Registration 2017

[Nate Laverdure]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

A school in Guam has started two teams-6308 & 6309.

We welcome these teams to the GuamFIRST family!

[Mark McLeod]

Registration closed with 3251 teams on event lists.
There are probably around 50 or 60 teams not showing up because they are still on a waitlist somewhere, and rookie teams getting things together last minute (we have one local rookie who was still awaiting YPP clearance).
And of course, everyone from the Israeli District which hasn't made an appearance yet.

So expect that number of teams to continue climbing before dropping back again over the next few weeks.

[Mark McLeod]

One Israeli team has finally shown up as registered!
It's the first outward evidence that Israel is actually running waitlists for all their events.
So the Israeli teams are there, just not being shown to us.

The one team shows up because they have registered for an Inter-District at
2017 FIM District - Lake Superior State University Event

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

One Israeli team has finally shown up as registered!
It's the first outward evidence that Israel is actually running waitlists for all their events.
So the Israeli teams are there, just not being shown to us.

The one team shows up because they have registered for an Inter-District at
2017 FIM District - Lake Superior State University Event

That is one long commute!

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

That is one long commute!

Yes it is! For almost anyone.

It would be a 5.5 hour drive for me, and I live in Michigan.

Best flight time from Tel Aviv that I saw is 12.5 hours, connecting through Toronto.

[Christopher149]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

That is one long commute!

And, it means at least one team found an open spot in Michigan (funny though that they aren't from Ontario or Indiana).

I wonder if they plan to attend the Israel district champs - that event goes through March 30, but LSSU starts on March 30.

Originally Posted by Richard Wallace

Yes it is! For almost anyone.

It would be a 5.5 hour drive for me, and I live in Michigan.

Best flight time from Tel Aviv that I saw is 12.5 hours, connecting through Toronto.

I too live in Michigan, and it's a 5 hour drive (from my northwestern corner).

[Mark McLeod]

Events are still shuffling teams in and out.
3270 at the moment.

• 25 resurrected vets
• 12 new "vets"
• 402 Rookie teams
• 299 missing vets-9.6% attrition (or calculated another way: missing - resurrected =~ 8.8% overall attrition)
• 4.5% growth (but we're still missing all but one team from Israel)

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Events are still shuffling teams in and out.
3270 at the moment.

• 299 missing vets-9.6% retention (or calculated another way: missing - resurrected =~ 8.8% overall retention)
  

I think the right word above would be "attrition".

Retention = 100% - Attrition

[SoftwareBug2.0]

Has there been any word on why the Israel district isn't getting its teams registered? What possible advantage could this have? It seems like all the events are in place since there seems to be an appropriate number of them and they all have venues listed.

[nirmatt_1690]

Registration for the israel district will open next week.

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Richard Wallace

I think the right word above would be "attrition".

Retention = 100% - Attrition

Fixed that, thanks.
I originally typed the retention number then reversed it as I posted without really thinking about it.

Thanks too for the Israeli update.

[Mark McLeod]

Here's a chart or two to go along with this.

The red dots labeled "Self Parity" are where the yearly plotted lines each rose above that year's actual final registration total, i.e., teams were still being added in from the waitlists, but others eventually dropped out before competition play.
This year is unusual (in more ways than this) in that the entire Israeli contingent won't begin adding in until next week, so expect a 65 team bump.

P.S. Added the legend

[Cothron Theiss]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Here's a chart or two to go along with this.

The red dots labeled "Self Parity" are where the yearly plotted lines each rose above that year's actual final registration total, i.e., teams were still being added in from the waitlists, but others eventually dropped out before competition play.
This year is unusual (in more ways than this) in that the entire Israeli contingent won't begin adding in until next week, so expect a 65 team bump.

The graph showing self parity is very interesting. Any explanation for the dip in 2011 after kickoff?

Also, can you shed some light on the bar graph, especially what that slight blue/grey bar portion between the blue and yellow?

[bobbysq]

Originally Posted by Cothron Theiss

Also, can you shed some light on the bar graph, especially what that slight blue/grey bar portion between the blue and yellow?

I believe that's revived vets.

[Mark McLeod]

Yep, resurrected veteran teams.
I updated the image with a legend.
The red will decrease as the Israeli teams finally show up.

The 2011 dip was Washington state balancing experienced/rookie teams between the Cascade and Olympic regional playing fields (all at the same location). What they did was over several days they removed all the teams and then put them back onto different fields.
http://www.firstwa.org/Team-Resource...ld-Assignments