Registration 2014

[wilsonmw04]

It's worse than just DC teams. Once we got wait listed for the MD event, we started looking at other possibilities. The options were limited. There were only two events within an 8 hour drive from Richmond. MD, DC, VA, NC, SC, GA, TN; every single event in these states were full minutes after 2nd enrollment began. It makes FIRST that much more expensive when you have to factor long distance travel into the equation.

[Mark McLeod]

We passed last seasons total teams (2524) around noon today.
Currently at 2562 2577.

Mostly due to what appears to be some teams coming off waitlists.

Michigan has also added a new District event in Midland, MI.
Two rookies are currently all who are registered there.

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Michigan has also added a new District event in Midland, MI.

Where is that listed? I don't see it on the FIM site or on the USFIRST events site.

[Ernst]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

Where is that listed? I don't see it on the FIM site or on the USFIRST events site.

https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index....age=searchform

Check "FIRST Robotics Competition" and "Events". Extend "List Length" to at least "100" and click "Show results"

ctrl + f "Midland"


(I've had iffy results trying to link to these results in the past)

[Mark McLeod]

It's also the 7th Michigan district event listed here: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...egional-events

Michigan has 252 teams listed. With 13 events they can handle a nominal 260 teams. The added event was inevitable I suppose.

[GaryVoshol]

Interesting, since that now requires a 3rd field.

[Racer26]

Ontario Teams still missing:

From 2013:

1846 - Appeared at QCMO of all places...
2625
2702 - Somehow got into ONWA
3396
3560 - Somehow got into ONTO2
3705 - Appeared at ONTO2
4015
4200
4252 - Appeared at ONTO
4372
4618 - Appeared at ONTO
4659
4678 - Appeared at ONWA and ONWI
4688
4699 - Were registered at GTREast in 2013, but didn't show up.
4727 - Appeared at ONTO
4777 - Somehow got into ONWA
4806
4807
4808

From 2012:

843 - Competed 2002-2012. 2 events per season each season from 2004.
1009 - Competed 2003-2006, 2011-2012, 1 event per season (always at Hershey Center).
1053 - Competed 2003-2012, 1 event per season (Hershey Center)
1221 - Competed 2003-2008, 2010-2012, 1 event per season (Hershey Center), except 2012, when they also played at GTREast.
1514 - Competed 2005-2012, 1 event per season (Hershey Center), except 2012, when they also played at Waterloo
1535 - Split from 1596 in 2007, multiple events per year from 2007-2012.
1605 - Competed 2005-2010, 2012, usually 2 events per year. - Appeared at ONNB
1835 - Competed 2006-2012, 1 event per season (Hershey Center)
2076 - Competed 2007-2009, 2011-2012, 2 events in 2008/2009.
3739
4022
4094
4236
4249
4258
4307
4357
4367

[Ed Law]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

Where is that listed? I don't see it on the FIM site or on the USFIRST events site.

Gary, I am as surprised as you are but in a different way. Per FiM request on Sunday, I looked into where to have additional events based on team locations and existing district event locations. I made the recommendation to add two locations (Midland/Saginaw and one other to remain nameless for now) and was on the phone until 1am on Monday. To have a place firmed up in a certain week, and FIRST got it listed and registered two rookies in a matter of hours on Monday is amazing to me. I will have Kristen update the FiM as soon as possible. I wasn't expecting it to be so quick which is why you didn't see it on the FiM site. Ed

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

Interesting, since that now requires a 3rd field.

Not necessarily, in previous years, MAR had only one field (this year they're getting a new one), and just used on official FIRST field on the week that had two events, so one can assume FiM will do the same the weekend with 3 events(unless they wish to make another field)

[Allison K]

Updated Michigan Stats
(edited post because another team registered while I was typing)

254 teams registered thus far for 2014 (vs. 203 teams in 2013) including...

• 3 Resurrected Veterans
• 1 New Veteran
• 60 Rookie Teams
• 23 Second Year Teams

There are 8 eight digit teams listed, indicating that there's at least a handful of teams still waiting in the wings.

There are currently 13 district events, and Ed Law's post a few replies back implies that there is possibly a 14th district event in the works (good thing, since we appear to be pushing 260 teams, at which point it would be necessary).

If the capacity for the Michigan State Championships remains at 64 as it has been since the advent of districts, the top 25% of teams will be invited to attend (as opposed to the top 31% of teams last season).

The retention rate from 2013 is currently 94%. There are 13 teams still missing that competed last season: 519, 2000, 2137, 2851, 3421, 3640, 3706, 4294, 4478, 4743, 4755, 4834, and 4839. A few of those teams surprise me as they've been very successful as recently as 2013 (notably 2000, 2137, and 2851 all of whom qualified to attend worlds last season). Has anybody heard from any of these teams?

[Kimmeh]

Originally Posted by Allison K

The retention rate from 2013 is currently 94%. There are 13 teams still missing that competed last season: 519, 2000, 2137, 2851, 3421, 3640, 3706, 4294, 4478, 4743, 4755, 4834, and 4839.

Unless the school suddenly (and shockingly) decides to field the team, 3421 will not be competing this year. Two mentors and a student are joining a new team in Memphis (5046). The school let go of the lead mentor, the other mentors aren't in a position to step up and take it, and the school is unwilling to let parents take control of the team.

Thankfully we had a sizable number of seniors who graduated and the number of teams in the county has exploded, including one at the high school of the town in which our school was located (we were out of the county's vocational school). The remaining students should be able to join a team at either their home school or one nearby, if interested.



Egad! I'm part of a 5000 team now!

[P.J.]

Originally Posted by Allison K

[*]1 New Veteran

Pardon my ignorance, but what is the difference between a "resurrected veteran" and a "new veteran?"

[Allison K]

Originally Posted by P.J.

Pardon my ignorance, but what is the difference between a "resurrected veteran" and a "new veteran?"

Resurrected Veterans are teams that have competed in the past, dropped out for one or more seasons, and then returned. New Veterans are teams that have formed from experienced students from an existing team (such as a multi-school team splitting into two teams, or a single school forming additional teams at the same school) that haven't existed in any previous year and are assigned a number with the same rookie year as the original team.

[wilsonmw04]

Originally Posted by P.J.

Pardon my ignorance, but what is the difference between a "resurrected veteran" and a "new veteran?"

a new vet is a new team with veteran members. The other is an old team that reformed.

[P.J.]

Originally Posted by Allison K

New Veterans are teams that have formed from experienced students from an existing team (such as a multi-school team splitting into two teams, or a single school forming additional teams at the same school) that haven't existed in any previous year and are assigned a number with the same rookie year as the original team.

That's what I thought. Who's our new veteran in Michigan then?