Registration 2016

[first3234]

3234 will be at east Kentwood district and we are currently waitlisted for gull lake

[Mark McLeod]

Team 6000 is the Shalhevet School in Los Angeles, CA

[D_Price]

Team 1708 will be attending the Pittsburgh Regional again this year along with one other one TBA! So excited for this years game.

[The_ShamWOW88]

Little random but I'm just going to say I'm impressed with the growth of teams internationally. Great to see it really become a worldwide program.

[Mark McLeod]

Here are the international scores.
19 countries heard from.

25---Australia
6----Brazil
186--Canada
2----Chile
31---China
1----Colombia
1----Czech Republic
2----Dominican Republic
1----Ecuador
1----Germany
40---Israel
39---Mexico
2----Netherlands
1----Poland
1----Singapore
1----Taiwan
10---Turkey
2----United Kingdom
2394-USA

[djdaugherty]

What happens to the wait lists when the 2nd registration opens Thursday? It's been a while since our team has attended more than one competition. The two sites we were considering have zero capacity now. Does that mean we should consider somewhere else, or will that capacity be increased for the 2nd round? If capacity is increased, do they pull from the existing wait list first?

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by djdaugherty

What happens to the wait lists when the 2nd registration opens Thursday? It's been a while since our team has attended more than one competition. The two sites we were considering have zero capacity now. Does that mean we should consider somewhere else, or will that capacity be increased for the 2nd round? If capacity is increased, do they pull from the existing wait list first?

The waitlist is not strictly "first come, first served". The RD's prioritize teams that are rookies or first plays ahead of teams looking for a second play. There may be other considerations as well (local teams vs non-local, bringing a lot of volunteers, etc). That said, there is only one waitlist per event - if you go on it Thursday, you'll be behind everyone else already on it.

Your best bet is to look at the historical size for those two events - how many teams are usually at them?. That will give you an idea of how many teams will be pulled off the waitlist later to bring it up to full. Some events are actually already full, with no room to expand!. After that, look at the new color coding for the waitlist for the two events. As explained in the FRC blog, the color coding can give you an idea of how big the wait list currently is, versus the number of spots that will be available.

[Lil' Lavery]

Also keep in mind the new color coding system for the waitlist.

[djdaugherty]

Thank you very much - that helps a lot!

[Christopher149]

Michigan's Gull Lake event is going to be moving from week 2 to week 3 if it doesn't change venues (insert grumble about our home event also being week 3). This will leave Michigan with only 1 week 2 event 2 week 2 events (I forgot about Kettering #2).

[Phoenix Spud]

Welcome India - FRC Team 6024!

I first met R-Factor at the 2013 FLL API where they won the Champions Award. At the 2015 FTC API they won the Inspire Award and completely won the judge's hearts. And now they officially registered for the 2016 Sydney Regional.

They are the FIRST progression in action!

[nuclearnerd]

Apologies if this has been asked before:

In TIMS, will the registration link appear automatically at noon after logging in, or do you a) have to refresh the page yourself, or b) log in no earlier than noon? I ask because I expect the seconds to count today.

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by nuclearnerd

Apologies if this has been asked before:

In TIMS, will the registration link appear automatically at noon after logging in, or do you a) have to refresh the page yourself, or b) log in no earlier than noon? I ask because I expect the seconds to count today.

You can be logged in ready to go, but the page does not automatically refresh for you.

Good luck!

[nuclearnerd]

Originally Posted by Wetzel

You can be logged in ready to go, but the page does not automatically refresh for you.

Good luck!

Thanks!

[lynca]

This Regional Availability site is great. http://173.255.246.196/2016/
Thank you to whoever wrote this code.

FIRST & RobotEvents should setup a similar page for all the competitions (FTC, FLL, VEX, VEXiq...)