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Originally Posted by Joe G.
Looking through the list, I see 2871, 3280, and 4793 as not being registered at this time last year either.
I will point out that the current registration map in New England is quite stark. We have full events at Nashua, Reading, UNH, Northeastern, and Hartford, with very significant slots remaining at the other five events (Dartmouth has only 11 teams!). I could easily believe that a few of these teams are double-waitlisted if they were slow to register for whatever reason. For a significant number of the missing teams, Reading/Northeastern would seem to be the geographically logical event pairing, both of which filled quite quickly once second registration opened. On the other end of the spectrum, there are a number of missing teams from Maine, whose event has been historically slow to fill, putting less pressure on these teams to register quickly.
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It is interesting how Week 3 in NE is currently the quietest week of competitions after the second wave of registration with only 37 teams signed up (26 at Pine Tree and 11 at Dartmouth).
We shall see when another wave of registration opens and teams sign up for their third events. I know our team and others aren't planning to register for a third and condensing the schedule down to 5 weeks can deter more third events as there are only a select few events you can sign up for to avoid competing on back to back weekends. Totally doable but we aren't jumping at it.