[Doug G]

Originally Posted by Kyle Fenton

The number system does baffle me from time to time. There are almost teams in the 2000 range, and there are only 1130 teams registered. I highly doubt that 45% of teams signed up and dropped out.

I think that number of teams that have dropped out over the past 10-14 years could be around 30-35%, some are just taking a year off. I also remember that when you registered back in 2000 (our first year), you were assigned a # even if you hadn't paid. So some of the numbers may have been assigned but never actually used. Also there was a odd/even debacle in 2002/3 to get to Nationals, I heard there were a few teams that re-registered as rookies to get a new number hoping it would make them eligible for Nats (I can't imagine that many teams actually doing that - but I heard it did happen.)