Poor Dean's Homework 2013 Turnout

[Hallry]

Since the submittal period is now closed, I counted the Dean's Homework 2013 submissions in the Box.com submittal folder and gathered the following statistics:

• Out of 2,850 FRC Teams, only 43 submitted a video. That's just 1.5% (The reason I included 2014 rookie teams in that statistic is because a 2014 rookie team did in fact submit an entry, FRC Team 5038 from Israel. If you really wanted to use only the 2013 data, then it'd be 42/2,548 = 1.65%)
  
  
• Out of 3,000 FTC Teams, only 5 submitted a video. That's just 0.166...%.
  
  
• Out of 23,000 FLL Teams, just 2 submitted a video. That rounds to 0.01%
  
  
• And out of 3,800 Jr. FLL Teams, none submitted an entry. 0%.

With 188 days from announcement to due date, I'm wondering, why are these numbers so small? Yes most of the time was during the summer, but there was still about 3 and half months that teams were still in school when a <120 second video could have been made. There are also many teams who struggle to find sponsors, rookies, funds, etc. during the off-season, but I at least expected the percentages to be greater than what they are. If you were a team that didn't submit a video, why didn't you? Did you not have the time/resources, weren't aware, we pursuing other opportunities, etc.? And if you did submit an entry, why did you and how much effort did it take (time required, amount of people that worked on it, etc.)?

*Team Statistics retrieved from FIRST website here: http://www.usfirst.org/aboutus/first-at-a-glance