How many teams in 2005?

[tkwetzel]

Will Michigan host 100 teams this year?

They are up to 70 already!

[Cory]

Originally Posted by tkwetzel

Will Michigan host 100 teams this year?

They are up to 70 already!

Michigan was over 100 last year, I believe.

CA and Michigan trade the lead. I want to say CA had 96 last year and Michigan had slightly more than 100

[tkwetzel]

I didn't think that MI had more than 100 teams last, though you are most likely right.

And as of right now, CA is only at 41 teams.

[Denman]

519 teams signed up at this point... going strong
highest rookie 1538 @ vegas

[Manoel]

555 teams and the newest rookie is from England...
Team 1542, exscitec/Imperial College & Issac Newton Centre, from London. Pretty cool!

[LBK Rules]

2nd-year teams, especialy non-school ones, probably won't get in early. I'm on one.

[Doug G]

I bet it will be just over a 1000 teams, maybe 1100 tops. The $500 deposit is probably keeping some financially strapped teams from signing up immediately. I bet the second/third round of sign-ups will vastly show the difference between the teams with and without $$. Those with $$ in their coffers will sign up ASAP.

[Alex Cormier]

i wanna say 1126 with the highest number at 1773

[Tyler 783]

Unlike all of you pecifist's i'm going to say 1300 a fair increase from last year. And about those people who are saying that there are going to be alot of teams folding this year I have one thing to say to you. Last week my team was going to be one of those teams that was going to be folding but due to my tierless efforts in the last month we have almost everything we need to compete (minus the robot of course) and anything we don't have I know we will eventualy get (Like the Robot). I beleive that there is a person like me on every team out there that is threatening to fold and they will do whatever it takes to make sure their team doesn't fold.

Just had to get that out I just found out 2 hours ago that my team wasn't going to fold. Hope to see you all in Atlanta!!

[RoboMom]

Originally Posted by Doug G

The $500 deposit is probably keeping some financially strapped teams from signing up immediately. .

I believe the $500 deposit is not for the first sign-up. Just for the subsequent regional sign-ups.

Each teams' first payment is due at the same time. $6000 on Dec. 3.

[Andrew]

Looks like new team registration has really slowed. There are about 640 teams on Oct. 13. With the second event open deadline approaching (28 October), it will be interesting to see how many regionals fill up (and therefore limit more new teams showing up).

[Koko Ed]

OK. It needs to be asked.
Where's the BBS?

[Andrew]

Looks like we're almost up to 700 teams on 10/18

733 - 35 (CMP) - 1(generico) = 697

[omutton]

Is there a list of all the retired team numbers? Also, what is the link for the list of teams signed up? I think that the highest rookie number this year will be 1624.....random, but who knows?

(Checked USFIRST on Oct 19th; 7:56 pm East Coast Time)
753 teams total. It's slowing down, but I expect that its just a lull and will pick up. Congratulations to team 1568 for being the newest member of the FIRST community this year and I hope I see you guys at Nationals (lots of newer teams have some unusually creative solutions to the game)!
After reading the list, has anyone else noticed double-registrations? I can understand a 2 team school maybe, but two identical registrations with the same team number...just a glitch? (And the Israel regional went from 14 teams of a 14 team capacity to a 0 of 0 and you get an error when you search it now...).
By the way, the double-registered teams (I saw) are 47, 53, 71, 103, 116, 120, 126, 148, 151, 175, 190, 191, 241, 401, 451, 499, 616, 812, 829, 843, 972, 1022, 1083, 1104, 1137, 1208, 1216. Are these teams that are signed up for more than one regional and it lists you twice (or three times, etc...), there seems to be a lot of teams for it to be just a random database error.

Michael "The Crate Guy" Greenley, Team 341

P.S. From what I hear, in it's infancy, FIRST allowed teams to change numbers, so certain retired teams have their number in use; I do not think that a list of retired teams is redily available, and you would need to know which teams changed numbers to know which are retired, which are changed and retired and which changed from a number to another leaving a "hole". (Number-changing has since been disallowed).