[FRC Blog] 2017 FIRST Championships Allocations for Districts

[MechEng83]

Originally Posted by Ernst

I was curious about this.

Using 2016 numbers and accounting for 3114 of 3130 teams (there are 16 hiding somewhere):

North: 1766 teams
South: 1348 teams

That's including the US, Canada, Israel, China, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, and a few other smaller countries.

The blog post mentions

So there's your answer.


I wonder how much FIRST looked at team counts before drawing the lines? Or if it was more based on population? Really populous states like Texas, California, and Florida are all in the south, but they're currently lagging behind many northern and eastern states in teams/person.

If you look at the 2017 vs 2018 distribution, it looks like the distributions are not quite as drastic long term.

Using 2016 numbers, there were 22 Kansas teams and 73 Missouri teams, which are part of the North Champs in 2017, but will be part of the South Champs in 2018.

Those 95 teams skew the balance. In 2018 the distribution, using Ernst's numbers would be:

North: 1671
South: 1443

I wonder if we can move another logical grouping of 114 teams to balance out the numbers!

P.S. This assumes that team growth is uniform throughout all of FIRSTdom, which Michigan has been ruining for a while now.

[adciv]

Originally Posted by MechEng83

P.S. This assumes that team growth is uniform throughout all of FIRSTdom, which Michigan has been ruining for a while now.

Which brings up an interesting question. What will FIRST do if the existing team imbalance between North and South increases? When do we rebalance?

[Harrison.Smith]

Just curious, how many teams are let in off the waitlist every year?