Registration 2017

[mwmac]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

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

Come on Travis I thought you were coming out to Idaho!

[niklas674]

Originally Posted by mwmac

Come on Travis I thought you were coming out to Idaho!

everyone should come to Idaho. It's sure to be a great event again. We are looking forward to coming back.

[Mark McLeod]

Hawaii just freed up 5 open slots to invite more teams, too.

[P.J.]

Regarding Michigan, at the Bloomfield Hills All Girl Event this past Saturday Gail Alpert (the President of FiM) announced that we would be adding two more events in the state. One in the Saginaw area and another "north of Flint," bringing the Michigan district total to 23 events.

Still no word on the location of the state championship.

[tjwolter]

From earlier in this thread. When submitting for a Kickoff event I kept getting something that said Information Saved instead of, Yep, good to go. I called FIRST and they said that's how it functions. I will double check to make sure the Kickoff event has us down and that our KoP will be delivered there.

Some odd "intermittent glitches" with the site. It took weeks for our payment for Regionals to show up there. And with some back and forth on scheduling we have Waitlisted and Cancelled several options for a second Regional. I probably clicked the Drop button ten times on Northern Lights (sorry guys, maybe next year) and it refused to work. Until of course I had a nice lady from FIRST on the line. Then, click...done.

Its like taking your car to the shop because it was making a funny sound...until it stops doing so.

T.Wolter

[Christopher149]

The event list currently lists 147 events - I remember it being 145 for a few weeks. Which events are new? (all I know is that they are not in Michigan)

Edit: They must have been badly formatted, since they are now definitely showing as Michigan.

[Mark McLeod]

District Event FIM District - Gaylord Event, Gaylord High School, Gaylord, MI USA, 16-Mar - 18-Mar-2017

District Event FIM District - Shepherd Event, Shepherd High School, Shepherd, MI USA, 06-Apr - 08-Apr-2017


3200 Teams now

PS
- 21 resurrected vets
- 11 new vets
- 353 rookie teams
- 314 missing vets (10%)

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Christopher149

The event list currently lists 147 events - I remember it being 145 for a few weeks. Which events are new? (all I know is that they are not in Michigan)

Or maybe they are.

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

District Event FIM District - Gaylord Event Gaylord High School Gaylord, MI USA 16-Mar - 18-Mar-2017

District Event FIM District - Shepherd Event Shepherd High School Shepherd, MI USA 06-Apr - 08-Apr-2017

Michigan just keeps chugging along. 61 rookie teams so far for 2017. ~96% YoY retention and 11% YoY growth. ~15% of FRC teams are from Michigan.

Michigan will hold 3 district events in Week 1, and four events per week in Weeks 2-6. Lots of busy people, especially key volunteers.

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

3200 Teams now

Wow.

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Hawaii just freed up 5 open slots to invite more teams, too.

In part to allow more China teams to come.

[Michael Kaurich]

Originally Posted by Richard Wallace

Michigan just keeps chugging along. 61 rookie teams so far for 2017. ~96% YoY retention and 11% YoY growth. ~15% of FRC teams are from Michigan.

Michigan will hold 3 district events in Week 1, and four events per week in Weeks 2-6. Lots of busy people, especially key volunteers.

I am curious how that YoY retention is attained. Is it purely because of the funding from the State for registration costs? Or has the dream truly been realized where the program is in beaded in the school culture so well that when the lead mentor leaves there is a school push for a replacement?

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by Richard Wallace

Michigan will hold 3 district events in Week 1, and four events per week in Weeks 2-6. Lots of busy people, especially key volunteers.

That is absolutely insane. Michigan key volunteers are champs.

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

- 314 missing vets (10%)

Apologies if I missed it elsewhere in the thread, but is that a typical amount of missing veterans compared to previous years? Can you do a breakdown of team age for the missing vets?

[bobbysq]

Iowa appears to be filled at 60 teams. I doubt they'll add any more waitlist slots unless an Iowa rookie shows up at the last minute.

[Brandon Holley]

Originally Posted by Richard Wallace

Michigan will hold 3 district events in Week 1, and four events per week in Weeks 2-6. Lots of busy people, especially key volunteers.

Wow that is incredible.

Michigan officially needs its own Blue Alliance GameDay page each week....

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Karibou

Apologies if I missed it elsewhere in the thread, but is that a typical amount of missing veterans compared to previous years? Can you do a breakdown of team age for the missing vets?

Until the Israeli teams register, I don't think too much should be read into that.

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Karibou

Apologies if I missed it elsewhere in the thread, but is that a typical amount of missing veterans compared to previous years? Can you do a breakdown of team age for the missing vets?

The average loss of veteran teams over the past 5 years has been 214/yr or an average retention rate of 92.4%
Last year the vet retention rate was 94.2%, the best it's ever been in any year.

I do have a breakdown, but I'm working an off-season for the next two days, so I won't be able to get to it right away.
We also have a week left to open registration and a bubble that typically peaks about two weeks later around mid-December then drops back over a couple of months as a few teams fail to make their payments or drop out due to other issues.
Israel is probably the largest block of missing vets, but locally Long Island also has four vets on waitlist that are trying to get resolved with the lack of playing space at the LI Regional. I'm sure other areas have common issues, too.