Registration 2017

[Aren Siekmeier]

District event registration opened today at noon. Public facing APIs and database queries were disabled until now, it seems that they are all up again.

https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index....=FRC&year=2017
http://173.255.246.196/2017/
http://frclinks.frclinks.com/

I imagine http://www.thebluealliance.com/ will pick up all these changes eventually as well.

For the moment all regional events and both champs have been removed from FIRST's event list, showing only district events.

[Mark McLeod]

Restarting registration with only District teams today (Regional teams tomorrow).
560 district teams registered by the half hour.
The current rate of event registration is roughly 2 teams/minute
3.7% are rookies

Granite State is full of course.
WPI will be a close second, but not yet.

[Trying to Help]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

560 district teams registered by the half hour.

Granite State is full of course.
WPI will be a close second, but not yet.

1729 is happy to be attending Granite State once again!

[cgodzyk]

Mark,

what is the lowest number rookie for 2017?

[Mark McLeod]

6300, but that team isn't visible yet.
The lowest currently visible rookie team number is 6312

[FrankJ]

At 12:05 registration worked with no lag. 2974 is going to PCH Dalton for its first event.

[Mark McLeod]

Comparing with last year's numbers, it looks like a joint registration would have been an almost even split with Regional teams being only a few percent more than District teams, so that likely cut the server surge load in half.
We'll see tomorrow.

[Rosiebotboss]

I registered my team, Rosie 839, for WPI (in NE) at 12:00:40. The team count was at 7 open slots when I logged off at 12:02.

[Daler99]

Originally Posted by Rosiebotboss

I registered my team, Rosie 839, for WPI (in NE) at 12:00:40. The team count was at 7 open slots when I logged off at 12:02.

5813 is looking forward to competing at the 2017 WPI District event! As of right now, WPI has only 1 open slot.

[NShep98]

Originally Posted by Daler99

5813 is looking forward to competing at the 2017 WPI District event! As of right now, WPI has only 1 open slot.

I had no idea WPI would still be so popular given the unusual scheduling.

[nuclearnerd]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

560 district teams registered by the half hour.
The current rate of event registration is roughly 2 teams/minute
3.7% are rookies

is that a normal rate for rookies on the first day? From a previous thread, it looks like somewhere between 10-15% of 2nd year teams fold, so I would have expected many more rookie teams to prop up the FIRST growth rate.

[petercooperjr]

Originally Posted by NShep98

I had no idea WPI would still be so popular given the unusual scheduling.

NE Teams that won't (or prefer not to) compete on Sundays have few options.

That, and the WPI event is awesome.

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by nuclearnerd

is that a normal rate for rookies on the first day?

Pretty normal.
The rookie rate rises much higher later on.
They are generally slower getting organized.

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Comparing with last year's numbers, it looks like a joint registration would have been an almost even split with Regional teams being only a few percent more than District teams, so that likely cut the server surge load in half.
We'll see tomorrow.

District registration tends to be less restrictive, as teams are bound to their own district and don't have to worry about far away teams competing for their spots. FiM and PNW also have assigned "home events" that make the process even less competitive for first registration events. In the end, there's far less need for teams to rush to register during the first 90 seconds of the process being open.

We'll see how this plays out with regional teams.

[Ken Streeter]

Originally Posted by petercooperjr

NE Teams that won't (or prefer not to) compete on Sundays have few options.

This year, "few options" is actually zero "options" (if option implies a choice) for NE District teams who won't compete on Sundays.

The only way for such teams to attend two NE District Events is to go to WPI (Week 2) and Pine Tree (Week 5).

Some would say we should count our blessings that we at least have one pair of events on different weeks that aren't on a Sunday.

Guess which events 1519 will be attending?