Most FIRST teams per capita

[Richard Wallace]

Total registration is now up to 982 teams, with 2nd regional registration trying to begin.

US average is up to 3.1 teams-per-million-residents (TPMR). The updated states rankings by TPMR:

Rank / State / Teams / TPMR
1 / NH / 26 / 20.3
2 / MI / 100 / 10.2
3 / CT / 29 / 8.7
4 / MA / 48 / 7.6
5 / VA / 54 / 7.4
6 / KS / 20 / 7.2
7 / MO / 39 / 6.8
8 / NY / 90 / 4.9
9 / CO / 22 / 4.9
10 / SC / 18 / 4.5
11 / NJ / 37 / 4.4
12 / OR / 13 / 3.6
13 / WI / 19 / 3.5
14 / MD / 18 / 3.3
15 / AZ / 17 / 3.3
16 / IN / 20 / 3.2
17 / ON / 38 / 3.0
18 / OK / 10 / 2.9
19 / PA / 35 / 2.8
20 / GA / 22 / 2.6
21 / CA / 88 / 2.6
22 / FL / 41 / 2.5
23 / OH / 24 / 2.1
24 / WA / 13 / 2.1
25 / IL / 24 / 2.0
26 / TX / 19 / 0.9

These 25 US states plus Ontario account for 884 teams, which is 90% of the total.

Massachusetts has moved up a few spots with 10 additional registrations since my last calculation. Maryland is now on the list, as it should have been earlier (my bad).

And Michigan has reached the 100 team mark. New York and California are probably not far behind. As has been pointed out earlier in this thread, these figures (1) are preliminary, and (2) do not include 'invisible' teams that we will know about after December 1st.

[dhitchco]

Ok, so who wants to be a real geek and compute the highest and lowest TOTAL DISTANCES DRIVEN to a regional event by the sum of all the teams that attended last year.

namely, which regional only attracted local teams and which regional was worthy of driving a long distance?

I started another thread
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=49494
that uses this really cool geocoding to calculate straight line distances between two GPS data points.....not true driving distance, but approximate.

These are all very interesting stats re: how to get MORE schools in rural areas involved, etc.