Registration 2012

[EricLeifermann]

The best place for new exposure would to put a district event in Marquette Michigan (I'd say Houghton but not enough teams would actually trek that far to come to a competition) in District 1. Yes it is a drive for the teams in Lower Michigan but the UP is an awesome place and is well worth the trip also the UP is slowly growing with teams and this new competition would help speed it up. It would also help keep costs down for the teams in district 1 as they have to travel upwards of 10 hours one way to get to 1 competition and then to force them to do it twice is ridiculous. FIM was created to save teams $, get the costs of competitions down and to give teams more play for the price. All teams in District 1 don't see the benefit of it because they have to travel so far.

[IKE]

Anyone ever been to Sault Ste. Marie, MI?

Looks like there is an Airfield and a University. It is also 5 hours from Houghton, and 5 hours from Troy, MI.

[Mark McLeod]

FiM has begun clearing the District waitlists.

• Kettering, Traverse City, West Michigan, Detroit, & Livonia are full now.
• Troy & Northville have 4 openings between them
• Niles is still only half full
• Waterford has 10 unassigned slots

12 Regional events have each had a few minor team changes in the past 24 hours.

In all, a net of 45 teams have added in (teams have dropped out too).

[mdiradoorian]

It is wierd how they extended the date for regionals to December 19th to allow more teams to apply.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Now that registration is done...

EWCP has published a new team distribution map. It is available on our blog at http://ewcp.org/blog/2012/01/03/FRC-...distributions/

[Alpha Beta]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Now that registration is done...

EWCP has published a new team distribution map. It is available on our blog at http://ewcp.org/blog/2012/01/03/FRC-...distributions/

The distribution does give a nice sense of which areas might have the team density to support a district like system.



I'm not sure if team densities will ever approach FIM and MAR levels in the midwest. The population isn't as dense. On the flip side, the midwestern culture is used to driving longer distances to do things. Perhaps we can support the district system over a much broader geographical area.

[jwfoss]

Originally Posted by Alpha Beta

The distribution does give a nice sense of which areas might have the team density to support a district like system.

I would agree that this map clearly shows that with FiM and MAR, New England would be the next area targeted for districts.

[RoboMom]

Originally Posted by jwfoss

I would agree that this map clearly shows that with FiM and MAR, New England would be the next area targeted for districts.

Minor point of clarification:
MAR=NJ, eastern part of PA, and DE

National Capital Region: MD, DC, VA

For now.

[JohnBoucher]

Originally Posted by RoboMom

Minor point of clarification:
MAR=NJ, eastern part of PA, and DE

National Capital Region: MD, DC, VA

For now.

This is the first I have heard about the National Capital Region. New for 2013?

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by JohnBoucher

This is the first I have heard about the National Capital Region. New for 2013?

That's just the name of the region, it's not an actual district system like FiM or MAR (as of now).

[RoboMom]

Originally Posted by JohnBoucher

This is the first I have heard about the National Capital Region. New for 2013?

Been around for at least 3-4 years. http://www.mdfirst.org/about-us/firs...al-region.html
http://www.dc-first.org/about-us/sponsors
http://www.virginiafirst.org/community/sponsors

The region shares major sponsorship for events.

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by Alpha Beta

I'm not sure if team densities will ever approach FIM and MAR levels in the midwest. The population isn't as dense.

Well, yeah, here in MAR we sure have a lock on people who are dense.

[Mark McLeod]

Welcome to the latest FRC rookie team 4411, from Beijing, China.
The Middle School attached to Northern Jiaotong University

They have signed up fpr the Seattle Olympic Regional.

[Mark McLeod]

Nice region grouping graphic.

The team coordinates in the most recent All FRC Teams Ever have been refined.
About a third now reflect the actual school location and the only duplicate coordinates are of teams hosted at the same school.
It's not perfect, as some teams don't give enough information to pinpoint their location any closer than a town, and mistakes may have been made, but it's better than it was.

The coordinates that have been examined and are fairly accurate are marked.
If anyone wants to volunteer corrections, they will be cheerfully accepted.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Alpha Beta

The distribution does give a nice sense of which areas might have the team density to support a district like system.



I'm not sure if team densities will ever approach FIM and MAR levels in the midwest. The population isn't as dense. On the flip side, the midwestern culture is used to driving longer distances to do things. Perhaps we can support the district system over a much broader geographical area.

This is a good point about population densities. I recall seeing population density somewhere. I'll see if I can dig that up and overlay the map with it sometime this week.