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Originally Posted by Richard
1148 teams have registered, bringing the total to about 66% of published capacity.
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It's fast approaching last year's total. I'm always interested when we get to final registration (except for those last minute 10 teams or so who finally get it together in January), how many teams have dropped out from the previous year.
We have several local teams on Billfred's list that cannot register until they pass their School Board approval cycle, so they always register late. Most of the Israeli and Brazil teams also seem to all pop-in at the last minute.
One of the oddities introduced by the published capacity of individual Regionals is that the number of teams registered for already full Regionals continues to go up as Rookie teams add-in. So team registration goes up, but isn't directly reflected by the remaining capacity %.
P.S. I just noticed that Richmond's capacity actually seemed to drop by 2.
It's still quite a guessing game for teams on the wait lists as to what the real capacity of a Regional is and what their chances are of getting in. FIRST requires Regionals to reserve more slots than are likely to be filled by Rookies, making wait lists possible. As it works now you have to talk to individual Regional Directors to know where you might stand.