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Originally Posted by lynca
I wanted to get all the bright minds together to discuss the Texas Registration Problem.
Current Texas registration is around 90 teams, which is a significant drop from 139 in 2013.
Here's a chart of the Texas Registration Growth since 2003
http://2013.discobots.org/node/84
Any ideas on how to revive these teams ? |
So, I went back to the numbers from around this point in last year, Andy, where you made a very similar observation about Texas bleeding teams. In reality, it appears that this is actually a very typical (although frustrating) trend in Texas. Texas teams have been historically VERY SLOW to get registered. Here's a quote from Mark McLeod on the
Registration 2013 thread from 11/06/2012:
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Originally Posted by Mark McLeod
This is a snapshot, so for a valid comparison to draw those kinds of conclusions, you have to compare the Texas numbers from comparable dates.
Last year on this date, Texas showed a -32.6% growth over the previous year, so this is actually 11% better than that.
The actual registration numbers for Texas on comparable dates are 2012: 97 teams vs 2013: 117 teams (currently ~20% growth), but remember this higher spurt is just last year's rookie teams registering earlier than they did last year.
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Right now, a couple weeks out from the same date last year, we're at a ~33.9 loss. I expect (and hope!) we'll be looking better in Texas a month from now. In the end, we may have either positive (preferable) or negative growth, but as of right now, we're pretty much on track with past Texas registration trends.