Registration 2015

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

2014 had an unusually high initial registration for rookies for some reason.

I wonder if a surge in support for FIRST somewhere near the Great Lakes might have had a "hand" in that?

[Basel A]

Originally Posted by Richard Wallace

I wonder if a surge in support for FIRST somewhere near the Great Lakes might have had a "hand" in that?

Yeah, probably a little impact

[Tom Ore]

More teams from China registered. Total of 22 now:

7 - Australia
5 - Las Vegas
4 - New York City
3 - North Star
2 - 10,000 Lakes
1 - Midwest

[Aren Siekmeier]

Originally Posted by compwiztobe

If I can find a suitable server to run it on, I'll post a link to something that updates more often.

Here's a link.

Right now it updates every hour. Starting tomorrow at noon EDT it will update every 5 minutes or so, tapering back off to every hour.

[lynca]

Originally Posted by Tom Ore

More teams from China registered. Total of 22 now:

This is fantastic growth for FRC in China. Color me impressed
A chinese regional should definitely happen in 2016 if all these teams stick around.

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by Mark MMcLeod

2014 had an unusually high initial registration for rookies for some reason.

Didn't Michigan have some special rookie Grant thing last year that boosted their numbers up a ton? Could that have accounted for some of the initial increase? I know many rookie teams apply for the NASA Grant or others that don't come in until later, so they have to sit around and wait to see if they'll have money before registering. Having a group that knows they have money before things get started would boost initial numbers.

[Mr V]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

Didn't Michigan have some special rookie Grant thing last year that boosted their numbers up a ton? Could that have accounted for some of the initial increase? I know many rookie teams apply for the NASA Grant or others that don't come in until later, so they have to sit around and wait to see if they'll have money before registering. Having a group that knows they have money before things get started would boost initial numbers.

Late rookie registration is often due to teams that are waiting to hear if they have received a grant or not. In WA we have a grant from the state that for rookies that is in the amount of $7000 which did not close until last Thur. Typically it takes a week or more for that grant to be approved and the applicants to receive notice that they will be awarded the grant. Then they have to complete some steps to claim the grant and wait some more until they actually receive the funds.

There is always a issue on deciding when to have the grant deadline. I've found that I typically have a very hard time getting responses from those who might want to start a team until school has been in session for a couple of weeks. So if you have the deadline early enough that they will be notified that they have the grant before first event registration and you'll be eliminating many potential rookies. I always tell the potential teams that are on my radar to go ahead, register a team and register for an event even if they don't know if they will receive funding since the worst that will happen if they don't pay the registration fee is that they will loose their spot. Despite this many do not even begin team registration until they have the cash in hand.

[Mark McLeod]

2600 teams are fully registered and listed for events.
It took 7 days to add 100 teams.

[Wetzel]

Will be interesting to see which events snap full at noon today. I was surprised by Troy last year, though in hindsight it makes perfect sense how desirable it was.

Wetzel

[Shrub]

The regionals with the most teams currently registered are Minnesota North Star and 10k Lakes, at 58 and 63. I can't wait to see what other events fill up

[Mark McLeod]

There are 13 Regionals with fewer than 10 open slots showing, not counting the reserved spots.
While these other double digit choices offer a better chance of getting in:

36 -- South Florida Regional
22 -- Palmetto Regional
18 -- Georgia Southern Classic Regional
16 -- Mexico City Regional
29 -- Arkansas Rock City Regional
32 -- Central Valley Regional
27 -- Israel Regional
10 -- Greater Toronto East Regional
16 -- Alamo Regional
11 -- Waterloo Regional
10 -- Central Illinois Regional
16 -- Bayou Regional
16 -- Wisconsin Regional
12 -- Colorado Regional
13 -- Hawaii Regional
22 -- Las Vegas Regional
16 -- Buckeye Regional
33 -- Hub City Regional
19 -- Windsor Essex Great Lakes Regional
33 -- Queen City Regional
21 -- Lone Star Regional

[The_ShamWOW88]

We'll have a decent idea after today how many teams we're down or up from last year.

Still 364 teams from last season that haven't registered for an event this year.

[Mark McLeod]

I don't expect much of a jump in teams as a result of 2nd Regionals opening.
We'll historically see a gain of maybe 30 teams today.

Teams hidden on waitlists won't appear until more events start clearing them.

[sanddrag]

I don't see how to register in TIMS. What do I click on?

[Arefin Bari]

Same here... not finding the button to add event...