Registration 2016

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Aren Siekmeier

I've always heard that 2006 was the first year of serpentine, after the intro of 3v3 in 05.

That's correct. 2005 went 1-8, 1-8, top 8 remaining as backup (instead of the 1-8, 1-8, 2v2 matches previously used). 2006 went 1-8, 8-1, top 8 remaining as backup.

Except at IRI, but that's another discussion entirely.

[Mark McLeod]

3100 teams now.

[first3234]

Dose anyone know if district competitions are still going to be 40 team max

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by first3234

Dose anyone know if district competitions are still going to be 40 team max

Likely. It starts being real hard to get 12 matches if you have more than 40 teams.

[Christopher149]

Originally Posted by first3234

Dose anyone know if district competitions are still going to be 40 team max

I can tell you that Escanaba and Traverse City would be very hard-pressed to fit >40 teams in their pits. FIM has to add 2-3 district events on top of the 19 we already have for 2016.

[Basel A]

Originally Posted by Christopher149

I can tell you that Escanaba and Traverse City would be very hard-pressed to fit >40 teams in their pits. FIM has to add 2-3 district events on top of the 19 we already have for 2016.

A bunch of Michigan districts would have a hard time fitting more teams. The extra district events will be added. In fact, one has been confirmed* already: Week 6 in Ann Arbor.


*although nothing is really official until it gets posted online

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by Christopher149

I can tell you that Escanaba and Traverse City would be very hard-pressed to fit >40 teams in their pits. FIM has to add 2-3 district events on top of the 19 we already have for 2016.

Escanaba might be able to do it if they got creative, but you couldn't add too many more. You could probably fit another row in the hall between the pit gym and the field, but you'd sacrifice having the nice, wide aisles. Of course, you'd also have to figure out how to get >40 teams to want to go to Escanaba*...



*disclaimer: Escanaba is an awesome, fantastic, 100%-would-attend-again event, but I don't blame anyone who does not want to drive 8+ hours and end up in the UP in the middle of winter.

[Christopher149]

Originally Posted by Karibou

Escanaba might be able to do it if they got creative, but you couldn't add too many more. You could probably fit another row in the hall between the pit gym and the field, but you'd sacrifice having the nice, wide aisles.

Putting some pits against the windows? Otherwise, where'd the cafeteria go? (we fill half of it as it is)

Gail sent an email where the Ann Arbor event is all but guaranteed, and she's looking into the possibility of a second UP event week 5.

[wireties]

Has anyone gotten in off the Dallas wait lists?

TIA

[ebarker]

How can I get a list, preferable in spreadsheet of ALL current teams, by team number and location.

I need to run an analytic s exercise so I can calculate team density, by program, state population, etc... it is an update for a thing I did a few years ago,,,, need it for an upcoming briefing.

I need a table that looks like

1311, FRC, GA
... and so on for the 3,000+ FRC entries, and FTC, FLL, JrFLL

actually all I need to know is how may teams exist by program by type by geographical area

so how many FRC teams are in each state / province, country
ditto for FTC, FLL, JRFLL

I don't really need the team numbers.

Thanks,

-eb

[Brian Maher]

If you have any programming ability, The Blue Alliance API can be used to access a ton of data on FRC teams, including location. Unfortunately, it does not cover the other three programs.

[Rachel Lim]

Originally Posted by ebarker

How can I get a list, preferable in spreadsheet of ALL current teams, by team number and location.

I need to run an analytic s exercise so I can calculate team density, by program, state population, etc... it is an update for a thing I did a few years ago,,,, need it for an upcoming briefing.

I need a table that looks like

1311, FRC, GA
... and so on for the 3,000+ FRC entries, and FTC, FLL, JrFLL

actually all I need to know is how may teams exist by program by type by geographical area

so how many FRC teams are in each state / province, country
ditto for FTC, FLL, JRFLL

I don't really need the team numbers.

Thanks,

-eb

You can use the My Area search: https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index....age=searchform

You'll probably need to use excel or something to extract the state abbreviation from the location, but I think it has team data for all levels.

[GeeTwo]

If you go to the "What teams and events are in my area" link on usfirst, you can get an exhaustive list of teams for any recent year, unfortunately only 25 per page, but the page number is in the URL, so you can script wget or similar calls to just keep getting 25 at a time until you're done. Leave the state at "All States" and radius at the "- Select -" value, and you'll get the world. The usfirst site supposedly only reflects teams that have registered, so the numbers are always low for the current year. However, they are always filled with "ghost teams" that never show up at an event. Oh - as I look at it now, this only covers US teams will that be enough?.

[Mark McLeod]

Registration closed at noon today at 3163 teams.
It's increased by two teams since then, so FIRST is not quite done yet.

[Christopher149]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Registration closed at noon today at 3163 teams.
It's increased by two teams since then, so FIRST is not quite done yet.

And Michigan's at 418 teams. Michigan is going to have to go out of state if it wants third plays.