Registration 2016

[TDav540]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

Teams at the Doswell event are going to end up effectively are going to compete at the same event roster wise in Blacksburg.

Agreed. The Blacksburg and Doswell events will have nearly the same roster, with probably the only difference being a few Eastern VA teams who don't get Northern will come to Central.

[MrRoboSteve]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

We look forward to having you up here in week 1! If you haven't yet, book hotels... the close ones fill up fast! You'll love the atmosphere at the DECC - two 60 team regionals under one roof, with just a hallway separating the pits and double curtains separating the fields... it's an amazing venue to hold events in - I think I like it even better than our "home" regional in Minneapolis

The best part of the Duluth regionals IMO is the Double-DECCer match. After the two regionals complete their finals, the regionals combine into one for a super-finals round between the two winning alliances. Teams take it pretty seriously.

[Mark McLeod]

Interrupting the random sidebar conversations with registration data...

At noon there were 1736 teams registered.
That's a little over 50% of the final count of teams expected for this season.

88 are rookies (team #'s 5800 and higher), that's 5% of the teams currently registered.
The rookie percentage of total teams will eventually be higher as rookies are typically late registers.

Waterloo finally filled their last general admission slot.

9 Regional events are in the single digits.
4 District events are single digit

2 District events have assigned all their initial open slots.
7 Regional events have assigned all their initial open slots.

[Francis-134]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Interrupting the random sidebar conversations with registration data...

At noon there were 1736 teams registered.
That's a little over 50% of the final count of teams expected for this season.

88 are rookies (team #'s 5800 and higher), that's 5% of the teams currently registered.
The rookie percentage of total teams will eventually be higher as rookies are typically late registers.

Waterloo finally filled their last general admission slot.

9 Regional events are in the single digits.
4 District events are single digit

2 District events have assigned all their initial open slots.
7 Regional events have assigned all their initial open slots.

Thank you for the data Mark! I always look forward to this part of the off-season.

Is it too early to ask how registration this year compares to last year?

[Mark McLeod]

Lake Superior is the next event to fill 25 hours after registration opened.
Northern Lights was filled next at 27 hours.

I'll get a comparison to last year at this time. I'm painting trim today and that slows me down a little.

[Greg Needel]

Originally Posted by Christopher149

Should be soon with this many teams. Just need to be able to get an organizing committee together.

I made a map of where teams are in China. There are 14 in the proximity of Hong Kong / Shenzhen. It is, however, about 1200 miles from Beijing where 2 teams are. So, my immediate reaction is hold it near Shenzhen and several teams will just have to fly (but they do that already to Hawaii or Sydney or elsewhere).

I would be willing to bet that when the regional in china happens it will be in the Shenzhen area. While there may be some teams inconvenienced by the travel distance, long distance affordable transit is much easier in china than in the USA (and much cheaper if you consider that right now all of the teams are coming to the USA). Both FIRST partners in china (Semia and Dadalele) have their Headquarters in Shenzhen along with the highest concentration of teams.

That being said, I thing that the growth will be very fast in china and they could possibly support two events in their first year (north and south). I am very interested to see how this develops over the next few years.

[mipo0707]

china team 5861 coming to gtr east a canadian regional

[Jimmy Nichols]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Lake Superior is the next event to fill 25 hours after registration opened.

I'll get a comparison to last year at this time. I'm painting trim today and that slows me down a little.

Just like I tell my team no scheduling other projects during build season. Mark, no scheduling other projects during Registration Season...Just teasing. Thanks for all the great stats!

[Mark McLeod]

We're actually under last year's registration rate.
Attached is a comparison of the first 12 hours over the past five seasons.
The second line down is this year.

[JB987]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

We're actually under last year's registration rate.
Attached is a comparison of the first 12 hours over the past five seasons.
The second line down is this year.

The rate may be lower because headquarters is maybe taking a harder line on YPP requirement of both lead and alternates having completed the task and many more teams than last year may be waiting for clearance to register?

[Mark McLeod]

We've had one local team that I've heard from with a new Alternate contact that did YPP at the last minute and couldn't register yesterday because of the ~3 day wait.

The same YPP requirements held last year didn't they?
Since YPP is good for 3 years I would think last year would have seen more of an impact since everyone had to get it done.
This year it's only changes in Main/Alternate that could be held up by YPP.
Of course there was more of a publicized YPP push last year, so more teams may have been caught flatfooted this year.

I wonder if any teams in the new districts are delayed in being assigned to events? I know Michigan has caused odd bumps in prior years when they held assignments, then released them all at once.

[MechEng83]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

We've had one local team that I've heard from with a new Alternate contact that did YPP at the last minute and couldn't register yesterday because of the ~3 day wait.

The same YPP requirements held last year didn't they?
Since YPP is good for 3 years I would think last year would have seen more of an impact since everyone had to get it done.
This year it's only changes in Main/Alternate that could be held up by YPP.
Of course there was more of a publicized YPP push last year, so more teams may have been caught flatfooted this year.

I wonder if any teams in the new districts are delayed in being assigned to events? I know Michigan has caused odd bumps in prior years when they held assignments, then released them all at once.

I don't know how widespread this was, but I know there was an issue with some district teams listed as a traditional event structure and couldn't register for their district event.

[Phoenix Spud]

Excited to see another country come to the FRC family! Welcome Team 5883 from Poland!

[Christopher149]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

We've had one local team that I've heard from with a new Alternate contact that did YPP at the last minute and couldn't register yesterday because of the ~3 day wait.

The same YPP requirements held last year didn't they?
Since YPP is good for 3 years I would think last year would have seen more of an impact since everyone had to get it done.
This year it's only changes in Main/Alternate that could be held up by YPP.
Of course there was more of a publicized YPP push last year, so more teams may have been caught flatfooted this year.

I wonder if any teams in the new districts are delayed in being assigned to events? I know Michigan has caused odd bumps in prior years when they held assignments, then released them all at once.

I know that in Michigan because you are guaranteed a spot at your home event (at least for sure this year) that a lot of teams are signing up very slowly (hopefully they'll have it done in a week or two).

[JB987]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

We've had one local team that I've heard from with a new Alternate contact that did YPP at the last minute and couldn't register yesterday because of the ~3 day wait.

The same YPP requirements held last year didn't they?
Since YPP is good for 3 years I would think last year would have seen more of an impact since everyone had to get it done.
This year it's only changes in Main/Alternate that could be held up by YPP.
Of course there was more of a publicized YPP push last year, so more teams may have been caught flatfooted this year.

I wonder if any teams in the new districts are delayed in being assigned to events? I know Michigan has caused odd bumps in prior years when they held assignments, then released them all at once.

Headquarters sent out a targeted email blast to 1200 Lead Mentors who had not completed the YPP as of the 21st... We were not one of them That may have resulted in a rush they couldn't handle in 3-4 days?