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4 events = 125

The attachment lists the sixty 3-event teams.

Only four Regionals show open registration slots, although waitlists on the others remain unknown.
2 -- Arkansas Rock City Regional
3 -- Arizona North Regional
12 - Idaho Regional
18 - Western Canada Regional

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If I were to guess, a good amount of the teams going to 3 events at this point are the ones pre-qualified for Worlds by winning Chairmans at a previous Championship, winning Einstein, or winning Engineering Inspiration in their division.

https://www.thebluealliance.com/event/2017cmpmo
https://www.thebluealliance.com/event/2017cmptx

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I didn't count Championship signups, just regular events.

Eventually, District Championships and the two World Championships will up the total, but that'll be months from now.

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It seems like all District events went to waitlist status before opening for cross-district registration.
That was 100 open slots.

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How many of them reached waitlist not because of new sign-ups but because they lowered the capacity? I know CHS lowered capacities to match their current registration.

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I'm double checking now, but most of the slots that disappeared were in Ontario.

P.S.
Every district went to zero before cross-district registration.
The only event that added a team was NE- Greater Boston

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It wasn't to match current registration but to match the size events venues could handle. Last year had a few venues that were much too tight.

Lower registration numbers just make it easier to not add an eighth event.

Late registering teams isn't a huge factor from what I understand as the lower limits were set before registration began.

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Last night events were showing open slots and higher capacities. This morning the capacities had been lowered so that all CHS (and apparently other districts as well) showed 0 capacity. This includes events like CHS Blacksburg, which only has 29 teams registered and yesterday was showing 7 open slots, and ONT Victoria Park, which is currently sitting at only 22 teams registered (beneath the 24 required for a full elimination round bracket). It appears someone at FIRST wanted all Inter-District registrations to occur via the wait list process.

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There have been a lot of teams (59) added to FIM events since 3 or 4 o'clock this afternoon.
They've all been waitlisted district events since Oct 14.

P.S.
124 total added to FIM events by the next morning.

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No surprise there. I don't know how you guys do it. Just building a robot that can survive that much play is amazing

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We can't help ourselves. With additional District events being reasonably cheap, and most of our events occurring Fri-Sun, we can compete more frequently without heavy financial or school absence burden.

-Brando

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Texas added five teams from the waitlist or late registrations.
We're waitlist locked right now, so it takes RD/FIRST action now to add new teams.

Probably ~200+ more teams will add in, including the whole country of Israel.

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The Pittsburgh Regional opened up a bunch of free slots that had been on their waitlist. Apparently they want to encourage more teams to apply.

We're at 3174 teams. Things seized up a bit when so many events became waitlist locked.

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Also keep in mind the Israeli district hasn't opened up yet either, which will give a nice boost to team count.

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If any of you registered Buckeye folks want to transfer over to Pittsburgh to make room for us at Buckeye, that would be SWELL. ;) :cool: