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1676 is registered for NJ and VA
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There are scattered test teams strewn through the FIRST database, so when we get total teams back from a query it isn't always correct.
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Here is where Regional registration stands after 2nd registration has settled.
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I've noticed that 121 hasn't signed up for any events. Anyone have any details?
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At least one event has started to register teams off the waitlist. Both 48 and 2010 received notice of DC registration today.
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In my post of the Regional counts earlier, negative numbers indicate teams that have been moved off the waitlist. Onesies and twosies appear to be rookies, while large numbers seem to be everyone who was cooling their heels on the waitlist. Since that posting DC, San Diego, 10K Lakes, and North Star have all moved additional teams off their waitlists. A couple of regional team counts have also gone down as teams switched events or dropped out altogether. P.S. Quote:
(9) from circa 1998, including 47, 65 & 121 (8) from 1999 (7) from 2000 (12) from 2001 (10) from 2002 (14) from 2003 (23) from 2004 (31) from 2005 (38) from 2006 etc. See a general pattern here :) Probably about half of those now missing won't return this season. The other half are just late signing up, or are invisible on a waitlist somewhere. |
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From the FIRST website, there are 1497 Registered Team so far.
This is a net reduction of about 180 teams from 2009. With 148 new teams, and 22 returning teams (teams that did not compete in 2009), that means 372 (22%) of the 2009 teams are not yet in for 2010. |
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I'd bet its the economy.
Hawaii has just 2 out of State teams sign up so far. That is a huge drop in just its 3rd year. |
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Could Mark, Chris, or anyone else post the list of veteran teams that have not registered yet? Just wondering.
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It's not quite as bad as all that.
Although growth is down by maybe half under last year, certainly due to economic reasons. We (Team 358) did chose WPI over DC because it's so much cheaper for us, so Glenn must be seeing similar fallout. Registration (1501) is currently ahead of last year at this same time by about 8%, or you can think of it as being 10 days ahead of last year. Most of the gain over last year is actually due to veteran teams returning, rather than rookies. I'll add the list of missing teams as an attachment to this post around lunchtime when I'll have some time away from work. I don't want to inadvertantly, through no fault of my own, qualify for the Autodesk signup... Attached (now) is the list of 357 missing teams that played last year. Based on one past report at this time, there are probably another ~30 teams that registered, but don't yet show up on the full list of teams. Some, such as 10 Long Island teams, are just invisible because they are sitting on our local regional waitlist. Of course other teams, e.g., Israel, are traditionally late in registering. Teams 47 and 65 are only there because they merged into a new team. Here's what the chart looks like so far... |
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Thanks Mark.
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Just based on a quick glance of the list, I see 100 rookie numbers from 2009...scary.
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Looks like it's midway between the '06 and '07 registration numbers. That'd give us roughly 296 new teams this year, so maybe it'll peak at 300. New teams at this same registration point in time:
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rookie teams are like kids - making them is easy but raising them to maturity can kill you |
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9 resurrected vets have returned so far this year. The final count for missing vets over the past several years:
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Texas is still missing 18 teams that were rookies last year, trailing other areas. Last season there was only a single 2008 Texas rookie that didn't return. Here are counts of just the 2009 rookies, by area, that haven't signed on for 2010 yet: Code:
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Our team is hosting a potential rookie teams workshop this weekend.
We're hoping to get about 7 new Hawaii FRC teams in the mix. 2024 is coming back under their old no. 1056. We will be with them in Japan next week for a VEX tournament. ;) On second thought, maybe teams are cutting back on long distance regionals they attend due to the economy. The NASA grant is a great support for registration fees. I hope that continues indefinitely...... |
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Thank you, Mark!
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Thanks for all this information Mark, it just gives even more backing to why I started EWCP last year (also caused by your data). Wayne is so right, right now rookie teams mean barely anything to me when I see how many veterans (some of them long time veterans) have not returned for the new season.
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Are there any spots that will be filled at Boston? I'm hoping to see Gael Force get a spot.
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In a normal year it looks like 7 rookies +/- 2 would be average. I'd need a larger set or I'd have to know your region better. Your Regional Director should have a good idea. I'd imagine the press to recruit new teams dropped off after the huge increase in new teams exhausted your volunteers last year. #teams = total #rookies = new teams #post-rookies = rookies the year before, who returned #missing post-rookies = rookies from the year before who didn't return Code:
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You should probably post a copy of that email as a new thread in CDs
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I finally took time for a closer look at our new teams so far.
This is just from looking at the team list and the schools/locales. Everyone knows about: 51 - merger of 47 & 65Several other schools played before under other numbers.
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On the South Carolina Front 1618 is out for 2010 and is joining forces with 2815.
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I copied some wrong numbers earlier in the Texas team totals.
The total teams hailing from Texas were take from a subtotal column, instead of a totals column. Here's the corrected version. Sorry about that. Quote:
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This Boeing sponsored second year veteran team is based at Normandy High School in St. Louis. 2009 was their third rookie season. Their second rookie season was 2003 as FRC 1210. (ref) Their first rookie season was 1996, before FRC teams had permanent numbers. That team was sponsored by Emerson Electric and had participants from Cardinal Ritter College Prep and Normandy HS. (ref) |
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Made it past the 200 new team mark today.
81% of last year's teams have re-registered, leaving 19% still missing. About 325 teams from last year haven't been heard from (not counting the teams we do know about that have merged or renumbered). More total teams (1346) have now returned this year, than returned last year (1336). 14 past veterans teams have rejoined us (about normal results for the past decade) after being out of competition for:
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Just curious on your missing teams data.
From Indiana I know of TWO teams that are "registered" but don't shown up on any regional list yet (in TIMS) because they are on a wait list for Boilermaker. They aren't registered for any other regional. Are your numbers based on what you see in TIMS? If so, there maybe other teams like the Indiana teams that have only signed up for their local regional but stuck on a wait list. It would be nice if we could see the wait list teams. :-) |
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The talleys I quote are taken purely from the reported TIMS numbers, so year-to-year comparisons remain somewhat constant and can be repeated by others without special knowledge being required. That way the news is always better than what I've been reporting.:) Some waitlists have already been cleared by their Regional Directors (looks like: Seattle, DC, Minnesota, and all the Michigan district events have cleared their waitlists), while others keep teams languishing waiting to see which rookie teams form. Mike Betts got a look at all the regional waitlists two year's ago at this same time and there were 33 teams event-wide that had registered but didn't show up. http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...6&postcount=48 Based on the two teams you know about, it seems like Boilermaker has an estimated 5 slots remaining unclaimed in case anyone wants to sign up... |
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Indiana teams have done well there in past years. :) |
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Afternoon results: Palmetto is now at initial capacity, probably no waitlist to speak of yet if you want to sign up. P.P.S. Lone Star is also now (11-06-09, 9am) at initial capacity. It appears we had a spurt of teams "join" in and the Minnesota waitlists were cleared around 11:00am Central time/noon Eastern time. Both MN regionals are now at 62 teams each, and the number of registered Minnesota teams jumped from 91 to 101, so 10 were on the waitlist.
Unrestricted Registration opens at noon today, so before that changes things here are the registration totals by location. A bunch of the Missing teams are just late in registering, e.g., most Israeli teams usually show up just before registration closes, Texas is busy with the BEST competition. One Long Island team just registered yesterday, but won't show up because they are sitting on the SBPLI waitlist. Registered = total Missing = # teams that played last year, but don't yet show up on the TIMS rolls (these include at least a dozen teams we know about that are still on waitlists for probably their only regional). New = includes rookies, new teams with veteran members, renumbered/merged teams too. Resurrected Vets = teams that sat out a few years, some of them have gotten new rookie #'s, but aren't counted in the new team totals. Code:
. Registered Missing New Resurrected VetsI added a simple guess at the final capacity of each venue based on the initial capacity (some adjusted) plus a 10 slot reserve (15 for districts). Some venues, e.g. DC, are capable of holding much more than my simple estimate, but all this is up to the Regional Directors and what their plans can handle. None of this takes into account teams already on waitlists for many of these events, for instance, Boilermaker and SBPLI Long Island waitlists seem to be full. Code:
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Looks like Boston cleared their waitlist.
Arizona has reached its advertised capacity too. I count 2245 slots filled by 1640 teams (including that one non-team:)). That doesn't take account of the many remaining on waitlists of course. If my math is close that means:
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As of this morning registration (1682) officially passed last year's total teams (1677).
127 more teams than were registered at this time last season, and 20 days ahead of last year's signup. Part of the latest increase has been due to waitlist releases, as well as, rookies finally signing up.
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A balance point of sorts has been reached:
230 new teamsOne will continue to decrease while the other increases.vs230 teams missing from last season It looks like we might break 1800 total teams this season. We've surpassed 1994 in net number of teams gained (20) - all resurrected vets since the new and missing teams balance each other out. Of course, back then that represented a 76% increase, while for 2010 that's a 1.2% increase. Team 121 has registered. Of the lower number teams we are still missing:
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It looks as though Hawaii will probably fill up. We just added ours today.:D Surprising not many West Coast teams this time around. |
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Clarification on the 2010 Championship Wait List came out in an email blast (directed to teams already on the waitlist).
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...816#post882816 We're past 1700 teams. Las Vegas reached published capacity too. |
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Thanks for the great updates Mark !
The team list is growing quickly, we are now at 1736 teams. Regional capacity is coming soon. Most all the events are waitlist registration. St. Louis, Waterloo & GTR have the largest # of open spots. Bayou and Wisconsin only have a handful of spots open. |
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Thanks for posting Andrew, I got distracted by the FRC Records thread.
P.S. Bayou is now at advertised capacity (5pm, 11/21). 2359 competition slots are filled. The Minnesota events are completely full, waitlisted teams now need someone to drop out before they can get in. Dallas has squeezed in a few more than I guessed they would handle. Don't forget Hawaii also has one published slot still open, plus probably 10 reserved spots. Waterloo has one open capacity, but has changed to 26 slots available from it's original 20. Israel too has a lot of spots remaining. A half dozen Israel teams registered in just the past day. Colorado and Chesapeake filled in just the last couple of days. Actually, there are a few events (Kansas, WPI, Oklahoma) where teams have dropped out bringing the current total of players below the original published open capacity. Now, that doesn't mean that there aren't teams salivating on and overflowing the waitlists. Only 4 more working days for registration, since it closes a couple of days earlier than in past seasons. I expect registration will be flat over the weekend and over the extended US Thanksgiving weekend, but rise sharply on the regular working days. Michigan events still have their "2nd Registration" coming up on December 1, so expect a surge to fill the remaining open slots at the district events there. After registration closes, teams remaining on waitlists will be moved off and will keep appearing on the registered rolls up through the middle of December. After that teams start to dwindle off all the way up through the start of competition. The total registered typically drops by roughly 25 teams from the peak in mid-December. |
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Ballwin, MO USA Parkway West High School 1609 1981 - I am fairly certain it was combined with 1723. The school and most of the students switched districts after the team was created, and 1723 carries the district name. 1992 - Combined with 1782? 1996 - Combined with 1785, which has changed it's affiliation to "Blue Springs School District" to reflect this. 2167 - When registration opened for KC, there were three or four teams registered to this school, at least. All have since been removed. 2799 - "Van Horn @ East High School" opened up last year because KC needed a place to put the kids that were affected by the boundary change that affected 1981. Edit: Ones missing from KC confirmed to not be participating this year per KC FIRST list: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...=78490&page=11 |
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1776 has folded due to the lead teacher changing schools.
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Okay, it's Thanksgiving. I'm waiting for a turkey to cook. It's too wet out to rake leaves. Everyone arrived home early in the morning, so they're mostly still asleep, and I need something to keep me busy.
Registration closes in four days, except Michigan third event registration opens on December 2.
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It's good to see despite a seeming overabundance of teams last year in MN (60), only 5 have folded. That's a good retention rate, seems MN's creating fairly sustainable teams.
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Now, if that team were to split...would it be dividing by zero?
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A second team from Turkey registered today.
Team 3390 is from Ankara. The missing Israeli teams dropped to 8. Over the next week I expect the total count will rise above 1800, then fall back below it again continuing to retract over the next month or two as FIRST works with teams to get them on-board. It'll probably end up somewhere around 1780 teams for a net gain of a little more than 100 over last year. Over the weekend FIRST added about 5 new team 0's, before the staff came back from the US Thanksgiving holiday and fixed those. I count 4 Michigan teams that are also attending regionals out-of-state- 49, 217, 288, 815. P.S. 4 more new Michigan teams have joined us. |
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Sorry, about that.
I'm serving on jury duty for several weeks and I've been out of touch and a little rushed. Doesn't seem to be any movement yet on the Michigan 3rd district signups. At least no more teams have been added to the event team lists. Registration has coasted up to 1808 right now. FIRST noticed that fake team 156 and removed it, so the Championship list now reflects the actual 166 teams signed up, and BAE dropped by 1 when they lost that fake team. |
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Up to 1817 now.
We are missing the same number of veteran teams that we lost last year (163), which actually puts the retention rate up ~1% over last season. 1514 teams have returned from last year. Right now retention, at 91.7% (adjusted to include 24 returnees), is the second best it has been in the history of FRC. Only 2003 had a higher retention rate (92%). There are 279 new teams (including 51). There are three teams from Turkey now: 2905 and rookies 3390 & 3406. Looks like a bunch of events moved teams off their wait lists too. |
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Thats great! Even through a recession we can retain teams at a high rate! It shows that maybe people are starting to get that we need Science and Technology education even more than before.
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Minnesota's numbers have officially blown up in the past few years, they went from just a handful to over 100 (4th largest state IIRC) in 3 years.
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26 events updated their attendance lists today, pulling teams off the wait lists.
St. Louis dropped their open capacity to the current 35 teams. They still had almost 20 additional slots advertised before that. Israel has almost filled up with only 4 open slots showing. A smattering of other events show one or two open spaces. No change in the Michigan lists reflecting any team 3rd events yet. They did add one more team though for 138. 1824 teams showing. If it follows past history the overall team list could continue climbing for a couple of more days until the fallout from teams not able to raise last minute funds start to decimate a handful of hopefuls.
Resurrected vets include: 751, 814, 1015, 1056, 1065, 1221, 1372, 1457, 1610, 1695, 1863, 1949, 1951, 2049, 2203, 2213, 2232, 2566, 2598, 3135, 3146(last played 13 years ago before team numbers were assigned), 3165, 3171, 3200, 3332. Some of these teams have chosen to take new numbers. |
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I'm back from several weeks of jury duty and can now return to this...
Registration reached a peak of 1826 teams 9 days after registration officially closed and is now gradually being whittled down as teams drop out due to lack of funds/students/mentors/administration support. A few new teams add-in regularly too. It's drifted down to 1815 currently and will probably drift gradually lower all the way up to regionals. It bobs up and down one or two every day. (It's bobbing today everytime I go look: 1816, 1815, 1817, 1820,...) A lot more is happening that the total reflects. For instance, on Monday the team total dropped from 1822 teams down to 1816. What happened was 6 new or returning teams added in, while 12 registered teams dropped out, so there was actually an 18 team turnover - pretty volatile. It's sad when teams pay the fee and get the KOP only to fail to field a robot after all, through lack of mentors, students, or just enthusiasm and the required basic drive to get things done. We had a team from NYC that always comes to the LI Regional and last year while they were registered, they never showed up. They're registered to play again this year, so I'm hoping for the best. |
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Both Hawaii and Wisconsin events reached their initial capacity today.
Only Israel (5 open slots) and St. Louis haven't met their original targets. Of course, most events now have more than their original capacity after drawing down the wait lists. Here's a summary graph just showing when all the other events filled up and went to waitlists. |
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An interesting statistic came up in this How Many teams Attend 2 Regionals? thread.
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I've served in two states, 7 or 8 times on criminal and civil cases. I've never served on a grand jury though. For some reason I've never been rejected by either the prosecution or defense, no matter how I answer their questions. This last time I was definitely preselected, because both sides skipped over me when questioning the pool of prospective jurors. They went through 80 potentials to get 12 and 2 alternates. |
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Registration is at 1812 teams as of today.
There are still a few teams coming and going across the board. Over the holidays most of the Michigan event lists got fleshed out. Just 2 teams show only single district events (2153 & 2617). 19 teams are signed up for three district events. Here are the semi-final percentages of teams going to multiple regionals for 2010 (about a 6% decrease overall compared to last year):
283 new teams 1508 returnees 21 resurrected vets 169 teams missing 8.1% net growth as it currently stands 9% team loss Teams from 12 countries: US, Canada, Israel, Brazil, United Kingdom, Mexico, Turkey, Australia, Bosnia, Chile, Germany, Netherlands Here is the net gain (new teams - lost teams) for different areas: Code:
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I was wondering, out of the 168 teams that are missing, how many were 1st and/or 2nd year teams? Does First do a follow up as to why they are not on board? My guess would be that one time grants to start a team dried up in the majority of cases.
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Here's the breakdown of this year's lost teams grouped by years of experience.
Note that teams 47 & 65 are mixed in here even though they didn't really go away, just merged. The cause isn't always money though, especially for newish teams. The program can be quite hard on team leaders who are often new teachers swamped by conflicting responsibilities. FIRST would need an exit interview-type of study to categorize the reasons. Code:
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Thanks for that quick response. Looks like money to me for first two years. Years 3,4,5 would probably be that first group of students moving on. I wonder what the 7th year spike is? Mentor burnout? I guess First would have to look back a few years to see if % is the same over time.
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We are having problems verifying registration for FTC, Madison High School in San Diego, for January 16, 2010. Does anyone know if it is TIMS or if California FTC events have been canceled? All three California FTC events show "PENDING", even the one that is passed.
Absent that, does anyone have contact information for the Madison High School FTC team that is hosting the event? Please e-mail WHSrobotics@aol.com Thank you! |
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This year and last, thanks to the efforts of team 1318 and others, there has been ~$150,000 available annually through the state's Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to schools participating in FRC. They provide, as I recall, $8,000 to rookie teams and a varying sum to veterans based upon need. |
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What about Texas before this year's announcement of funding? You had a great growth rate last year too. I wonder who's behind and funding the Utah expansion? P.S. There have also been other areas, eg. Kansas City, experiencing growth spurts due to an economic shot in the arm by a champion of the FIRST program. Those stories would be nice to collect too. Quote:
I could take it back to 1993 when 50% of the teams dropped out and they all had one year of experience. :rolleyes: The more difficult part is correlating the dropout rate to external economic or political events, such as Washington state's $150,000 STEMulus. 2005 was a year hard hit by team losses. It lost 13% of veteran teams. All the other years I list here represent yearly losses of 8-9%, which is average for the past decade. Teams lost in 2009, by years of experience: Code:
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team 1547 wheres waldo will be going to manchester and the greater toronto regional this year :)
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The January 15 payment deadline has passed.
In the days since, 19 events have had changes in their team lists. Championship is down to 129 registered teams. 46 teams who originally signed up dropped the event. That's more than a quarter of the teams who signed up. 1810 teams are registered for this season. |
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Just as important, why did 46 teams sign up for championship and drop out in such a relatively short period of time.
I can understand things that come up for a few teams here and there, but 46? Echoing the same concerns as teams need time to decide and plan if they want and can attend. Why wait til midMarch? |
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I'd guess that it's financial. Our funds are down this year, and from what others have said it's tough to get sponsors. We are doing all we can (why yes, I'd be happy to take your spare change, Thanks!) to keep our team moving forward.
We talked about registering for Atlanta, but passed since we didn't think we could raise the money to go. Others may have been more optimistic about raising the funds. I'd like to see FIRST open up the wait list for teams now, the difference between a $300 airline ticket on a 30+ day reservation vs a $1000 ticket 10 days in advance is a huge cost difference for teams. |
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