As of this morning registration (1682) officially passed last year's total teams (1677).
127 more teams than were registered at this time last season, and 20 days ahead of last year's signup.
Part of the latest increase has been due to waitlist releases, as well as, rookies finally signing up.
- ~87% team retention so far (same as 2005's final tally), still missing 240 teams that played last year.
- 19 returned schools that had a team before (2 to 13 years ago).
- 227 new teams
Some of those new teams given low numbers have dropped out - 9 of those remain.
3351 from Israel is the highest team number so far.
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Resurrected teams
CA 3
FL 2
NY 2
Brazil 1
CO 1
CT 1
HI 1
IL 1
MI 1
MN 1
MT 1
OK 1
OR 1
PR 1
VA 1
Israeli teams are usually late for signup, so that number missing can be depended on to go down a lot.
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Teams Missing from last season
Israel 34
TX 18
CA 17
Canada-ON 16
NY 14
OH 11
MI 10
MO 9
CO 8
PA 7
AZ 6
MA 6
OK 6
HI 5
MN 5
NV 5
VA 5
WA 5
DC 4
FL 4
IL 4
GA 3
KS 3
NH 3
SC 3
Canada-QC 2
LA 2
ND 2
NJ 2
WI 2
AL 1
Canada-AB 1
Canada-BC 1
CT 1
ID 1
IN 1
MD 1
ME 1
Mexico 1
MS 1
MT 1
NC 1
NM 1
OR 1
Philippines 1
RI 1
TN 1
United Kingdom 1
UT 1
WV 1
WY 1
Minnesota is winning the new team recruitment drive, and has broken the 100 team barrier, for 102 teams this year.
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New Teams
MN 25
CA 20
TX 13
WA 12
OH 12
UT 11
OK 8
NY 8
VA 7
NC 7
MI 6
IN 6
GA 6
AZ 6
OR 5
NJ 5
MA 5
Israel 5
CT 5
TN 4
PA 4
IL 4
AL 4
NH 3
MD 3
ID 3
FL 3
RI 2
NV 2
MT 2
MO 2
LA 2
KY 2
DC 2
CO 2
WY 1
WI 1
MS 1
Mexico 1
KS 1
HI 1
Canada-QC 1
Canada-ON 1
Australia 1
Four states now have in excess of 100 teams.
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Total
CA 151
MI 131
NY 118
MN 102
TX 86
NJ 64
VA 62
WA 56
MA 51
OK 50
IL 47
MO 45
PA 45
OH 43
Canada-ON 42
FL 42
CT 38
AZ 37
IN 35
OR 33
GA 31
CO 28
MD 28
WI 28
NH 27
HI 21
SC 20
KS 19
Israel 18
NC 17
LA 16
UT 15
DC 13
ID 11
MS 11
NV 11
AL 10
TN 10
Brazil 7
PR 7
KY 6
ME 6
MT 6
AK 3
IA 3
ND 3
NM 3
RI 3
VT 3
WV 3
Canada-QC 2
DE 2
Mexico 2
United Kingdom 2
WY 2
AR 1
Australia 1
Canada-BC 1
Chile 1
Germany 1
Netherlands 1
Turkey 1