Re: Registration 2011
 

1400 teams on the registered list
135 rookie teams
8 resurrected vets

70% of the teams from last year have re-registered already.
Nine sub-100 teams are still missing, but some, like team 1, are probably on waitlists still.

9 countries are represented: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Germany, Israel, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States (48 states + PR & DC).


P.S.
A team I knew that was registered for two Regionals got removed from one Regional list and is now only on the waitlist for their home Regional. So that got straightened out.

Five other teams have been removed from the registered list and I assume left on waitlists for other events.

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Beware of Team 2576 (Chile): With that fantastic rescue they pulled off, it's clear they know what they're doing...

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Got another mini-release of 15 or so Michigan teams at mid-day. They still seem to be adding as I post, but they're up to 135 teams now leaving them District slots to accommodate 25 more teams.
It's nice to see team 51 of course :)

I'm not seeing the flood of team growth we were promised yet. Right now it's still looking like a pretty dismal growth year.

160+ new teams
Boston Regional is finally at initial capacity. 2 1/2 weeks later than last year.

Last year 19 Regionals were at initial capacity by this time.
This year 8 Regionals are at initial capacity by this time.
To be a fair comparison, the capacity at 15 events is the same or close & 3 events had large increases.

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The FIRSTinTexas.org grants have been slow to develop as the funding was finally put in place on Monday of this week. Texas is majorly involved with the BEST robotics program and schools are just now wrapping up that season with competitions this weekend and next. Hopefully with both of those confounding issues soon behind us, we will see a flurry of new team growth in both FTC and FRC here in Texas as well as the remaining 40 odd veterans finally update their TIMS accounts and register for events and local kick-offs.:ahh:

NASA and Boeing grants are going to be late this year as well so over-all this year funding for new and veteran teams will be much later than normal. One could only assume that this is going to impact the team registration process. I don't want to be working in FIRST finance this year as they are going to be working over-time come December as payment deadlines come due. There is going to be hundreds of letters and emails from teams with a story about a sponsors check being in the mail.

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We just hit 1501 FRC teams, the number that played in 2008.
And the vets that have already returned match the # of vets that returned in 2009.

2.4% over last year at this time.
By way of comparison at this same point in registration the past couple of years:

2010 - 8.4% over the previous year (final growth was an unusually low 7.8%)
2009 - 17.8% over the previous year (final growth was 11.7%)

FRC growth has generally been slowing each year over the past decade, but last year and this it's been more extreme and recession-like.
These low growth numbers reflect on lower than normal registrations by both rookies and veteran teams.
The ratio of rookies to veterans is still pretty close to normal.

I forgot Texas registration is usually slowed by the BEST season competitions, and that'll result in a later surge in rookies.
The vets will sign-in at the same rate they always do.

P.S.
Still 2 teams that were able to register for two events before everyone else.

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Arkansas now has a second team. It's located in Little Rock.
P.S.
Assuming an average 25 students per team, there are now 38,000 students registered for this season.

Here's where the rookies are from so far:

MI ---------- 23
CA ---------- 18
FL ---------- 10
TX ---------- 10
Mexico ------ 8
OK ---------- 7
NC ---------- 6
ON Canada - 6
QC Canada - 6
WA ---------- 6
OH ---------- 5
PA ---------- 5
CT ---------- 4
GA ---------- 4
IN ---------- 4
MA ---------- 4
SC ---------- 4
LA ---------- 3
MN ---------- 3
NH ---------- 3
NY ---------- 3
AL ---------- 2
AZ ---------- 2
ID ---------- 2
IL ---------- 2
ME ---------- 2
MO ---------- 2
NJ ---------- 2
TN ---------- 2
VA ---------- 2
WI ---------- 2
WV ---------- 2
AR ---------- 1
DC ---------- 1
KS ---------- 1
MT ---------- 1
OR ---------- 1

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Arkansas is going gangbusters, it's tripled quadrupled its' number of teams. Another one joined from Springdale, and another from Hot Springs.
The new teams are far from the nearest veteran, so they'll need some teleop help.

Turkey is back with a couple of teams.

Some more old veterans have been resurrected.
Team 144 even got their original number back although they haven't played since 2003.


P.S.
Got a bit of a registration surge today and # of teams crossed the 1600 line about 4pm.
That's a week ahead of last year's pace.

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I hop that TIMS is ready for tomorrows assault.

(Foley, bring the hamster back)

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Just wondering, where are you getting all this info?

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The registration data just comes from the FIRST website at: http://www.usfirst.org/whatsgoingon.aspx
I have various filters I run it through to look at what's changing.

We also have kept records from earlier FIRST team databases that have now vanished. The raw form of this data is at: http://www.team358.org/files/team_lookup/
That database hasn't been updated in a year, because our webmaster has been in the middle of a database upgrade and got distracted by having to look for a real job after graduating college...

There are some errors in it from the original sources that we've been able to isolate and remove in the derived records published here: http://www.team358.org/files/frc_records/index.php

To compare against past year's I just keep records when I do this every year. You can do this yourself just by looking back through older Registration threads.

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In 10 minutes we can all register for a 2nd Regional event.

1612 teams are showing as registered.
A few teams on 8 event waitlists are not showing, but they are there.
2 teams got to register for two Regionals ahead of time- both 3000+ teams.
Michigan hasn't sorted everyone into their two District events yet.
Texas events will waitlist everyone for 2nd events.
Everyone registering for Championship will be waitlisted.

A little less than 12% of the teams are rookies or new "veteran" teams (189).
10 resurrected vets have been identified.
We're missing 21% (~400) of the vets from last year-about normal for this time.

Israel vets (43) will show up later, and Texas registration has been slowed by the fall BEST competition.

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In and out of TIMS. Very smooth. The hamster must be happy.:D

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You know what's really weird is that one team dropped off the Championship team list at noon.

The most popular Regionals (that we can see) at noon were:

• (18) Chesapeake
• (16) Connecticut
• (10) Wisconsin
• (10) Tennessee
• (9) NYC - then the waitlist began

An hour later they were joined by:

• (10) Buckeye
• (12) NJ

And by the next morning the biggest gains, as the most popular 2nd event, were posted by:

• CT (+28 teams) - hit capacity & went to waitlisting
• MD (+27 teams)
• NJ (+22 teams)

4 more Regionals reached their initial capacity:

1. San Diego
2. NYC
3. Sacramento
4. Oklahoma

2 more Regionals filled initial capacity by 4:30pm

1. Los Angeles
2. Virginia

1 more Regional filled by the next morning

1. Connecticut

A few Regionals sent everyone to the waitlist immediately by cutting their remaining open slots to zero: Texas of course, DC, and FL. Seattle Cascade cut theirs to zero too, I assume to let Olympic catch-up.

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Just like last time. I can get in TIMS easily, but there is no box to register. I had to wait about 90 minutes for the 1st registration before it appeared. Hopefully it won't be as long. :(

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It's on the Edit/View page not the main TIMS page.
At the bottom.