Registration 2017

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

I always love seeing those graphs, Mark... But with registration starting 2 weeks later this year because of the server issues, should we still show them all starting at the same time? My thinking is that the extra two weeks meant more teams had started up for the fall, figured out their finances, gotten grants, etc than we normally have on day 1, so it may not be a fair comparison to previous years. ....

Jon's point is valid, of course. However, I expect it can be addressed by annotation of the graph, as Mark has done previously, to indicate how key dates shift year-to-year.

[Mark McLeod]

Events that are on waitlist status:

Northern Lights Regional
Lake Superior Regional
San Diego Regional
St. Louis Regional
Greater Pittsburgh Regional
Los Angeles Regional
Silicon Valley Regional
SBPLI Long Island Regional
Minnesota North Star Regional
Minnesota 10000 Lakes Regional
Alamo Regional
New York City Regional
Seven Rivers Regional
Mexico City Regional
NE District - Granite State Event
NE District - WPI Event
ONT District - University of Waterloo Event


Single digit events:
1 - Shenzhen Regional
1 - Orlando Regional
1 - FIM District - Kettering University Event #1
1 - MAR District - Hatboro-Horsham Event
2 - Miami Valley Regional
3 - Festival de Robotique - Montreal Regional
3 - FIM District - Traverse City Event
4 - Greater Kansas City Regional
4 - Arizona West Regional
4 - CHS District - Greater DC Event
4 - FIM District - Midland Event
4 - MAR District - Mount Olive Event
5 - New York Tech Valley Regional
6 - NC District - Greensboro Event
6 - ONT District - Ryerson University Event
8 - FIM District - West Michigan Event
8 - PNW District - Glacier Peak Event
8 - PNW District - Lake Oswego Event
9 - NC District - Raleigh Event

[Mark McLeod]

16 countries
Here are where the event registered teams are from:

261 ----- MI
220 ----- CA
129 ----- Canada-ON
125 ----- NY
122 ----- MN
88 ----- TX
85 ----- WA
68 ----- NJ
65 ----- VA
61 ----- PA
60 ----- MA
54 ----- MO
54 ----- OH
53 ----- FL
51 ----- GA
49 ----- IL
48 ----- NC
47 ----- WI
47 ----- China
46 ----- CT
46 ----- IN
42 ----- OK
40 ----- AZ
35 ----- OR
35 ----- Canada-QC
33 ----- MD
30 ----- SC
26 ----- NH
25 ----- ME
24 ----- Turkey
22 ----- TN
21 ----- CO
18 ----- IA
18 ----- KS
18 ----- Australia
16 ----- LA
15 ----- HI
14 ----- Mexico
11 ----- UT
9 ----- AR
8 ----- AL
8 ----- ID
8 ----- KY
8 ----- NV
8 ----- Canada-AB
7 ----- DC
6 ----- Canada-BC
5 ----- MS
5 ----- RI
5 ----- Brazil
4 ----- VT
3 ----- DE
3 ----- WV
2 ----- ND
2 ----- NE
2 ----- NM
2 ----- WY
2 ----- Chile
2 ----- Netherlands
2 ----- United Kingdom
1 ----- AK
1 ----- MT
1 ----- SD
1 ----- Canada-SK
1 ----- Colombia
1 ----- France
1 ----- Germany
1 ----- Singapore
1 ----- Switzerland
1 ----- Taiwan

[lynca]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

47 ----- China
24 ----- Turkey
18 ----- Australia
14 ----- Mexico
5 ----- Brazil
2 ----- Chile
2 ----- Netherlands
2 ----- United Kingdom
1 ----- Colombia
1 ----- France
1 ----- Germany
1 ----- Singapore
1 ----- Switzerland
1 ----- Taiwan

Awesome list Mark ! China is growing fast !
Shenzen regional is roughly 50% rookies.

[vhcook]

Originally Posted by lynca

Awesome list Mark ! China is growing fast !
Shenzen regional is roughly 50% rookies.

Lots of growth in Turkey too.

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by lynca

Awesome list Mark ! China is growing fast !
Shenzen regional is roughly 50% rookies.

Originally Posted by vhcook

Lots of growth in Turkey too.

Quebec is growing also. I wonder how many years until they go District?

Which will be the first District with a main language other than English?

[Bluman56]

Originally Posted by Richard Wallace

Quebec is growing also. I wonder how many years until they go District?

Which will be the first District with a main language other than English?

Israel?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Bluman56

Israel?

I think we have a winner. Israel's official languages are Hebrew and Arabic, with Hebrew as the primary.

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by EricH

I think we have a winner. Israel's official languages are Hebrew and Arabic, with Hebrew as the primary.

Doh!




I forgot Israel has already taken the plunge. Didn't see anything here about it for the last month or so, and Mark's list doesn't have Israel (yet) due to registration timing.

[Caleb Sykes]

Originally Posted by Richard Wallace

Quebec is growing also. I wonder how many years until they go District?

Which will be the first District with a main language other than English?

Spanish might be the main language in California before they become a district.

[MaGiC_PiKaChU]

Originally Posted by Richard Wallace

Quebec is growing also. I wonder how many years until they go District?

Which will be the first District with a main language other than English?

How many years before we get a 2nd regional? seriously we are only attending one this year because Ontario is no longer an option

[Kevin Leonard]

Originally Posted by MaGiC_PiKaChU

How many years before we get a 2nd regional? seriously we are only attending one this year because Ontario is no longer an option

That stinks! I assumed 3360 would try to make the trip down to the Tech Valley Regional with 3990 at least.

When NE went districts, that's when the Tech Valley Regional started, as we could no longer go into New England from the Albany area. It's unfortunate that didn't happen with Montreal.

[Mark McLeod]

2468 = today's team count

Including:

• 13 resurrected veteran teams (the longest missing last played 6 years ago)
• 18 new "veteran" teams
• 156 rookie teams

27% of last season's teams (851) have not been heard from yet (not unusual).

[sanddrag]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

27% of last season's teams (851) have not been heard from yet (not unusual).

Wow. That's somewhat startling. 1/4 of teams don't show up for initial registration opening. I never knew that.

Do you have any stats on percentage of last year's rookies that have not yet shown up for year 2?

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Do you have any stats on percentage of last year's rookies that have not yet shown up for year 2?

~42% of 2nd year teams (last season's rookies) have not signed up for an event yet (167).

and in case you were going to ask ...

Last year at this time (given that this year's registration is a bit wonky)
~46% of 2nd year teams had not registered.

I think they are still slow starters.
My own local 2nd year team is still trying to get a new Alternate Contact & YPP in order to get registered.

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Wow. That's somewhat startling. 1/4 of teams don't show up for initial registration opening. I never knew that.

Remember that between 9% and 6% will not return this season and that means <20% of teams that are actually planning to return haven't been heard from.