General Registration is closed but there are always teams appearing and disappearing from the rolls as the dust settings and payments come due. Last year we ended up with a dozen more teams after registration closed.
Michigan also has an extra day (12/2) of registration so rookies are still showing up there.
1681 teams are registered (vs. 1501 in 2008)
314 new teams (vs. 320 in 2008) - includes a couple of non-rookies and a couple of resurrected vet teams.
180 team net gain (vs. 200 in 2008)
12% growth (vs. 15.4% in 2008)
Teams from 10 countries
23 prior vets returned who sat out a year or more (vs. 13 returnees in 2008)
A big Welcome Back to these teams:
Code:
Yrs out
1 618 Philadelphia, PA, USA
1 886 North York, ON, Canada
1 1188 Royal Oak, MI, USA
1 1446 Washington, DC, USA
1 1452 Los Angeles, CA, USA
1 1567 Rochester, NY, USA
1 1770 Chicago, IL, USA
1 1849 Washington, DC, USA
1 1856 Redford, MI, USA
1 1863 Tulsa, OK, USA
1 1889 Wellington, FL, USA
1 2249 Billings, MT, USA
2 225 York, PA, USA
2 977 South Boston, VA, USA
2 1120 Milpitas, CA, USA
2 1148 Studio City, CA, USA
2 1257 Scotch Plains, NJ, USA
2 1578 Tel Aviv, TEL AVIV, Israel
2 1609 Ballwin, MO, USA
2 1954 Beer Sheva, Southern, Israel
2 1974 Stockton, CA, USA
3 3060 Birmingham, MI, USA (was team 1489)
4 2836 Woodbury, CT, USA (was team 38)
Lost 10.26% (154 teams) of vets from 2009 (vs. 10.22% loss in 2008, 8.4% loss in 2007, 9.3% loss in 2006)
The good news is about 1% (like those teams above) return after a year or two off.
These are the areas where we may need to work on retaining and supporting faltering veteran teams, although some attrition should be expected:
Code:
Missing vets
CA 16
BR 9
ON 7
TX 6
NY 6
NJ 6
MA 6
IS 6
FL 6
VA 5
PA 5
MO 5
MI 5
MD 5
OK 4
NV 4
MN 4
LA 4
HI 4
AZ 4
GA 3
WI 2
SC 2
PR 2
NH 2
MT 2
MS 2
KS 2
CT 2
CO 2
WV 1
UK 1
SD 1
OR 1
OH 1
NM 1
NE 1
NC 1
IL 1
ID 1
DC 1
BC 1
AL 1
AB 1
Here is the net gain and loss for each area with the loss of veterans offset by the gain of new teams (or recovery of previously lost vets):
Code:
Location # Missing # new teams Net gain/(loss)
TX 6 49 43
MN 4 28 24
WA 0 24 24
IL 1 15 14
IS 6 17 11
OK 4 13 9
NY 6 15 9
MI 5 13 8
DC 1 9 8
OH 1 6 5
OR 1 6 5
CO 2 5 3
GA 3 6 3
IN 0 3 3
KY 0 3 3
AL 1 3 2
ID 1 3 2
MO 5 7 2
PR 2 4 2
TN 0 2 2
UT 0 2 2
WI 2 4 2
AZ 4 5 1
CT 2 3 1
GE 0 1 1
ME 0 1 1
NC 1 2 1
SC 2 3 1
Turkey 0 1 1
VT 0 1 1
CA 16 16 0
HI 4 4 0
MS 2 2 0
NM 1 1 0
QC 0 0 0
VA 5 5 0
WV 1 1 0
AB 1 0 (1)
BC 1 0 (1)
LA 4 3 (1)
MA 6 5 (1)
NE 1 0 (1)
NH 2 1 (1)
ON 7 6 (1)
SD 1 0 (1)
UK 1 0 (1)
FL 6 4 (2)
KS 2 0 (2)
MD 5 3 (2)
MT 2 0 (2)
NJ 6 3 (3)
NV 4 1 (3)
PA 5 2 (3)
BR 9 1 (8)
Here is where everyone is from this year. (These add up to 1688, the number now, @1:53pm, registered):
Code:
CA 146
MI 133
NY 122
TX 88
MN 78
NJ 61
VA 59
ON 58
MA 52
MO 51
IL 49
IS 49
OK 49
PA 49
WA 49
FL 42
AZ 40
OH 40
CO 32
CT 32
IN 30
WI 29
GA 28
OR 28
NH 27
MD 26
HI 25
SC 23
KS 20
LA 16
DC 15
NC 13
NV 13
MS 12
PR 12
ID 10
AL 7
ME 7
BR 6
ND 5
TN 5
UT 5
KY 4
NM 4
UK 4
VT 4
WV 4
AK 3
IA 3
QC 3
BC 2
DE 2
MT 2
MX 2
RI 2
WY 2
AB 1
AR 1
Chile 1
GE 1
Netherlands 1
TK 1
Events are full except for:
(1) Oklahoma City
(1) Florida
(7) Arizona
(10) Bayou
(18) St. Louis
(1) Waterloo
(7) Hawaii
(1) Minnesota
Don't know about Michigan District events though.