Registration 2012

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

Hooo boy... the barn doors are opening now!

Jane, will you please parse that one for the benefit of those not fortunate enough to reside within the great State of Texas?

I wouldn't want our new friends in China to get the impression they are being compared to escaped livestock.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Richard

Jane, will you please parse that one for the benefit of those not fortunate enough to reside within the great State of Texas?

I wouldn't want our new friends in China to get the impression they are being compared to escaped livestock.

Of course. That means that we are going to see some wonderful opportunities coming in the next few years. There's no stopping them (the opportunities).

Jane

P.S. Can I keep the, hooo boy! ? That means: with a little followed by a which = AWEsome!

[Mark McLeod]

I thought I should mention the new Michigan District event at Gull Lake High School in Richland, MI.
The Michigan people know all about it, but the rest of us may not have heard.

It's a week 1 event and 20 teams are currently registered there.


Waitlist clearing across a lot of events has been going on, too.

[Mark McLeod]

Here's the (semi) final registration plot for this year.
Currently at 2346 teams.

China dropped out on us.

• 465 new teams (19.8%)
• 24 resurected ex-vets
• 1857 returning from last season
• 13.6% gain over last season
• 91% team retention

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

I thought I should mention the new Michigan District event at Gull Lake High School in Richland, MI.
The Michigan people know all about it, but the rest of us may not have heard.

It's a week 1 event and 20 teams are currently registered there.


Waitlist clearing across a lot of events has been going on, too.

33 now.
We need to do a draft next week in Fantasy FIRST.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

33 now.
We need to do a draft next week in Fantasy FIRST.

Yeah, I posted that in the FF forum back when I saw the announcement. Sneaky multiplying Michiganders.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by EricH

Yeah, I posted that in the FF forum back when I saw the announcement. Sneaky multiplying Michiganders.

Like roaches they are.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Like roaches they are.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Gremlins then?

[Mark McLeod]

The Championship has been admitting teams off of the waitlist-about the same time as last year.
Originally, 142 teams were let in during open registration back in October.
It dropped to a low of ~123 teams after payments came due.
It's now back up to 140 teams.

Total registration now stands at 2343 teams.

Here are the % of teams doing more than one event:
# Events - # Teams - % of all Teams
5 ----- 2 ----- 0.1%
4 ---- 10 ----- 0.4%
3 --- 131 ----- 5.6%
2 --- 725 ---- 30.9%
1 -- 1475 ---- 63.0%

[PayneTrain]

I've noticed that in addition to a rise in 3-event teams that are attending 2 districts and an outside regional, more teams are moving towards 3 regionals. Do you think it will be a growing trend in places that don't have districts?

[Mark McLeod]

Here's a late addition of when each event reached initial capacity (blue bar) and when it finished drawing from the waitlist if it reached max advertised capacity (red bar). Those events where the blue/red bar reaches the top are those that never reached maximum capacity. The scale is in days from registration opening. The blue bar can be thought of as the free market, while the red bar represents the controlled market of the Regional Director/FIRST HQ's discretion. The Blue goes quickly, but the red lags.

The first chart is in order from left to right based on which events reached initial capacity first.
The second chart is in order by when the team list was finalized from the waitlist.

FIRST HQ is highly concerned with all teams getting their first Regional, but don't care so much if they get a second Regional, so some waitlists drag on and never seem to close.

[Gregor]

How many days must teams wait before second and third regional registration opens?

[Mark McLeod]

All in the FIRST calendar: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...eason-calendar

[Mark McLeod]

Here are some charts of interest.
These show how old the teams are that have dropped out each of the years from 1999 to 2012.

The number in the pie wedge is the number of teams that didn't return from the previous year, and the color of the wedge corresponds to the number of year's the team actually competed. This includes teams that may have skipped a year, but the skipped years weren't counted.

In the 2nd attachment the % in the pie wedge is the % of all teams lost that year.