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Started with 5 and filled up in two minutes.

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AMEN...This is not criticism - per se - because I do think that FIRST does an awesome job dealing with the volume of requests, but with the average team wishing to attend two regionals, and the fact that many were full before today, it becomes very difficult to create an economical logistic travel plan under the current constraints. Not sure what the answer is, but I'm sure the combined brainpower can come up with some improvements.

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3 minutes, I was on at 12:03 and it was full. Looks like there are a lot of teams from different states/countries coming. How diverse.

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Finger Lakes is full now too; 37 New York teams, 2 Florida teams, and 1 Canada team.

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Inland Empire filled up in just a couple of minutes.

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Snapshot of open spots at 1230

Week 1
Alamo - 8

Week 2
Arkansas - 14
Northern Lights - 22
Hub City - 40!
Central Valley - 1

Week 3
Mexico City - 19
Dallas - 1
Utah - 11

Week 4
Buckeye - 20
Wisconsin - 6

Week 5
North Bay - 7
Queen City - 19
Oklahoma - 3
Pittsburgh - 6

Week 6
Western Canada - 11
Windsor Essex Great Lakes - 18
Colorado - 5
South Florida - 15
Bayou - 10
Las Vegas - 16
Lone Star - 35

Wetzel

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Actually, less than that. We were waitlisted at 12:02.

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I'm pretty sure this same problem happened in the Southeast last year, resulting in a bunch of 64+ team events. TO remedy the bunching up from last year, two of the events are in a smaller venue, there are more teams, there are more teams that can afford two regionals, and there are no new events.

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Interesting that Lake Superior filled so quickly relative to Northern Lights. Teams must be scared of 359:ahh: .

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Most of those teams register for their second and tertiary regionals before signing up for houston. Yeah we see you all signed up for Dallas ;)

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Agreed, I also don't want to criticize FIRST, where the people are doing a really great job.

I think it would be best if the online system accepted a round of bids with our top 3 or so choices. That would, of course, require a bunch of work to setup, and then somehow the bids would have to get translated into who actually gets into the events. That algorithm would get scrutinized and criticized, because some tough choices would need to be made about who gets the limited number of spots in crowded events. And it would require 2-3 rounds of bids. I can see why they aren't doing it that way given the work and the difficulties that would be involved. But it would be better if done well.

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Chesapeake was full at 12:05. wait listed

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I'm personally looking forward to Districts in Ontario next year, and specifically the Provincial Championship (if thats the plan...).

Its going to be odd not competing with/against 1114 and 2056 at the Regional level this year, seeing two of the best teams in the world at every Ontario regional is always inspiring to me. If only they could attend every Ontario regional :P

But on the flip-side, the regionals without one of 1114/2056 are going to be fascinating in exposing the great depth of talented teams in Ontario. I expect winners of GTRW and North Bay are going to come from lower seeded alliances that put together very complimentary alliances.

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Anyone have a good idea of how many total teams Palmetto will be taking this year?

54 teams are registered. It looks like 68 teams attended last year from what I can find. Just wondering about our chances of getting in off of the wait list.

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10 is the standard waitlist size. I'd normally assume that if you got on the waitlist right as it filled up you would be good, but it gets harder each year.