Made it past the 200 new team mark today.
81% of last year's teams have re-registered, leaving 19% still missing.
About 325 teams from last year haven't been heard from (not counting the teams we do know about that have merged or renumbered).
More total teams (1346) have now returned this year, than returned last year (1336).
14 past veterans teams have rejoined us (about normal results for the past decade) after being out of competition for:
- (2) 1-yr
- (1) 2-yrs
- (6) 3-yrs
- (1) 4-yrs
- (3) 6-yrs
- (1) 13-yrs
Projecting the registration curve it looks like net growth is close to 2004 (2005 season) percentages, maybe a 100 to 110 net team increase. Could be around 1780 teams this season after everything settles down by the time of the regional events.
2005 was a doldrum year with 6.6% overall growth. That's roughly what this year looks like too, we're seeing maybe half the double digit growth FRC has experienced over the past four seasons.