Registration 2011

[Mark McLeod]

Thanks for the explanation. That's a relief to know.

Paul Woo (PaW) pointed me to this link explaining what's going on in Seattle.

[waialua359]

Dallas waitlisted team notification has been postponed indefinitely, so we decided to drop it today.
We are now hoping for somewhere '"slightly" closer.

[dodar]

Originally Posted by waialua359

Dallas waitlisted team notification has been postponed indefinitely, so we decided to drop it today.
We are now hoping for somewhere '"slightly" closer.

Well Orlando is kinda close to Dallas

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by waialua359

Dallas waitlisted team notification has been postponed indefinitely, so we decided to drop it today.
We are now hoping for somewhere '"slightly" closer.

Try FLR.
One of the few regionals that can still get the occasional Michigan team to come and play outside of the districts.
Pllus you can be (briefly) entertained by the snow(we tend to get lots and lots of the stuff).

[waialua359]

We are actually going to Orlando, but during week "7" for the VEX World Championships.

We have to go to St. Louis or farther on 5 separate occasions from now to IRI. FLR would have broke our bank.

[Mark McLeod]

I forgot to mention earlier that the Toronto double-regional also did it's own version of the shuffle on a much smaller scale.
Three teams from East and three from West switched places.

The team count is back up to 2081.
Still watching scattered teams come and go (only onesies, twosies).

[waialua359]

Vegas just added one more team.

[Mark McLeod]

I noticed that

There's still a bit of volatility with 12 events adding 15 teams and losing 4 over the past day or so.

Total number of teams is 2080.

[Mark McLeod]

This got posted in an unrelated thread, so I decided to post it here as well where we talk about such things.

Here are charts of 2011 teams by country (12 of them).

Here are the 2011 international numbers/percentages:
US -------------- 1925 -------- 92.50%
Canada ----------- 80 ---------- 3.84%
Israel ------------- 48 ---------- 2.31%
Mexico ------------ 12 ---------- 0.58%
Brazil -------------- 5 ---------- 0.24%
Turkey ------------- 4 ---------- 0.19%
United Kingdom --- 2 ---------- 0.10%
Australia ----------- 1 ---------- 0.05%
Chile --------------- 1 ---------- 0.05%
Germany ---------- 1 ---------- 0.05%
Herzegovina ------ 1 ---------- 0.05%
Spain -------------- 1 ---------- 0.05%

[Mark McLeod]

The payment deadline for Championships has passed and we're now down to 122 119 pre-registered teams and dropping.
That's from a start of 149 teams.

Currently registered teams for the Championship are from:

• (1) Chile
• (1) Israel
• (4) Canada
• (116) USA

[Mark McLeod]

It looks like FIRST has begun to clear the Championship waitlist.

The number of teams dropped to 114 or so, now it's bounced back up to 125 as teams accept off the waitlist.

There is still minor action on the Regional/District event lists. Four changed in the last 24 hours.

One team has dropped out altogether.
FIRST now shows 2076 teams.

[Mark McLeod]

2074 total teams, after having just lost a Lone Star rookie.
Some event team lists have continued minor fluctuations up through this posting.

• 266 net gain (14.7%) - percentage-wise not as good as 2008 and earlier, but much better than the past two years.
• 416 (20.1%) new teams - ~5% better than last year, but on a par with 2009 and earlier.
• 18 resurrected veteran teams
• # teams lost was ~equal (+1) to last year. Retention rate was the highest since 2003 with an 8.3% (adjusted) loss of veteran teams.

Not including Championship,

• 23% of FRC teams are attending extra events, including 11 Michigan 3rd district teams (still leaving 7 unused MI District slots).

[Mark McLeod]

• 2067 Total teams
• 406 Rookie teams
• 412 New teams (19.9% - 2008 and earlier had higher percentages of new teams))
• 18 resurrected veteran teams who did not play in 2010
• 259 Net team gain (14.3%)
• 91.5% 2010 team retention rate (only 2003 had a higher (+.5%) retention rate over ALL FRC years)
• 271 teams currently registered for Championships. (heading for ~350)

My team is too far down the overflow waitlist, so we got this FIRST email:

Greetings Championship Wait List Team:

Over the past four weeks of competition a high number of qualifying teams have accepted their invitation to attend the Championship event, and we expect this to be the case for weeks five and six. We have reviewed the Championship wait list, and based on your team’s position, it is highly unlikely we will be able to offer your team a spot to attend.

There does remain a chance that a registered team(s) could drop out, however this chance is very small and it could come as late as a week - even days - before the Championship takes place. If your team would like to stay on the list to be considered for a "short notice invite" in the event a spot opens, kindly respond to this email with your interest. Please include your team number. Teams that do not respond or respond they are not interested will be taken off the list. Teams that are interested will remain on the list in date order (i.e., the date they registered for the wait list via TIMS.)

For those of you who have completed your events for the season we want to thank and congratulate you! We look forward to having you with us in 2012. For those of you with events coming up, we wish you the best of luck in qualifying for the Championship.

Warm Regards,

FRC Teams

[Kevin Ray]

I have to say, for a team who had waited anxiously week after week for a notification from FRC that they are now off the wait list and invited to the Championship event to have received this notice would have been the most disheartening mail to have received all year. I really feel for those teams who cannot attend yet have both the funding and desire to attend.
Back in 2000 when I attended my first "National Event" at Epcott, pretty much all you had to do was have the $ and you made it to the Nationals. Little did I know that those seemingly plentiful slots would become all so sought after as years passed. It's been a very quick 11 years. I wonder what the Championship Event will be like in 2022? How difficult will it be to get into when there are 3000+ active teams. We were so lucky to have joined when we did.

Good luck to all teams attending the Championship Event.

[Gary Dillard]

So what's the magic number for the Championship this year? The team list shows 346 right now, last year there were 344, 348 in '09, 340 in '08, and 344 in '07 and '06.