[Mark McLeod]

Sorry I was busy this past weekend and fell behind here.

I took a look at what was the origin of the lower initial registration between last year and this year. The attached image compares team registration by the first weekend after opening, and is just the difference between last season and this season (negative means fewer teams from that location registered this year, positive means more registered this year).

It seems to be the PNW District somewhat offset by gains in China.

Registration slowed over the weekend as it usually does.
We passed 1900 teams around 5 o'clock on Monday.
We can see by the second attachment that registration has at least met up with last year, even though we know it must be ahead by a margin.
P.S. The dates on the base axis of the second chart are normalized to changing opening dates back to 2005 and don't reflect the current dates.