Re: Registration 2016
 

Its up to each committee.
I signed up for Hawaii yesterday for the waitlist, emailed the RD, they contacted FIRST this morning, and now I am on.
We are also on the waitlist for NY Tech Valley, emailed the RD who I knew from before, and was given some positive information.

Moral of the story-every regional is different in how they go about the specifics of adding teams from the waitlist.........contact the RD for more info.

-Glenn

Re: Registration 2016
 

It is entirely at the planning committee's discretion. Typically rookies get priority but it's not a hard and fast rule.

It's technically the Regional Director's call. Some RDs may choose to include their committees on these decisions. Your mileage may vary.

Re: Registration 2016
 

Weird, Guilford County took a spot off its total count. Went from 31/33 to 31/32 some time in the last 24 hours.

Re: Registration 2016
 

what regionals and districts have open spots still?
so many international teams at canadian regionals and so many canadians at regionals outside of canada

Re: Registration 2016
 

You can see for yourself here: http://173.255.246.196/2016/
Do remember that there are generally more slots than shown that get served out to waitlisted teams, late registering rookies, etc.

Regionals with general admission slots available:
Dates -------------------- Event Name ---------Filled - Left - Total
09-Mar - 12-Mar -- Arkansas Rock City Regional -- 43 ----- 9 ---- 52
16-Mar - 19-Mar -- Utah Regional ----------------- 37 ---- 12 ---- 49
23-Mar - 26-Mar -- North Bay Regional ------------ 30 ----- 8 ---- 38
30-Mar - 02-Apr -- Idaho Regional ---------------- 22 ---- 13 ---- 35
31-Mar - 03-Apr -- Hub City Regional ------------- 40 ----- 3 ---- 43
03-Apr - 06-Apr -- Western Canada Regional ----- 33 ----- 5 ---- 38

Districts showing open spots:
Dates -------------------- Event Name -------------------------------------------------- Filled - Left - Total
18-Mar - 20-Mar -- CHS District - Northern Maryland Event ---------------------------------- 32 ----- 2 ---- 34
17-Mar - 19-Mar -- PCH District - Albany Event ----------------------------------------------- 18 -- 14 -- 32
17-Mar - 19-Mar -- PCH District - Dalton Event ------------------------------------------------ 29 -- 3 -- 32
18-Mar - 20-Mar -- MAR District - Springside Chestnut Hill Event ---------------------------- 27 -- 2 -- 29
18-Mar - 20-Mar -- NE District - UMass-Dartmouth Event ------------------------------------ 30 -- 1 -- 31
24-Mar - 26-Mar -- NE District - Rhode Island Event ------------------------------------------ 33 -- 2 -- 35
18-Mar - 20-Mar -- NC District - UNC Asheville Event ----------------------------------------- 21 -- 15 -- 36
01-Apr - 03-Apr -- NC District - Campbell University/Johnston Community College Event -- 31 -- 1 -- 32
03-Mar - 05-Mar -- PNW District - West Valley Event ------------------------------------------ 34 -- 2 -- 36
24-Mar - 26-Mar -- PNW District - Philomath Event ------------------------------------------- 28 -- 8 -- 36

Re: Registration 2016
 

QCR has already let a team in off of waitlist. A Colombian Rookie team from Medellin, Team 6159.

Re: Registration 2016
 

Knowing how unlikely it is, has an official FRC event ever been run with under 24 teams (less than what makes up eight elimination alliances of three teams each)?

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Yes. The ones I know of are the 2007 Brazil Pilot (15 teams) and the 2008 Brazil Regional (13 teams). Both of these events skipped the Quarterfinals.

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Waterloo 2005 ran with 24 teams, and went with 7 alliances of 3 in the eliminations rounds.

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Why did 3 teams sit out?

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I guess that would imply 1st alliance to have no choice on the last robot, even if that robot isn't working at all

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It also wouldn't allow for any backup robots.

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This happened to us at an offseason event last year. It made for an interesting eliminations with only 21 teams attending the event.

On another note, I cant recall when the system changed to serpentine. That season, it might have been the 7th seed having to choose from the last 4 teams.
Trying to think back to 2005 when we were on a #1 alliance, I still cant remember when we took our 3rd alliance member....

Re: Registration 2016
 

I've always heard that 2006 was the first year of serpentine, after the intro of 3v3 in 05.