Registration 2016

[Jared Russell]

It is amazing that already China has the third highest number of registered teams (granted, Israel still has many more yet to show up, but still...)

I wonder how long it will be until China surpasses Canada. 2018?

[logank013]

Originally Posted by Jared Russell

It is amazing that already China has the third highest number of registered teams (granted, Israel still has many more yet to show up, but still...)

I wonder how long it will be until China surpasses Canada. 2018?

That's plausible but they'd need a second regional and probably a third assuming each team goes to 1 regional and each regional holds 60 teams. How many Canada teams are there in all? I'm assuming around 150.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by logank013

That's plausible but they'd need a second regional and probably a third assuming each team goes to 1 regional and each regional holds 60 teams. How many Canada teams are there in all? I'm assuming around 150.

Y'know, Mark did post the current registration numbers. Canada currently has 139 if you add the three provinces together.

And multiple regionals can be arranged, I'm sure. It was "only" 17 FRC seasons ago that CA had their first regional. The second followed two seasons later. The third took 3-4 years as I recall. The fourth followed another 3-4 years later. And another one came a long about the same amount of time later... but the last couple additions didn't take quite that long. It just takes a little time...

[MaGiC_PiKaChU]

Originally Posted by EricH

Y'know, Mark did post the current registration numbers. Canada currently has 139 if you add the three provinces together.

And multiple regionals can be arranged, I'm sure. It was "only" 17 FRC seasons ago that CA had their first regional. The second followed two seasons later. The third took 3-4 years as I recall. The fourth followed another 3-4 years later. And another one came a long about the same amount of time later... but the last couple additions didn't take quite that long. It just takes a little time...

it only shows registered teams! there was around 42 teams from QC last year and only 26 signed up for their first regional

[Mark McLeod]

Orlando & Silicon Valley booked up yesterday.

There were 197 Canadian teams last season.
As can be seen by the first weekend comparison,
in general, QC is slower signing up this year, while ON is quicker, and they offset each other for a Canadian registration pace that's pretty normal.
Canada is at ~ 76% of last year's final count.
All FRC is at ~ 72% of last year's final count.

2100 teams have registered.
130 rookies

[Mark McLeod]

Registration numbers finally surpassed last season at this same time.
2200 teams

[Lil' Lavery]

What's that bump that always occurs around the 3rd week of October? 2nd event registration causing more initial registrations? FiM teams getting enrolled? Grant approvals?

[Mark McLeod]

I ran the numbers but didn't have time for a graph. I'm traveling this weekend, so I won't be able to post the graph until Sunday.

[Allison K]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

What's that bump that always occurs around the 3rd week of October? 2nd event registration causing more initial registrations? FiM teams getting enrolled? Grant approvals?

FiM probably contributes to the bump. I'm currently showing 131 FiM teams not registered for their home event. I'm not sure what portion of those are passing on the home event vs. what portion are just slow to register because I didn't get numbers from last year, but I expect many are in the former category and will suddently show up on Thursday.

[Mark McLeod]

Here's another year-to-year comparison of registration numbers by area.
This at the time of the graph in my previous post, so they can be compared.

I'll go review just where the bump came from in previous years, but I think it's just the surge after the weekend, as the week starts and teams start registering during normal business hours. The phenomena is more pronounced early in registration and the effect gradually lessens as time goes by and the registration graph levels out.
In the graphs we can see weekend plateaus and weekday climbs. It's more obvious when the graph is zoomed in.

[Ed Law]

New Michigan district event on FIRST website. It is in Week 2. You would never guess where it is. It is a brilliant idea.

[Christopher149]

Originally Posted by Ed Law

New Michigan district event on FIRST website. It is in Week 2. You would never guess where it is. It is a brilliant idea.

I was going to say that the Bloomfield Hills event that had been posted a couple weeks back was happening. Kettering University Event #2 is not what I expected.

[Ed Law]

Originally Posted by Christopher149

I was going to say that the Bloomfield Hills event that had been posted a couple weeks back was happening. Kettering University Event #2 is not what I expected.

If it was at my own school building, first of all I would know, why would I say it was a brilliant idea. Kettering 2 is a brilliant idea because they only have to set up the field once, leave it there for the next weekend and take it down once. It saves so much volunteer time. Imagine finding a place that you can have a district competition every week for 6 weeks. That would be something.

[logank013]

Originally Posted by Christopher149

I was going to say that the Bloomfield Hills event that had been posted a couple weeks back was happening. Kettering University Event #2 is not what I expected.

Why does the Kettering event #2 say it has 7 registered teams and no open spots? Kettering event #1 has 5 open spots so maybe they are waiting to see if a second event is needed?

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by Ed Law

New Michigan district event on FIRST website. It is in Week 2. You would never guess where it is. It is a brilliant idea.

Is this the first time that the same venue is hosting two official competitions, during different weekends?