Registration 2017

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Nips

Who are the 60 teams going to 3 events and the 1 team going to 4 events?

4 events = 125

The attachment lists the sixty 3-event teams.

Only four Regionals show open registration slots, although waitlists on the others remain unknown.
2 -- Arkansas Rock City Regional
3 -- Arizona North Regional
12 - Idaho Regional
18 - Western Canada Regional

[bobbysq]

Originally Posted by Nips

Who are the 60 teams going to 3 events and the 1 team going to 4 events?

If I were to guess, a good amount of the teams going to 3 events at this point are the ones pre-qualified for Worlds by winning Chairmans at a previous Championship, winning Einstein, or winning Engineering Inspiration in their division.

https://www.thebluealliance.com/event/2017cmpmo
https://www.thebluealliance.com/event/2017cmptx

[Mark McLeod]

I didn't count Championship signups, just regular events.

Eventually, District Championships and the two World Championships will up the total, but that'll be months from now.

[Mark McLeod]

It seems like all District events went to waitlist status before opening for cross-district registration.
That was 100 open slots.

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

All District events reached waitlist status before 1 pm.
That was 100 open slots.

How many of them reached waitlist not because of new sign-ups but because they lowered the capacity? I know CHS lowered capacities to match their current registration.

[Mark McLeod]

I'm double checking now, but most of the slots that disappeared were in Ontario.

P.S.
Every district went to zero before cross-district registration.
The only event that added a team was NE- Greater Boston

[Michael Kaurich]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

How many of them reached waitlist not because of new sign-ups but because they lowered the capacity? I know CHS lowered capacities to match their current registration.

It wasn't to match current registration but to match the size events venues could handle. Last year had a few venues that were much too tight.

Lower registration numbers just make it easier to not add an eighth event.

Late registering teams isn't a huge factor from what I understand as the lower limits were set before registration began.

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Michael Kaurich

It wasn't to match current registration but to match the size events venues could handle. Last year had a few venues that were much too tight.

Lower registration numbers just make it easier to not add an eighth event.

Late registering teams isn't a huge factor from what I understand as the lower limits were set before registration began.

Last night events were showing open slots and higher capacities. This morning the capacities had been lowered so that all CHS (and apparently other districts as well) showed 0 capacity. This includes events like CHS Blacksburg, which only has 29 teams registered and yesterday was showing 7 open slots, and ONT Victoria Park, which is currently sitting at only 22 teams registered (beneath the 24 required for a full elimination round bracket). It appears someone at FIRST wanted all Inter-District registrations to occur via the wait list process.

[Mark McLeod]

There have been a lot of teams (59) added to FIM events since 3 or 4 o'clock this afternoon.
They've all been waitlisted district events since Oct 14.

P.S.
124 total added to FIM events by the next morning.

[rsisk]

Originally Posted by bkahl

Guilty

No surprise there. I don't know how you guys do it. Just building a robot that can survive that much play is amazing

[Brandon Holley]

Originally Posted by rsisk

No surprise there. I don't know how you guys do it. Just building a robot that can survive that much play is amazing

We can't help ourselves. With additional District events being reasonably cheap, and most of our events occurring Fri-Sun, we can compete more frequently without heavy financial or school absence burden.

-Brando

[Mark McLeod]

Texas added five teams from the waitlist or late registrations.
We're waitlist locked right now, so it takes RD/FIRST action now to add new teams.

Probably ~200+ more teams will add in, including the whole country of Israel.

[Mark McLeod]

The Pittsburgh Regional opened up a bunch of free slots that had been on their waitlist. Apparently they want to encourage more teams to apply.

We're at 3174 teams. Things seized up a bit when so many events became waitlist locked.

[bdaroz]

Also keep in mind the Israeli district hasn't opened up yet either, which will give a nice boost to team count.

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

The Pittsburgh Regional opened up a bunch of free slots that had been on their waitlist. Apparently they want to encourage more teams to apply.

We're at 3174 teams. Things seized up a bit when so many events became waitlist locked.

If any of you registered Buckeye folks want to transfer over to Pittsburgh to make room for us at Buckeye, that would be SWELL.