Registered vs Pending

[Gary Dillard]

I'm going to state what I "think" is correct, based on my reading of the registration guidelines put out by FIRST and observation of what's currently listed. I've found some confusing language, so please comment and quote your source if you think anything is incorrect.

1) When you signup for your first regional, your team is shown as "registered" for that event. I assume the status will stay that way until the Dec. 9th payment deadline.

2) Any subsequent events (including the championship) that you sign up for will show your team as "pending" until FIRST receives payment for the first event that your team registered for and that event, at which time it will change to "registered".

3) The event capacity equals the sum of the "teams registered" and "open capacity" columns

4) If you register just to get "pending" status, it doesn't gain you anything. Other than your first regional, you have to pay to get registered. For example, today there are 24 pending teams for 10 open slots at Chesapeake. The first 10 to pay get in, the other 14 are put on a waiting list.

So, there are right now 203 available spots for the championship, even though 131 teams are pending for some of those spots.