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Actually there is 37 teams that are signed up for the Montreal Regional and I believe there are 42 spots...

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Some updated totals heading into the week, so teams chomping at the bit for unrestricted registration day to gaze upon.

As you may notice, Alamo and South Florida closed today, so while you will likely sorta get off the waitlist in these events, no guarantees except what lies beneath.

Week 2
Northern Lights (Duluth, MN) - 7
Hub City (Lubbock, TX)- 34

Week 3
Mexico City - 19

Week 4
Buckeye (Cleveland, OH)- 10

Week 5
Queen City (Cincinnati, OH) - 11
Pittsburgh - 1

Week 6
Western Canada (Calgary, AB) -7
Windsor Essex Great Lakes - 17
Lone Star (Houston, TX) - 21

I wonder what the increase in teams doubling up on traditional regionals looks like this year.

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I don't think it's an increase in double regionals that is causing this. I think, for the mid Atlantic anyway, it's a reduction in local regional slots. It looks like DC and Chesapeake have reduced their field this year. The crunch hurts.

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It seems that many regional planning committees are moving away from the 60 team massive cluster towards a smaller, more manageable number of teams. Atleast this means more matches. 8 matches is not enough to determine proper seeding. The downside is less teams will be able to go to that 2nd or 3rd regional they want to go to.

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LV: '09, oh'10.

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I am now officially worried about Florida FRC this year

As of right now both of our regionals are "full" and we are at 56 teams in the state, last year we had 72 teams.

Now Orlando has had a capacity of 64 teams since 2011 so 9 more spots could be available there, but that still doesn't make up for the fact that we have 16 teams less then last year. What is really shocking is that most of our missing teams are not the usual case of lack of rookie retention, (5 out of our 8 rookies are returning this year) it is our veteran teams that have not registered yet: 59, 665, 1612, 2757, 3376, 3502, 3557, 3611, 3659, 3732, and 3790 all were considered veterans last year and have not registered yet for a competition anywhere.

I would really love to know what happened to the teams above and if anyone can give a hint as to why they might think we have such a hit on our veteran teams. Before it is brought up I am aware that the 3000+ teams hit the 4 year wall this year and you see a lot of teams fold around that time but this seems a little out of the ordinary even for that

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That's definitely part of it. Ideally this is just the one crunch year the region operates under before the jump to the new model (Ideally). On top of that, the changing of dates for some teams probably made them rethink how and where to apply first and second, chucking a bunch of Virginia teams onto their own regional's wait list.

At least the Virginia Regional will be the 65+mecca we know and love this year

*sigh*

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DC and Chesapeake are both in new venues at George Mason University and UMD College Park. This will remove 30+ spots between the two events. Between that and with DC sandwiched in the week between the Maryland and Virginia regional, that doesn't leave a lot of options for DC teams to get a second event.

Wetzel

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Why did they make the change? Were the normal venues unavailable?

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Cost.
They were both in convention centers, which tend to be expensive. The DC venue change will reduce the cost of the event by more than $100k.

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It's worse than just DC teams. Once we got wait listed for the MD event, we started looking at other possibilities. The options were limited. There were only two events within an 8 hour drive from Richmond. MD, DC, VA, NC, SC, GA, TN; every single event in these states were full minutes after 2nd enrollment began. It makes FIRST that much more expensive when you have to factor long distance travel into the equation.

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We passed last seasons total teams (2524) around noon today.
Currently at 2562 2577.

Mostly due to what appears to be some teams coming off waitlists.

Michigan has also added a new District event in Midland, MI.
Two rookies are currently all who are registered there.

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Where is that listed? I don't see it on the FIM site or on the USFIRST events site.

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https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index....age=searchform

Check "FIRST Robotics Competition" and "Events". Extend "List Length" to at least "100" and click "Show results"

ctrl + f "Midland"


(I've had iffy results trying to link to these results in the past)

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It's also the 7th Michigan district event listed here: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...egional-events

Michigan has 252 teams listed. With 13 events they can handle a nominal 260 teams. The added event was inevitable I suppose.

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Interesting, since that now requires a 3rd field.

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Ontario Teams still missing:

From 2013:

1846 - Appeared at QCMO of all places...
2625
2702 - Somehow got into ONWA
3396
3560 - Somehow got into ONTO2
3705 - Appeared at ONTO2
4015
4200
4252 - Appeared at ONTO
4372
4618 - Appeared at ONTO
4659
4678 - Appeared at ONWA and ONWI
4688
4699 - Were registered at GTREast in 2013, but didn't show up.
4727 - Appeared at ONTO
4777 - Somehow got into ONWA
4806
4807
4808

From 2012:

843 - Competed 2002-2012. 2 events per season each season from 2004.
1009 - Competed 2003-2006, 2011-2012, 1 event per season (always at Hershey Center).
1053 - Competed 2003-2012, 1 event per season (Hershey Center)
1221 - Competed 2003-2008, 2010-2012, 1 event per season (Hershey Center), except 2012, when they also played at GTREast.
1514 - Competed 2005-2012, 1 event per season (Hershey Center), except 2012, when they also played at Waterloo
1535 - Split from 1596 in 2007, multiple events per year from 2007-2012.
1605 - Competed 2005-2010, 2012, usually 2 events per year. - Appeared at ONNB
1835 - Competed 2006-2012, 1 event per season (Hershey Center)
2076 - Competed 2007-2009, 2011-2012, 2 events in 2008/2009.
3739
4022
4094
4236
4249
4258
4307
4357
4367

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Gary, I am as surprised as you are but in a different way. Per FiM request on Sunday, I looked into where to have additional events based on team locations and existing district event locations. I made the recommendation to add two locations (Midland/Saginaw and one other to remain nameless for now) and was on the phone until 1am on Monday. To have a place firmed up in a certain week, and FIRST got it listed and registered two rookies in a matter of hours on Monday is amazing to me. I will have Kristen update the FiM as soon as possible. I wasn't expecting it to be so quick which is why you didn't see it on the FiM site. Ed

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Not necessarily, in previous years, MAR had only one field (this year they're getting a new one), and just used on official FIRST field on the week that had two events, so one can assume FiM will do the same the weekend with 3 events(unless they wish to make another field)

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Updated Michigan Stats
(edited post because another team registered while I was typing)

254 teams registered thus far for 2014 (vs. 203 teams in 2013) including...

• 3 Resurrected Veterans
• 1 New Veteran
• 60 Rookie Teams
• 23 Second Year Teams

There are 8 eight digit teams listed, indicating that there's at least a handful of teams still waiting in the wings.

There are currently 13 district events, and Ed Law's post a few replies back implies that there is possibly a 14th district event in the works (good thing, since we appear to be pushing 260 teams, at which point it would be necessary).

If the capacity for the Michigan State Championships remains at 64 as it has been since the advent of districts, the top 25% of teams will be invited to attend (as opposed to the top 31% of teams last season).

The retention rate from 2013 is currently 94%. There are 13 teams still missing that competed last season: 519, 2000, 2137, 2851, 3421, 3640, 3706, 4294, 4478, 4743, 4755, 4834, and 4839. A few of those teams surprise me as they've been very successful as recently as 2013 (notably 2000, 2137, and 2851 all of whom qualified to attend worlds last season). Has anybody heard from any of these teams?

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Unless the school suddenly (and shockingly) decides to field the team, 3421 will not be competing this year. Two mentors and a student are joining a new team in Memphis (5046). The school let go of the lead mentor, the other mentors aren't in a position to step up and take it, and the school is unwilling to let parents take control of the team.

Thankfully we had a sizable number of seniors who graduated and the number of teams in the county has exploded, including one at the high school of the town in which our school was located (we were out of the county's vocational school). The remaining students should be able to join a team at either their home school or one nearby, if interested.



Egad! I'm part of a 5000 team now! :eek:

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Pardon my ignorance, but what is the difference between a "resurrected veteran" and a "new veteran?"

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Resurrected Veterans are teams that have competed in the past, dropped out for one or more seasons, and then returned. New Veterans are teams that have formed from experienced students from an existing team (such as a multi-school team splitting into two teams, or a single school forming additional teams at the same school) that haven't existed in any previous year and are assigned a number with the same rookie year as the original team.

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a new vet is a new team with veteran members. The other is an old team that reformed.

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That's what I thought. Who's our new veteran in Michigan then?

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The New Vet is 3886, which appears to be the sister team to 3767 out of Traverse City West High School. The Resurrected Vets are 1076 out of Ann Arbor (last competed in 2012), 2048 out of Detroit (last competed in 2011), and 3538 out of Auburn Hills (last competed in 2012).

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Reminder that unrestricted registration opens tomorrow. Who else is planning on signing up for another (or even their first) regional?

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We're probably good with our two events, as it will cost us too much money and it's not worth going to a third event for us (logistics and financially would be hard for us). Hopefully they start clearing some of the waitlists after tomorrow.

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Probably going to sign up for our home regional, Lone Star.

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Really cool to see you guys coming to Orlando.

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Any updates on waitlists that are being cleared?

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I had several of my teams sign up for a third event in the hope that we will make it off the waitlist at one of the two events after our home event.

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Teams are moved off of the wait lists by the RD and other key members in the region or district. So in the case of MAR and PNW districts they wait lists have been cleared. Many regionals have also cleared their wait lists.

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FiM might want to start thinking about splitting in two in a few years, if that growth continues.

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Noooooooooooo. It would be so much harder to look up district stats if I couldn't just hit 'Michigan' and be all set. Unless FIRST updates their databases to be searchable by district, then go for it ;)

(The winky face is a "just kidding" because I'm certain the question of splitting FiM into two districts requires significantly more serious consideration that the ease of looking up district stats.)

Also, FiM is currently at 279 teams, plus a couple hidden on waitlists and four temporary eight digit team numbers that appeared today. I'm going to wait until after the payment deadline (and for the team list to level out after any teams drop out) to post a final update since I feel like I'm close to hitting "thread cluttering" level.

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In RIMS there is the option to search by district but that was added very recently so it may filter down to the general public site. On the other hand since it is intended for the general public then they may want to keep it searchable by state since someone from the true general public wouldn't know where the boundaries were. On the other other hand in Texas when you are looking up contacts there are options for East, West and Central Texas w/o stating any boundaries.

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They have a pretty sweet deal with operating a State Championship that is also the most successful FRC-sanctioned event outside of THE Championship Event, so I don't think they would split the state. I could expect them to somehow add another level of competition at some point between the district and MSC. I might have heard Jim talk about that last night.

Maybe you divide the state into 5 "sections" or "divisions" that each have 4 of their own districts. Then you earn points in your districts to move onto your divisional round, then to the state championship. It's like in college basketball where you play a regular season, then are placed into a division in the NCAA tournament, and then you move on to the Big Dance? I don't know.

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Or add another state to the mix?

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Well, with Indiana and Illinois likely forming a district, it looks like Wisconsin is the only bordering state free. ;)

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Upper peninsula teams are always complaining that the drive to their districts is longer than to the Wisconsin Regional! Though there's a UP district this year, for the first time

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You got that right. Duluth is 4 hours from us, Milwaukee is 5.5, Twin Cities ~6.

Traverse City ... 7. Everything other district event from before this year is even farther.

So, the Escanaba event at only 3 hours from Houghton is a nice treat.

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Texas would like to welcome FRC Teams # 4801 & 4802 from Australia, and FRC Team # 5270 From Istanbul, Turkey to the Hub City Regional. I hope they get a lot of frequent flyer miles!

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48 got in to Wisconsin off the waitlist - looking forward to it!

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Great to hear you got in!

(Although, maybe we would be more welcoming if you decided to bench all your starters in fantasy footbal this week ;) )

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Just wondering, do North American regionals offer to help offset costs for teams from other countries? I heard that Hawaii helped out mainland teams in 2008 with some costs so they could attend.

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Western Canada Regional did this last year, the only one I remember.

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I'd be really curious if they come. I know the Australian teams often sign up for regionals to get their kits but then dont attend due to logistics.

Colorado has a team from the UAE this year too I believe.

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The reports of our demise are greatly exaggerated...We are currently wait listed at both our district events because we opted out of our "home" event. Thus Michigan doesn't have us officially participating yet. Centerline and Livonia

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I talked to a mentor from 2000 @ MSC.
She wasn't feeling very good about Team Rock coming back this season.

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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.

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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.

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Thanks. Now that you say that, that is what I heard. I knew it was something along those lines though. :p

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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.

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Can someone explain how a team could be 3 years older and have a number difference of 54

Thanks!

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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.

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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.

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Crossed the 2700 team milestone this morning.

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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.

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Midland's name also has been changed to: Great Lakes Bay Region FIRST Robotics District Competition

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Not to be competitive or anything, but according to this 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?

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Link

If they have and 8-digit number, they (I believe) are in the interim prior to registering for an event.

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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

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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. :)

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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

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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.

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I am pretty sure Mark has that data. :cool:

Several years ago, I took a whack at listing US states ranked by number of FRC teams per million residents.

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Does anyone know which regionals have open spots left ?

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Hub City (4 spaces) and Mexico City (15 spaces) look to be the only ones left. Everything else looks to be wait listed.

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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)

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Technically, a bunch more aren't at capacity, but those are just the hidden future waitlist spots/rookie spots.

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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.

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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.

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http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...egional-events
Just noticed this today. Does anyone know what it is for?

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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 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.

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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.

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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.

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Here's the only team listed so far:

Blacktown, NSW, Australia
Blacktown Boys High School
4801


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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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%)

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Do your 2013 numbers include District Championships/World Championship?

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They did before, but not now.
I went back to matching numbers from comparable time periods.

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Can you exclude districts and give the same numbers for teams outside of them?

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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...

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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.

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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.

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FRC has another new country!

Rookie team 5311, the Space Cookies of Colombia, from Bogota, Colombia, registered for Silicon Valley.

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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

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This is the single greatest achievement in FRC history.

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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?

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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.

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Still waiting on Troy, it's our only hope for a second regional for three of my teams.

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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).

Re: Registration 2014
 

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.