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I know a lot of rural teams (I haven't counted, but you could probably consider half of MN teams to be rural). While finding funding is difficult for them, I think sustaining that funding once they get it is actually a little easier.

Teams from big cities (like the Twin Cities) derive most of their funding from 1-3 large grants from large companies. Those companies rely on selling products nation- or world-wide. When tough times hit, those companies pull back and those teams they support have a large amount of money to make up from other sources.

In contrast, more rural teams don't really have access to those large companies. They get donations from smaller companies, from the community, and from concerns that are much more local. Their funding comes, generally, in smaller chunks - instead of having a company give them 10k, they might have 10 companies that give 1k each. So if one of those companies backs off, they then have much less money to make up.

So yes, the expiry of rookie grants can hurt them a lot, if they didn't spend that year setting up a solid base for themselves. But once they have that base, I wouldn't expect any sort of mass-exodus from rural areas. Those teams are just too spread out, and their funding is too spread out, to be affected all at once like that. Teams from cities, on the other hand, could be - imagine if a large company decided to stop giving to teams. That could affect a dozen teams or more, all at once, all in the same small area!

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FRC registration seems to have peaked yesterday at 3180 teams and is now starting to fall back. If the past remains an accurate guide, then it'll fluctuate a bit more up until the December holiday break, before it slowly falls off up until the first event.
Last season the fall lost 33 teams.

It's at 3176 this morning.

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FIRST, I'll apologize for this post being a tangent.

I see these numbers and all I can think of teams I know and have interacted with: Blaise of Glory (3180), Killer Bees (33), and Purple Precision (3176)

Great to see over 3000 teams and the reach expanding every year!

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For whatever reason, Central Illinois is still showing 30 teams. That was where they stopped before clearing their waitlist. They had 39 teams last year, so the number might go up yet again.

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Here's an accounting of the increase/decrease in teams each Regional event has, as of today, over last season's final head counts.
For the new events I just entered zero.
I see 33 at Central Illinois right now.

Mexico City is the double digit winner.
Utah is the double digit loser.
It's an increase across Regionals of 33 teams, plus the new regionals (+225), and without the 2015 Regionals turned to Districts (-332).

-2 ---- Palmetto Regional
0 ----- Greater Toronto Central Regional
1 ----- San Diego Regional
-1 ---- Northern Lights Regional
0 ----- Lake Superior Regional
5 ----- Greater Toronto East Regional
17 ---- Mexico City Regional
-7 ---- Arkansas Rock City Regional
8 ----- Arizona North Regional
0 ----- Los Angeles Regional sponsored by The Roddenberry Foundation
0 ----- Orlando Regional
3 ----- Greater Kansas City Regional
3 ----- St. Louis Regional
-3 ---- Greater Pittsburgh Regional
4 ----- Alamo Regional sponsored by Rackspace Hosting
-1 ---- Central Valley Regional
0 ----- New York City Regional
7 ----- Israel Regional
0 ----- Australia Regional
-6 ---- Central Illinois Regional
-4 ---- Bayou Regional
-2 ---- New York Tech Valley Regional
3 ----- Buckeye Regional
-11 --- Utah Regional
-3 ---- North Bay Regional
0 ----- Rocket City Regional
4 ----- Sacramento Regional
-1 ---- Ventura Regional
0 ----- Colorado Regional
0 ----- Iowa Regional
0 ----- Finger Lakes Regional
-3 ---- Oklahoma Regional
-6 ---- Dallas Regional
-5 ---- Wisconsin Regional
2 ----- Waterloo Regional
2 ----- FRC Festival de Robotique - Montreal Regional
0 ----- Orange County Regional
1 ----- South Florida Regional
1 ----- Hawaii Regional
0 ----- Idaho Regional
-4 ---- Midwest Regional
5 ----- Las Vegas Regional
-1 ---- SBPLI Long Island Regional
9 ----- Queen City Regional
-1 ---- Smoky Mountains Regional
2 ----- Hub City Regional
2 ----- Western Canada Regional
4 ----- Windsor Essex Great Lakes Regional
1 ----- Arizona West Regional
5 ----- Silicon Valley Regional presented by Google.org
0 ----- Minnesota 10000 Lakes Regional
0 ----- Minnesota North Star Regional
5 ----- Lone Star Regional

Re: Registration 2016
 

For whatever reason the new FIRST site's Team and Event search has the event numbers locked, if you go to the archived site and the legacy FRC Event site then it shows the correct number of teams registered. I noticed this first with QCR, it shows 51 on the new search and 56 on the legacy search.

Edit: I suspect the new site uses a new database and the developers made a copy of the Event database vs. Mirroring it and TIMS is still linked to the old database for Registration.

Re: Registration 2016
 

The new team & event database has several things to be aware of.

• It keeps teams listed that dropped out up to three years ago, so team counts reflect teams that registered any time in the past four years, e.g., team 1203 who last played in 2013.
  
• The most recent rookies are still listed by a temporary number instead of their already assigned permanent number, e.g. team 6195 is still listed in the new database as team 201600651
  
• Pre-rookie ghost teams are listed, but not signed up for any events, and probably won't be.
  
• As Jimmy noted, event team lists are not up-to-date

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It looks like FIRSTinspires caught up with a lot of the event roster changes to the old domain this past Saturday.

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Fell back below 3170 teams now.

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We're still waitlisted for the NC Guilford district. Any other teams been notified of recieving spots in an out-of-distrct tournament?

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Have you heard anything? 234 and 1501 showed up on the team list for Guilford this morning and I would guess there's still room for 5188.

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According to frclinks 5188 is on the roster for Guilford now.

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Yup, we were notified on Monday that we got a spot. TIMS just didn't update until today.

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Glad to see other Indiana Teams going to this event. Are any other teams from IN planning on going to Guilford beside 234, 1501, and 5188?

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A follow up question to this would be are there any other Indiana teams going out of state to play?