Registration 2013

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by lynca

Mark, These numbers are great and just as I feared, Texas is bleeding teams.

Do you think it's mostly due to jcp pulling out or are there other factors?

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by lynca

Mark, These numbers are great and just as I feared, Texas is bleeding teams.

Apples to Oranges Apple halves?

This is a snapshot, so for a valid comparison to draw those kinds of conclusions, you have to compare the Texas numbers from comparable dates.

Last year on this date, Texas showed a -32.6% growth over the previous year, so this is actually 11% better than that.
The actual registration numbers for Texas on comparible dates are 2012: 97 teams vs 2013: 117 teams (currently ~20% growth), but remember this higher spurt is just last year's rookie teams registering earlier than they did last year.

P.S.
I could give growth over last year at this same time for every place.

This is a comparison of registration on the same date last year.
Only a few places have fallen behind last year's rate of registration.

Growth ---- State
1500.0% --- Canada-AB
600.0% ---- Australia
240.0% ---- Israel
200.0% ---- United Kingdom
200.0% ---- Netherlands
112.5% ---- AR
111.1% ---- TN
107.7% ---- Mexico
100.0% ---- Taiwan
100.0% ---- Dominican Republic
100.0% ---- SD
100.0% ---- Canada-SK
100.0% ---- Canada-BC
100.0% ---- Bosnia
66.7% ----- Brazil
50.0% ----- RI
50.0% ----- VT
35.7% ----- UT
34.0% ----- PA
30.0% ----- ME
26.0% ----- NJ
25.0% ----- IA
24.8% ----- MN
22.2% ----- SC
19.6% ----- TX
18.5% ----- Canada-ON
18.4% ----- AZ
17.9% ----- GA
17.0% ----- WA
17.0% ----- MO
12.5% ----- KY
12.4% ----- NY
12.0% ----- MI
11.2% ----- CA
9.4% ------ MD
9.4% ------ NC
9.4% ------ FL
8.7% ------ LA
8.3% ------ HI
8.2% ------ VA
8.0% ------ IL
7.7% ------ MA
7.1% ------ DC
6.3% ------ CO
5.9% ------ OH
4.9% ------ IN
4.8% ------ CT
4.8% ------ OR
3.6% ------ NH
2.2% ------ OK
0.0% ------ AL
0.0% ------ WI
0.0% ------ Canada-QC
0.0% ------ KS
0.0% ------ WV
0.0% ------ WY
0.0% ------ ND
0.0% ------ DE
0.0% ------ AK
0.0% ------ PR
0.0% ------ Germany
0.0% ------ Chile
0.0% ------ NM
-6.3% ------ ID
-10.0% ---- MS
-11.1% ---- NV
-20.0% ---- Turkey
-25.0% ---- MT

[Mark McLeod]

Here's a map of the 2013 Rookie teams to date.

[Littleboy]

No new Hawaiian teams? That is sad. How many teams normally form after this date? (How many total teams form later than this date 1 year ago?)

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Littleboy

No new Hawaiian teams? That is sad. How many teams normally form after this date? (How many total teams form later than this date 1 year ago?)

310 teams joined after this date last year.
That includes returning veteran teams as well as new rookie teams.

Just rookies after this date last year were 141 of those teams, almost half.

These numbers are in terms of teams that actually stayed around and played. I'm not counting teams that formed, registered, but then dropped out before any competition.

[Jon Stratis]

I was just checking out MN... we have a 99.3% return rate from last year (only 1 team hasn't registered this year... with 2 months until kickoff, I'm still holding out hope!), and 25 rookies. I am constantly amazed at the job some of the local FIRST staff and volunteers do to keep our state engaged!

[ehochstein]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

I was just checking out MN... we have a 99.3% return rate from last year (only 1 team hasn't registered this year... with 2 months until kickoff, I'm still holding out hope!), and 25 rookies. I am constantly amazed at the job some of the local FIRST staff and volunteers do to keep our state engaged!

Jon,

I find this incredibly exciting as well! Do you know which team has yet to register?

[Jon Stratis]

I believe it's 2532 from Forest Lake. It would be nice to know what happened to them, and if they're coming back!

[Mark McLeod]

Finally reached 2400 teams.

Down to 12% growth over last year at this time.

[buildmaster5000]

Simply out of curiosity, have you generated a best fit curve for the data that you have (through the end of last year) on total teams registered year to year? How far off are we from this years "prediction?"

[ehochstein]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

I believe it's 2532 from Forest Lake. It would be nice to know what happened to them, and if they're coming back!

At Fish in the Boat's MoA event today I heard that they are combining with another team close to them. Not confirmed though, just a rumor passed around.

[Mark McLeod]

Just what do you think this means?

Team Number: 4756
Team Name: aaaaaa
Team Location: wfofo34o2, Other Turkey
Rookie Season: 2013
Team Nickname: wgogfom3
Year - Event: 2013 Buckeye Regional

[dodar]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Just what do you think this means?

Team Number: 4756
Team Name: aaaaaa
Team Location: wfofo34o2, Other Turkey
Rookie Season: 2013
Team Nickname: wgogfom3
Year - Event: 2013 Buckeye Regional

There's more than 1?

[ehochstein]

I believe if you register under a country other than Canada or the US, other will show up before the country's name.

[gyroscopeRaptor]

Originally Posted by Wiifi

I believe if you register under a country other than Canada or the US, other will show up before the country's name.

Other is a placeholder for the state or province name. They don't have the administrative divisions of Turkey put in the system yet.