I'd have to look more closely, but DC filled faster last year (25 vs. 11), while MD filled half as slowly last year(13 vs. 21)- both of these are as of this point in the registration process. Reasons can vary from date changes to new team growth to MAR taking teams away or forcing outside teams away from the PA/NJ events, but it's probably easiest to just look at who attended the last two years and compare who hasn't registered or yet registered this season.
I can take a poke at that analysis later for both MAR and FiM, but I have a rookie team meeting today that I'm taking off the afternoon for.
Some of the data is directly available from
FIRST, such as, current registration numbers and who attended each regional last year. I also have a spreadsheet with past
attendance info. That can be used to figure out what teams MD & DC will lose this season.
That's from my
FRC Statistics page, which also has other stuff for you to play with if you like.
Other data, like how many teams were registered on such-and-such a date in 2007, I only have, because I collected it at the time. FIRST doesn't keep daily/weekly records like that. That's also on the FRC Statistics site, but isn't all directly linked. There are too many variations that only I find useful. For instance, I've taken random snapshots of regional team counts throughout the registration process each year. You can get to last years record directly using:
http://www.team358.org/files/frc_rec...ration2011.xls
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Originally Posted by SteveGPage
I am curious to see what kind of impact there is to regionals around the same geographical area of the new MAR. Is there data about the impact the MI regionals had, initially, to ones near the MI Regionals? DC and Chesapeake, at least from what I recall last year, seem to be down somewhat. In the case of MI, regionals just outside of the state, did they experience a smaller number of teams, and if so, how long did it take for them to recover?
How do you gather this data? I would love to do some analysis on the data, as well.
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