Registration 2012

[1986titans]

Originally Posted by Phyrxes

I wonder if the rookie teams this year will start the 4000's or will they be split between 3900 and 4000s?

Looks like they started at 3925.

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by O'Sancheski

Yes. We are looking forward to going over the boarder once again.

Hear you might be bringing some friends along.

[waialua359]

There is definitely a team that will travel the farthest across the continent to Hawaii. Not official yet though.

[O'Sancheski]

Originally Posted by waialua359

There is definitely a team that will travel the farthest across the continent to Hawaii. Not official yet though.

Hmmmmmm. Who could that be?

[Akash Rastogi]

Right now of the 5 MAR events, Mount Olive (woot hometown love) looks to be the toughest to play in. The other 4 look to be at a fairly even level of competition. The powerhouses spread out decently enough, I think.

https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index....3D71QKvnF39497

Cannot wait for this season to start. We'll be playing at Chesnut Hill and Mt. Olive. Should be sick!

[thefro526]

It seems like there may be some sort of Glitch in the MAR Registration. Two teams managed to register outside of MAR for Regional Events.

Weird.

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by thefro526

It seems like there may be some sort of Glitch in the MAR Registration. Two teams managed to register outside of MAR for Regional Events.

Weird.

That's not a problem, is it? I didn't think there was a restriction on who could attend non-FIM/non-MAR Regional competitions.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

That's not a problem, is it? I didn't think there was a restriction on who could attend non-FIM/non-MAR Regional competitions.

The restriction we were told of the night prior to registration is that any team who chooses to attend an event otside MAR MUST wait until second event registration opens for all teams.

[Mark McLeod]

Did they give a rational for asking MAR teams to wait?

On the surface it wouldn't seem to matter, since on the whole MAR events are guaranteed. Although you may not get your choice by choosing late, none of the events are very far from each other (unlike a MI UP team attending a Detroit District).

It would give the MAR teams an advantage over Regional-only teams I suppose to have your home spots guaranteed.

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

That's not a problem, is it? I didn't think there was a restriction on who could attend non-FIM/non-MAR Regional competitions.

Technically, MAR teams aren't allowed to register for outside regional events until October 27th. It was a bit strange to see two MAR teams registered for outside Regional Events and no MAR events.

Maybe it won't be an issue in the grand scheme of things, it's just a little troubling for those of us who will be biting our fingers for the next 4 weeks hoping that our Travel Regional won't fill. (Many teams are in the position that only one regional works with budgets, time, MAR schedule, Testing, etc.)

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Did they give a rational for asking MAR teams to wait?

On the surface it wouldn't seem to matter, since on the whole MAR events are guaranteed. Although you may not get your choice by choosing late, none of the events are very far from each other (unlike a MI UP team attending a Detroit District).

It would give the MAR teams an advantage over Regional-only teams I suppose to have your home spots guaranteed.

I'm not sure of the rationale, but it is justified to have MAR teams wait until second event registration opens for all because MAR teams were allowed to pick TWO MAR events already. It seems fair enough.

Whatever the rationale, I just want every team to abide by the same rule regardless of even if it was an error on TIMS's part.

[Brandon Holley]

From an outsiders perspective...

When we're deciding on our regionals, like everyone else, its a tough call to choose which one we register at first. We may be able to guarantee a spot at our travel regional, but it would be at the risk of being boxed out of our home regional. For this reason, we always register for the Boston regional first. Some teams philosophy may differ, but for us, its the way we do things. If however, we were guaranteed registration to an event nearby, it would make choosing which regional to register for first a no brainer; go for the travel first knowing our home competition is more or less guaranteed.

The other side of the coin is obviously that the MAR teams do not have a choice right now, they have to sign up for home first. If the choice was up to the MAR teams however, I feel they would be at a slight advantage when it came to registration. IF they had a choice, they could sign up for a travel comp knowing their home comps would still be available (and also closed off to a large portion of FRC teams).

Thats just the way I see it from an outsider's perspective. I certainly understand the concern Dustin and Akash have because some teams may be taking advantage of this "loophole" (for lack of a better term).

-Brando

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Brandon Holley

From an outsiders perspective...

When we're deciding on our regionals, like everyone else, its a tough call to choose which one we register at first. We may be able to guarantee a spot at our travel regional, but it would be at the risk of being boxed out of our home regional. For this reason, we always register for the Boston regional first. Some teams philosophy may differ, but for us, its the way we do things. If however, we were guaranteed registration to an event nearby, it would make choosing which regional to register for first a no brainer; go for the travel first knowing our home competition is more or less guaranteed.

The other side of the coin is obviously that the MAR teams do not have a choice right now, they have to sign up for home first. If the choice was up to the MAR teams however, I feel they would be at a slight advantage when it came to registration. IF they had a choice, they could sign up for a travel comp knowing their home comps would still be available (and also closed off to a large portion of FRC teams).

Thats just the way I see it from an outsider's perspective. I certainly understand the concern Dustin and Akash have because some teams may be taking advantage of this "loophole" (for lack of a better term).

-Brando

For HI teams, they are pretty much guaranteed a spot at their own home regional. That's why we and other HI teams usually sign up for the mainland regional 1st, ensuring that whatever travel plans/reservations were done in advance, wouldnt have to be cancelled due to registration being closed.

[Mark McLeod]

Ladies & Gentlemen
We have reached the 1000 team mark.

These are teams registered openly for events (so not including MI-except for the single odd team 66 apparently playing alone in Northville )
That’s 4 days earlier than the last two years and almost half the teams that played last year.
(Although, to be a fair comparison with last year it's more like 3 days earlier, since 35 WA teams would have to be subtracted.)
The graph compares 2011 to past years back to 2007. (Ignore the dates at the bottom. They are normalized across the years to match up the graphs for comparison.)

For events:
MAR team 1168 got pulled back from Chesapeake.
For MAR it looks like a little less than half the NJ teams aren't signed up yet, and a quarter of eastern PA teams haven't yet registered. All of DE (2) have registered.
All MAR events have single-digit initial openings remaining.
Other single-digit Regionals remaining are:

(4) Boilermaker
(6) Silicon Valley
(9) SBPLI

67 rookies total, so 6.7% of the registered teams.
There's a slew of Montreal rookies.

[Mark McLeod]

Team number 4000 is from Corpus Christi, TX

And the Michigan team list has been released, with an initial 101 teams showing as registered.
Looks like each team has been assigned to only one event to start.

At 1200 teams now (1:45pm, 10/3)

Representatives from:

• 9 Countries (US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Israel, Chile, Germany, Turkey, UK)
• 50 US States/districts/territories (missing: NE & SD)

SBPLI is full