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Mark,

Can you provide a table of how many teams are competing in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc events ?

It is what I'd call the breadth versus depth analysis.
hmmm, comparing districts and old fashioned regionals' is a little different in that regard.

Ed

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You mean like this?

Event Week --- All -- District -- Regional
week 1 ------- 610 --- 265 ------ 345
week 2 ------- 464 --- 241 ------ 223
week 3 ------- 727 --- 252 ------ 475
week 4 ------- 768 --- 286 ------ 482
week 5 ------- 826 --- 294 ------ 532
week 6 ------- 666 --- 101 ------ 565
week 7 ---------- 0 ------ 0 ---------- 0
week 9 --------- 28 ----- 0 ---------- 0

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Pretty sure he was looking for counts of teams participating in multiple events, not how many per week.

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Oh, I see now.
I have that on a computer at home.
I'll post it when I get back around dinner time (ET).

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No District Championship or World CMP included:

(3) 4 events
(52) 3 events
(1094) 2 events
(1705) 1 event

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Are you able to pull out regional only teams? My school district is interested in knowing how many other teams do 2 regional events.

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Total teams = 2854
Regional teams = 2014 (71%)
District teams = 840 (29%)


Regional teams only, no District teams:

• (37) 3 events
• (513) 2 Events
• (1464) 1 event

District Teams Only:

• (3) 4 events
• (15) 3 events
• (581) 2 events
• (241) 1 event (I assume mostly waitlisted)

Districts sending teams out to play at Regionals:

• (1) Indiana
• (1) New England
• (8) MAR
• (11) Michigan

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that too is interesting data, but what I meant but didn't explain well is this,

all teams participate in 1 event
many teams are in 2 events
a bundle are in 3 events
only a few are in 4 events.


so how many is "all", "many", "a bundle" and "only a few"..........

in other words what is the 'play' distribution'

if you are in the district system, you get more 'play'

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Well if you add up all his data:

All(1705)
Many(1094)
A Bundle(52)
A Few(3)

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Or possibly he means:

• All = 2854
• Many (All-1705) = 1149
• Bundle (Many-1094) = 55
• Few (Bundle-52) = 3

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Mark,

Do you have the current numbers of how many teams are in each of the district systems? It's interesting to me that MAR seems to have a much higher percentage of teams registered for outside regionals than the other four district systems (possibly even combined?).

(P.S. Thanks for providing all this data every year! :D)

EDIT:
After doing some quick calculations, it appears that 11 out of the 120 MAR teams are currently traveling to outside regionals in 2015, which is 9.17% of all MAR teams. Meanwhile, 8 of the 350(?) FiM teams are registered for outside regionals, or 2.29% of all FiM. Which that data, and the fact that there are only 1 NE FIRST team, 1 Indiana Team, and 0 PNW teams also attending outside regionals, it would appear that MAR has not only a greater percentage of teams competing at outside regionals than any other district system, but also a larger percentage than all of the other district systems combined.

EDIT 2:
Mark corrected me below, I switched up the amount of MAR and FiM teams traveling out-of-district for 2015. But the fact still stands, there are more MAR teams competing at outside regionals in 2015 than from all of the other district systems combined.

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Interesting,,,,, thanks for the data

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You transposed some numbers, but you're still right.

District - # teams - # outside events - % playing outside
FIM ------- 351 ------------- 11 --------------- 3.13%
MAR ------ 120 -------------- 8 ---------------- 6.67%
NE -------- 167 -------------- 1 ---------------- 0.60%
PNW ------ 149 -------------- 0 ---------------- 0.00%
IN ---------- 53 -------------- 1 ---------------- 1.89%


MAR - 6.67% vs everyone else - 5.62%

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I would hazard a guess that it's due to the proximity of outside regionals to MAR and MAR teams vs. everywhere else.

PNW: Nearest regional event for PNW teams would be Utah, SVR, or Sacramento, all a full day's driving for the nearest PNW teams.
MI: Sure, you've got MN (Duluth x 2), Toronto (x 2), North Bay, Milwaukee, Midwest, and Queen City within a "reasonable" drive, depending where you are in the state. But those are all a bit of a drive, particularly westbound (MN, WI, Midwest), or across the border (the three Canadian events). Indiana has district events, if you can get in.
NE: You've got NYC, Long Island, and Tech Valley as possibilities, maybe Finger Lakes if you want to push it a bit. All are rather crowded events. Montreal is cross-border; anything beyond NY is getting into MAR territory and thus dependent on the goodwill of the good folks in MAR and their open spots.
IN: Could probably make Midwest or Queen City in about a day, not so sure about anything beyond that.
MAR: You only have NYC, Long Island, Tech Valley (north part of the area), Pittsburgh, DC, Virginia, and Chesapeake within a nice easy drive.

tl;dr: MAR just has more regionals handy. MI has IN districts (and vice versa) or crossing the border; NE has to contend with NY teams at their nearest events; PNW doesn't have much of anything anywhere near their boundaries.



Hey, Mark: Is anybody taking the plunge for the title of "First Cross-District Play" yet?

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There are literally zero MAR teams at any of those events.

4 MAR teams are in South Florida
1 is in Orlando
1 is in Las Vegas
1 is in Montreal
And 1 is in Waterloo

All of these teams are traveling very far. Two are even leaving the country (and they are the closest ones!)