2007 St. Louis Regional

[Aren_Hill]

This is gonna be interesting, The usually very aggressive defense i've experienced the last 2 years and several more offensive teams (217.45) this should make an amazing regional. see all of you there

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Richard

Registration for the 2007 St. Louis Regional is approaching 60% of capacity (25/42), with seven eight states represented as of this evening. ...

Two more states are now represented:

939 Sisseton, South Dakota (formerly known as Hiphopanonymous) STL 2005 Champs and participants at STL every year since 2002, and

1472 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a fourth year team coming to STL for their first time.

So we're up to ten states so far. I'm guessing, in about a week, Michigan will make it eleven.

14 out of 42 published spaces are still available, with six days until 2nd regional registration opens.

[Richard Wallace]

With one day of 2nd regional registration nearly complete, the 2007 St. Louis state-count is up to 13 including pending registrations of teams from Michigan, Wisconsin, and New York!

And it is looking like a full-scale Hoosier invasion, with EIGHT teams from Indiana now registered or pending.

[Aren_Hill]

YESSS were in and comin back for our third year and this is gonna be interesting a normally very defensive regional with the world champion coming in and the technokats geez

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Gear

YESSS were in and comin back for our third year and this is gonna be interesting a normally very defensive regional with the world champion coming in and the technokats geez

All five of the Week 1 regionals are now booked to their published capacity, assuming that the pending teams confirm. So it looks like there will be at least 242 teams competing in the five Week 1 events.

Several of the teams that will be competing at St. Louis have demonstrated in past games that they can rack up the points. (1625 should be mentioned in that group. ) I think Gear is right -- we are in for some interesting competition.

[GMKlenklen]

So as the MASMabots don't exist yet... but we are working on it... how does one go about "holding" a position at the regional?

Oh, and a little birdie told me that WildStang was gonna be there too... hehehehehe, we get to try to beat them, hehehehehehe

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by GMKlenklen

So as the MASMabots don't exist yet... but we are working on it... how does one go about "holding" a position at the regional?

Oh, and a little birdie told me that WildStang was gonna be there too... hehehehehe, we get to try to beat them, hehehehehehe

The following statement appears on this page of the FIRST website:

"In most cases, FIRST has reserved extra capacity for rookie teams. If you are a rookie team and would like to get into a full event, be sure to join the waiting list for the event."

As for Wildstang, I'd love to see 111 in St. Louis, and so would a lot of folks. But since they've already registered for Midwest (Week 3), Western Michigan (Week 5), and the Championship, I guess their season is pretty full as it stands. Students, teachers, parents, and mentors can only take so much time away from school and work in one season.

Then again, there were a few teams (four, if I recall correctly) that participated in four FRC events last year ...

[savage301]

Team 1250 from Dearborn, MI will be at the St. Louis Regional this year. We are all exciting to come and compete against some of the best Mid-Western teams in all of FIRST. Well we will see all of you on March 1st, and good luck to everyone in the upcoming season.

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by savage301

Team 1250 from Dearborn, MI will be at the St. Louis Regional this year. We are all exciting to come and compete against some of the best Mid-Western teams in all of FIRST. ...

We read in many threads that this or that regional has a strong field, great offensive teams, long history, etc.

I thought it would be fun to analyze the strength of the 2007 STL field using two easily available metrics for each participating team:
(1) experience measured in previous FRC events, and
(2) awards won as listed on the FRC website.

Clearly we will have some very experienced teams that have won many awards. We will also have seven rookie teams. So what do the averages look like?

Including the whole 2007 STL field, the average team experience is 6 FRC events and the average team has previously won 4.6 awards.

How much are these averages influenced by the top teams and rookies? Re-computing without 45, 217, and the rookies, the average team experience is still 6 FRC events and the average team has won 4 awards.

I don't know how these averages compare to those for other regionals, and I'll leave that calculation as an exercise for anyone who is interested. The 2007 STL averages look very strong to me.

And oh, yeah, the 2007 STL field also includes ten teams that have previously been regional winners, six that have previously won regional chairman's awards, and six with at least one mentor who has previously been a regional Woodie Flowers Award finalist.

All things considered, 2007 STL is a very strong field of teams.

[Hieb]

While it's great to see a number of powerhouse teams making their way to St. Louis this year, on a personal note I'll miss the Bomb Squad, team 16. In my first FIRST event 3 years ago they were the first team stop by our pit and welcome us. They fully embodied gracious professionalism, and got our team off to a great start with a first round victory. Of course, they followed up by thoroughly defeating us in the next 2 rounds, but that's beside the point.
So good luck Bomb Squad in Kansas City, we'll miss you.

[pludodog]

395 is looking forward to making the trip out to the Gateway City this year, it should be an exciting regional.

[GMKlenklen]

Yay!!!! I have compleated the first step in starting MY OWN FIRST team!!! Now we just have to find that $6k Hum...

[Richard Wallace]

The truly awesome field for St. Louis looks this way, with registration closed and a couple of days to go before initial event payment deadline:

Sixteen St. Louis area teams, including three St. Louis area rookies:
931, 1094, 1098, 1178, 1182, 1208, 1288, 1315, 1329, 1444, 1451, 1658, 1706, 1985, 2014, 2219

Seven Kansas City area teams, including three Kansas City area rookies:
1723, 1752, 1769, 1939, 1986, 2011, 2109

Five returning St. Louis Regional veterans (three or more previous appearances):
525 (IA), 547 (TN), 939 (SD), 967 (IA), 1625 (IL)

Nine veterans with less than three previous St. Louis Regional appearances:
45 (IN), 148 (TX), 217 (MI), 292 (IN), 461 (IN), 829 (IN), 1472 (LA), 1602 (MI), 1646 (IN)

And three more out-of-area rookies:
2133 (TN), 2167 (MO), 2177 (MN)

As usual, watch out for the rookies -- they can and will surprise the unwary.

So we will have IA, IL, IN, LA, MI, MO, MN, KS, SD, TN, and TX represented at St. Louis this year -- eleven states!

Caveat: Things can still change a little, registration rules being what they are.

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Richard

Nine veterans with less than three previous St. Louis Regional appearances:
45 (IN), 148 (TX), 217 (MI), 292 (IN), 461 (IN), 829 (IN), 1472 (LA), 1602 (MI), 1646 (IN)

Make that ten, with the addition of 1250, so now there are three MI teams in the 41 team field. And one team still pending; wonder who they are?

[Allison]

1747 is the team that is pending