing:
36 resurrected veteran teams, best recovery rate in the past 10 years (didn't play last year, 1 hasn't played in 5 years)
418 rookie teams (although 1 is Non-Competition)
12 new "veteran" teams or spinoffs
8 Forfeit Teams Non-Competition (get the kit but won't compete at any regular season event)
215 lost veteran teams (although FRC is posting the highest retention rate ever)
~10% increase in teams
19 countries are participating
(Above emphasis mine)
In a conversation with our Regional Director (NC) I learned that we almost lost 10 teams this year, but 7 of those were convinced to continue. The reason cited was not economic conditions, but rather the state's treatment of teachers (key mentors of those teams choosing to leave the state or leave the teaching profession). I'm wondering if any other states are experiencing similar problems.
PayneTrain
25-12-2013, 00:32
(Above emphasis mine)
In a conversation with our Regional Director (NC) I learned that we almost lost 10 teams this year, but 7 of those were convinced to continue. The reason cited was not economic conditions, but rather the state's treatment of teachers (key mentors of those teams choosing to leave the state or leave the teaching profession). I'm wondering if any other states are experiencing similar problems.
The teacher strike in Ontario is the most obvious example of teacher/government relationships affecting FRC teams, but the general story of school systems in the country not respecting FIRST even at the same level as non-football sports (wrestling, volleyball) has a very big effect on the potential of FIRST teams. While I don't know if it's a topic for discussion here or not, the problems with running a program like FIRST at its various levels and stages isn't as often money as it is people.
Mark McLeod
10-01-2014, 12:23
Big corrections on Tuesday and again on Wednesday have brought the total teams from a high of 2797 on December 10 down to 2733 today.
GaryVoshol
11-01-2014, 07:59
Big corrections on Tuesday and again on Wednesday have brought the total teams from a high of 2797 on December 10 down to 2733 today.
Mark, do you know what the highest team number was before this drop-off?
Also, what is the status of all those teams with numbers 2014xxxx?
Thanks for keeping up with all these stats for us.
Mark McLeod
11-01-2014, 08:33
The highest rookie number has kept slowly climbing through the dropoff, so some of those 2014XXX teams are still picking their events and converting to an officially registered full team. P.S. Only 10 rookie teams have been added since registration closed - roughly 7% of the 2014XXX teams still listed (and other rookies have dropped out).
The highest team number was 5348 before the purge and 5351 right after.
matthewdenny
27-01-2014, 17:53
Is it possible to have a list of the lost veteran teams? Where would I find it?
Mark McLeod
27-01-2014, 19:05
I haven't double checked it, but this is pretty accurate.
Mark McLeod
13-02-2014, 11:31
Down to 2726 teams today.
We seem to be following a pattern what with last years' 2524 teams.
The year before it was 2339, so that breaks the pattern.
27 26 - 25 24 - 23 39
Does anyone know what happened to team 759 from the UK?
They competed every year from 2002-2013 at the NYC regional.
http://www.usfirst.org/whats-going-on/team/83579/?ProgramCode=FRC
xXhunter47Xx
13-03-2014, 19:22
They have a website with contact information on it, why don't you contact them? I'm sure they have a specific reason why.
Mark McLeod
26-03-2014, 08:38
Team registration settled out at 2,710 teams this year playing 4230 times plus more District cmp and World cmp to add-in.
2722 Regional slots taken
482 MI District slots filled
343 NE District slots accounted for
329 PNW District slots used or being used
234 MAR District slots occupied
Championship registration is now about half full from the winners of previous weeks.
Of course, the four district regions won't choose their allotment for another couple of weeks.
The District Championships are already showing a few teams qualified to register there.
George Nishimura
27-03-2014, 13:07
Does anyone know what happened to team 759 from the UK?
They competed every year from 2002-2013 at the NYC regional.
http://www.usfirst.org/whats-going-on/team/83579/?ProgramCode=FRC
I'm not in direct contact with them, but a mentor from our team says they decided to stop competing from lack of interest.
Maldridge422
27-03-2014, 17:23
I'm not in direct contact with them, but a mentor from our team says they decided to stop competing from lack of interest.
Yep, looks like interest and cost. (https://www.studentrobotics.org/teams/HRS) It does appear that they still do competitive robotics though, so thats good!
George Nishimura
27-03-2014, 20:28
Yep, looks like interest and cost. (https://www.studentrobotics.org/teams/HRS) It does appear that they still do competitive robotics though, so thats good!
It's good to know that they still exist in some form. It's a shame they stopped their FRC team this year, it would have been nice to have concentrated our small British contingent in NYC this year (now we're all on our own).
Unfortunately the reality is that the cost (in money, time and inconvenience) for non-North American teams is incredibly high.
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