Registration 2016

[logank013]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

1712 was also exploring the possibility of doing an early (preferably week 1) out of district play, but the options are pretty slim and mostly already filled. Indiana teams may have more options with FiM districts just across the border and being a more realistic option. MAR teams pretty much have to hope they can sneak into one of the 16 remaining Waterfords spots in week 1, or else there really isn't much available. We were really hoping to get into NOVA, but knew it wasn't likely.

In guessing NOVA is a regional but what is it? Thanks

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by logank013

In guessing NOVA is a regional but what is it? Thanks

Northern Virginia district event. See the post right before mine by the host team (1885).

Originally Posted by JesseK

NOVA teams are hungry! 29 spots filled, 5 available, the rest open for rookies. Man, we'll have to see if we can squeeze in some more teams at the school somewhere...

Should make for a fun Saturday night too.

[Knufire]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

1712 was also exploring the possibility of doing an early (preferably week 1) out of district play, but the options are pretty slim and mostly already filled. Indiana teams may have more options with FiM districts just across the border and being a more realistic option. MAR teams pretty much have to hope they can sneak into one of the 16 remaining Waterfords spots in week 1, or else there really isn't much available. We were really hoping to get into NOVA, but knew it wasn't likely.

We're in the same spot. Our ideal situtation is being able to get into Lake Superior/Northern Lights, but the MN events are pretty full year-to-year and we have no idea if there's going to be spots left by the time unrestricted registration comes around. Going up to Michigan or down to North Carolina are our backup options.

[notmattlythgoe]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Northern Virginia district event. See the post right before mine by the host team (1885).

With 2 events on week 3 and only 1 event week 1 I knew this would be the first event filled. Glad Nate decided to sign us up for it first instead of our home event.

[EDesbiens]

Come to Montreal guys! There's plenty of room left and we are friendly

[Brian Maher]

Originally Posted by JesseK

NOVA teams are hungry! 29 spots filled, 5 available, the rest open for rookies. Man, we'll have to see if we can squeeze in some more teams at the school somewhere...

Should make for a fun Saturday night too.

Week 1 district events fill quickly from my experience.

Of MAR's 66 week 1 spots (Mount Olive and Hatboro Horsham), all but eight are filled.

[JesseK]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

1712 was also exploring the possibility of doing an early (preferably week 1) out of district play, but the options are pretty slim and mostly already filled. Indiana teams may have more options with FiM districts just across the border and being a more realistic option. MAR teams pretty much have to hope they can sneak into one of the 16 remaining Waterfords spots in week 1, or else there really isn't much available. We were really hoping to get into NOVA, but knew it wasn't likely.

I heard, though haven't confirmed, CHS has 7 spots for 3rd-district or inter-district play. That's 1-ish spot per event, assuming projections for rookie teams hold. Reasonable since it's the first year, but I'd go for what you want nonetheless. Haven't seen you in a while!

Originally Posted by BMSOTM

Week 1 district events fill quickly from my experience.

Of MAR's 66 week 1 spots (Mount Olive and Hatboro Horsham), all but eight are filled.

This is good to know. I had no idea.

[tindleroot]

Originally Posted by Knufire

We're in the same spot. Our ideal situtation is being able to get into Lake Superior/Northern Lights, but the MN events are pretty full year-to-year and we have no idea if there's going to be spots left by the time unrestricted registration comes around. Going up to Michigan or down to North Carolina are our backup options.

Your odds of making a Michigan event are extremely low. We tried last year but all of the events were full. Not surprising, with the number of FiM teams there are. However, this year Midwest is week 5 so that is an option later if you want to play some out of district teams before DCMP. Other than that, Chesapeake or North Carolina events may be a good option.

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by BMSOTM

Week 1 district events fill quickly from my experience.

Of MAR's 66 week 1 spots (Mount Olive and Hatboro Horsham), all but eight are filled.

I think that may be coincidence. Other districts still have significant availabilities in their week 1 events. I think it's mostly that Hatboro Horsham and Mount Olive are both long standing and well respected MAR districts in good locations.

[MaGiC_PiKaChU]

Originally Posted by EDesbiens

Come to Montreal guys! There's plenty of room left and we are friendly

we're registering on 2nd wave! We had to get at spot at GTRC before it was full

[PayneTrain]

Originally Posted by JesseK

I heard, though haven't confirmed, CHS has 7 spots for 3rd-district or inter-district play. That's 1-ish spot per event, assuming projections for rookie teams hold. Reasonable since it's the first year, but I'd go for what you want nonetheless. Haven't seen you in a while!

They're estimating an increase of 10 teams to the pool? Life is so interesting.

[Jimmy Nichols]

Originally Posted by Knufire

We're in the same spot. Our ideal situtation is being able to get into Lake Superior/Northern Lights, but the MN events are pretty full year-to-year and we have no idea if there's going to be spots left by the time unrestricted registration comes around. Going up to Michigan or down to North Carolina are our backup options.

You could always jump back over to a traditional event and come to Cincinnati for QCR.

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Nichols

You could always jump back over to a traditional event and come to Cincinnati for QCR.

+1. We've been there a few times; it's always a quality event with quality teams (but they let us come anyway).

[Aren Siekmeier]

Originally Posted by Knufire

We're in the same spot. Our ideal situtation is being able to get into Lake Superior/Northern Lights, but the MN events are pretty full year-to-year and we have no idea if there's going to be spots left by the time unrestricted registration comes around. Going up to Michigan or down to North Carolina are our backup options.

There are usually 1 or 2 extra spots in Duluth by the 3rd round. Team 27 has done it for a few years now. Good idea to contact the RPC to feel it out. Great event at a great venue, would be cool to have you!

[Mark McLeod]

Sorry I was busy this past weekend and fell behind here.

I took a look at what was the origin of the lower initial registration between last year and this year. The attached image compares team registration by the first weekend after opening, and is just the difference between last season and this season (negative means fewer teams from that location registered this year, positive means more registered this year).

It seems to be the PNW District somewhat offset by gains in China.

Registration slowed over the weekend as it usually does.
We passed 1900 teams around 5 o'clock on Monday.
We can see by the second attachment that registration has at least met up with last year, even though we know it must be ahead by a margin.
P.S. The dates on the base axis of the second chart are normalized to changing opening dates back to 2005 and don't reflect the current dates.