Total registration is now up to 982 teams, with 2nd regional registration trying to begin.
US average is up to 3.1 teams-per-million-residents (TPMR). The updated states rankings by TPMR:
Rank / State / Teams / TPMR
1 / NH / 26 / 20.3
2 / MI / 100 / 10.2
3 / CT / 29 / 8.7
4 / MA / 48 / 7.6
5 / VA / 54 / 7.4
6 / KS / 20 / 7.2
7 / MO / 39 / 6.8
8 / NY / 90 / 4.9
9 / CO / 22 / 4.9
10 / SC / 18 / 4.5
11 / NJ / 37 / 4.4
12 / OR / 13 / 3.6
13 / WI / 19 / 3.5
14 / MD / 18 / 3.3
15 / AZ / 17 / 3.3
16 / IN / 20 / 3.2
17 / ON / 38 / 3.0
18 / OK / 10 / 2.9
19 / PA / 35 / 2.8
20 / GA / 22 / 2.6
21 / CA / 88 / 2.6
22 / FL / 41 / 2.5
23 / OH / 24 / 2.1
24 / WA / 13 / 2.1
25 / IL / 24 / 2.0
26 / TX / 19 / 0.9
These 25 US states plus Ontario account for 884 teams, which is 90% of the total.
Massachusetts has moved up a few spots with 10 additional registrations since my last calculation. Maryland is now on the list, as it should have been earlier (my bad).
And Michigan has reached the 100 team mark. New York and California are probably not far behind. As has been pointed out earlier in this thread, these figures (1) are preliminary, and (2) do not include 'invisible' teams that we will know about after December 1st.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)