Update: one more day until 2nd regional registration opens. 1148 teams have registered, bringing the total to about 66% of published capacity. As Mark pointed out earlier the number of teams registered is well ahead of this time last year.
178 rookie teams have registered so far. The most recent is FRC 2507 from Bishop DuBourg High School in St. Louis.
Eleven regionals are now at their published capacity: BAE Granite State, Midwest, Greater Kansas City, NASA VCU, Detroit, Florida, Oklahoma City, Boston, Hawaii, Minnesota, and SBPI Long Island. Three others are nearly full: Boilermaker, Peachtree, and Silicon Valley.
Updated regional-by-regional and week-by-week figures follow:
Code:
Regional / Attending / Open
BAE Granite State / 42 / 0
Midwest Chicago / 36 / 0
New Jersey / 39 / 14
Oregon / 22 / 32
St. Louis / 20 / 18
Week 1: / 159 / 64 / 71% full
Arizona / 32 / 22
Finger Lakes / 23 / 9
Greater Kansas City / 54 / 0
NASA/VCU Richmond / 54 / 0
San Diego / 25 / 13
Week 2: / 188 / 44 / 81% full
Boilermaker / 29 / 3
Brazil / 0 / 30
Chesapeake / 23 / 31
Connecticut / 29 / 41
Detroit / 30 / 0
Florida / 54 / 0
Peachtree / 36 / 2
Pittsburgh / 8 / 23
Silicon Valley / 38 / 2
Wisconsin / 30 / 24
Week 3: / 278 / 156 / 64% full
Buckeye / 19 / 31
Lone Star / 21 / 33
Los Angeles / 28 / 14
Microsoft Seattle / 18 / 14
Oklahoma City / 36 / 0
Davis/Sacramento / 12 / 22
Waterloo / 4 / 22
West Michigan / 25 / 19
Israel / 4 / 38
Week 4: / 167 / 193 / 46% full
Bayou / 25 / 29
Boston / 41 / 0
Colorado / 23 / 15
Great Lakes / 43 / 11
Greater Toronto / 24 / 30
Hawaii / 28 / 0
Las Vegas / 20 / 21
Minnesota / 38 / 0
Palmetto / 17 / 14
Philadelphia / 28 / 6
SBPLI Long Island / 34 / 0
Week 5: / 321 / 126 / 72% full
New York City / 35 / 19 / 65% full
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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)