Registration 2012

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by stevend1994

^^ Interesting list, being that all MAR events are at the top.

Well, good to know that MAR is now the retirement home of FIRST.

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Well, good to know that MAR is now the retirement home of FIRST.

Well, after New Hampshire of course

Would it be possible to make an experience list like that for last season too, so they two can be compared?

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Well, good to know that MAR is now the retirement home of FIRST.

Retirement implies that we're not doing it any more.
In fact, the opposite is true: MAR teams are going to raise the bar this year.
Be Afraid.

[Mark McLeod]

Here are last season's average team ages at events.

[buildmaster5000]

Realizing that FRC started in New England, it isn't hard to believe that MAR has a lot of "old" teams. Even older than FiM. While it is good to see that CT is sustaining teams, the real question should be: Where is there a total lack of FIRST impact. What part of the country is the concentration of FRC teams per high school student the lowest. It would not surprise me if someone ran the numbers on this and came up with an area like Boston, or DC, or NYC.

We want to expand, but what is the point of expansion if the area is already saturated with teams (FiM, MAR, other "popular regions") If we as FIRSTers get teams in areas with no FIRST exposure, how much more effective does that one team become in acocmplishing the goal of FIRST as a whole?

As an aside, just because a high school in a certain district has a FRC team, doesn't mean the whole district knows about it. I didn't know that 5 of the 30 high schools in my county (Fairfax, Va) had FRC teams until I joined a team, which happened to be unaffiliated with any high school at all.

[ebarker]

Originally Posted by buildmaster5000

What part of the country is the concentration of FRC teams per high school student the lowest.

A couple of years ago there was this thread

Which led to this spreadsheet

If you look on row 56, you will see "teams / million students".

The data is out of date by over two years but you will get the idea.

Ed

[Chris is me]

We're going to the most storied regional in FIRST next year. Wow.

Originally Posted by Chris is me

We're going to the most storied regional in FIRST next year. Wow.

And that is?

[Pjohn1959]

Must be the BAE Systems Granite State Regional in Manchester.

[Mark McLeod]

More than 400 new teams now.
2246 teams altogether.

Thanksgiving break usually kind of flat lines registration, but then there'll be a bump up before Registration closes the middle of next week.

FiM (at 170 teams) is 10 shy of their current maximum capacity.
MAR seems to have room for 6 more teams.

88% of the available slots are spoken for:

• 5 Regionals are full
• 29 Regionals are in the single digits
• 10 Regionals have room for more
• None of the Districts look like they're at maximum yet
• 8 Districts are in the single-digits

[Alpha Beta]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Well, good to know that MAR is now the retirement home of FIRST.

Interesting how the FiM model (with its extra layer of weeding out) ends up sending a higher quality slate of robots to the Championship than the regional model does. Since MAR is running the same model with older, more experienced teams on average any thoughts on which of the two will have the greatest impact on Champs?

[Mark McLeod]

There are 2251 teams visibly registered and Bill just mentioned there are only nine more that aren't listed for an Event yet.

Originally Posted by Bill's Blog-Tuesday, November 22, 2011

We have 2260 registered FRC teams as of this morning...

Championships has dropped the first team from their list.

[Andrew Schuetze]

A few of the missing Texas teams are now back along with several Rockies clearing registration. FTC registration has also really picked up in the last 10 days.

Texas combined FTC & FRC = 370!

[Mark McLeod]

Here are the events with the highest percentage of Rookie teams attending.
Montreal should be exciting with a one-to-one match up of vets to rookies...

Total - Rookies - % rookies -- Event
36 ----- 18 ----- 50.00% ----- Montreal
51 ----- 18 ----- 35.30% ----- IL
58 ----- 19 ----- 32.80% ----- GA
43 ----- 14 ----- 32.60% ----- LA
64 ----- 20 ----- 31.30% ----- FL
39 ----- 11 ----- 28.20% ----- MO
40 ----- 11 ----- 27.50% ----- IN
63 ----- 17 ----- 27.00% ----- CA
41 ----- 11 ----- 26.80% ----- PIT
32 ------ 8 ----- 25.00% ----- Dallas-E
48 ----- 12 ----- 25.00% ----- TN
49 ----- 12 ----- 24.50% ----- TOR-W
30 ------ 7 ----- 23.30% ----- Dallas-W
35 ------ 8 ----- 22.90% ----- S. FL
52 ----- 11 ----- 21.20% ----- SDC
62 ----- 13 ----- 21.00% ----- N. Star
44 ------ 9 ----- 20.50% ----- UT
50 ----- 10 ----- 20.00% ----- MA
47 ------ 9 ----- 19.10% ----- WA-Olympic
38 ------ 7 ----- 18.40% ----- SC
46 ------ 8 ----- 17.40% ----- AZ
53 ------ 9 ----- 17.00% ----- TX
30 ------ 5 ----- 16.70% ----- TOR-E
62 ----- 10 ----- 16.10% ----- NYC
31 ------ 5 ----- 16.10% ----- WPI
64 ----- 10 ----- 15.60% ----- OR
57 ------ 8 ----- 14.00% ----- OH
53 ------ 7 ----- 13.20% ----- Queen
61 ------ 8 ----- 13.10% ----- Alamo
46 ------ 6 ----- 13.00% ----- SJC
46 ------ 6 ----- 13.00% ----- WA-Cascade
31 ------ 4 ----- 12.90% ----- WAT
32 ------ 4 ----- 12.50% ----- HI
41 ------ 5 ----- 12.20% ----- Spokane
50 ------ 6 ----- 12.00% ----- NC
46 ------ 5 ----- 10.90% ----- WI
65 ------ 7 ----- 10.80% ----- Lake S.
19 ------ 2 ----- 10.50% ----- MI-Niles
29 ------ 3 ----- 10.30% ----- MAR-Chestnut
40 ------ 4 ----- 10.00% ----- FLR
40 ------ 4 ----- 10.00% ----- MAR-MtOlive
57 ------ 5 ------ 8.80% ----- VA
35 ------ 3 ------ 8.60% ----- NV
36 ------ 3 ------ 8.30% ----- MI-West
39 ------ 3 ------ 7.70% ----- IS
29 ------ 2 ------ 6.90% ----- MI-Waterford
44 ------ 3 ------ 6.80% ----- CO
44 ------ 3 ------ 6.80% ----- CV
59 ------ 4 ------ 6.80% ----- MD
30 ------ 2 ------ 6.70% ----- MI-Troy
61 ------ 4 ------ 6.60% ----- 10K
33 ------ 2 ------ 6.10% ----- MAR-Lenape
33 ------ 2 ------ 6.10% ----- MI-Traverse
34 ------ 2 ------ 5.90% ----- MAR-Rutgers
51 ------ 3 ------ 5.90% ----- OK
54 ------ 3 ------ 5.60% ----- DC
36 ------ 2 ------ 5.60% ----- SAC
47 ------ 2 ------ 4.30% ----- LI
54 ------ 2 ------ 3.70% ----- KC
55 ------ 2 ------ 3.60% ----- CT
30 ------ 1 ------ 3.30% ----- MI-Northville
32 ------ 1 ------ 3.10% ----- MI-Kettering
33 ------ 1 ------ 3.00% ----- MAR-Hatboro
50 ------ 1 ------ 2.00% ----- NH
141 ----- 0 ------ 0.00% ----- CMP
28 ------ 0 ------ 0.00% ----- MI-Detroit
30 ------ 0 ------ 0.00% ----- MI-Livonia

[Mark McLeod]

Chart for the raw numbers of the previous post.
For comparison overall, rookie's make up 18% of all teams. Right between SC and AZ on the chart.