Registration Open - How are we doing?

[dez250]

Originally posted by dez250
yay! 901 teams on 11-6-03 at 1pm est, come on just 99 more teams we need to break 1000 in under a month now. We can do it.
~Mike

i guess they saw my post cause only 4 hours later, there are now 907 teams, with another brazillian team, so by my counts that a ton more canadian teams, 2 more brazillian and 1 new mexican team this year so far.

Lets keep it going!
~Mike

The Official Team List

[edit]ok 1 min after i posted this i checked and ok... its now 908 teams[/edit]

[BandChick]

915 teams! and we still have PLENTY of time...

maybe we'll get to 950 this year? or close?

[Ken Leung]

It is unfortunate that some of the veteran California teams from last year aren't on the list anymore. I have a feeling it's not just in Bay Area that that's happening. I heard a lot of teams couldn't raise enough money to pay for the registration fee and have to fold.

That's probably one good demonstration that money can prevent FIRST's growth. When there simply isn't enough to go around, teams just can't afford to do FIRST anymore. But that belongs in another thread.

I am very happy to hear there are 915 teams registered. It only seems like yesterday when there were barely 200~300 teams back at 99' for Double Trouble. Back then the NASA Ames regional was the only west coast regional. Now we have 6, thanks for Jason Morrella getting extremely addicted after attending the 99' regional.

[dez250]

Hey I just talked with our favorite webmaster for CD, and if you look in your upper left corner of CD, you will now see an auto updating counter of teams registered with first that are displayed on the Official FIRST Team List . So as i am typing this, i currently see 919 teams registered. Thats about 20 teams in a 24 hour time span. If we keep this rate up, we definitely will break the 1000 team mark by December 5th.

~Mike

P.S.- THANK YOU BRANDON

[Joe Matt]

It's 920 now! It's not auto live updating!

That's a cool feature, thanks Brandon.

[SarahB]

Originally posted by dez250
If we keep this rate up, we definitely will break the 1000 team mark by December 5th.

Unless some teams drop out of their 2nd regional and no one signs up for a 3rd, there's no way to make the 1000 mark. There are only 78 spots left at regionals and even as of now 7 of the rookies aren't signed up for a regional yet(as shown by their really high number, eg 1000791).

[dez250]

Originally posted by SarahB
Unless some teams drop out of their 2nd regional and no one signs up for a 3rd, there's no way to make the 1000 mark. There are only 78 spots left at regionals and even as of now 7 of the rookies aren't signed up for a regional yet(as shown by their really high number, eg 1000791).

yeah i noticed that, i am hoping that some teams do drop out, cause i really want to break 950 and possibly 1000. check out my next post in a new topic about spots for rookies...
~Mike

[Andrew]

Looks like 935 is the final tally.

http://www.usfirst.org/frc/map/FMPro...-max=all&-find

[adunakin]

Looks like one more joined...a new country in our midst! Bienvenidos los de Quito, Ecuador! Viva!