2008 Regional Registration Progress

[Richard Wallace]

Thanks, Billfred.

Do you mind clarifying how you're generating the "who's missing?" list? I notice that 1178 is shown on the list of the missing, but also appears on the list of registered teams here, which still shows a total of 857 teams. IIRC, 1178 was shown as registered for St. Louis as of yesterday afternoon.

[edit] same story on 1288 [/edit]

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Richard

Thanks, Billfred.

Do you mind clarifying how you're generating the "who's missing?" list? I notice that 1178 is shown on the list of the missing, but also appears on the list of registered teams here, which still shows a total of 857 teams. IIRC, 1178 was shown as registered for St. Louis as of yesterday afternoon.

[edit] same story on 1288 [/edit]

Initially, I was going down the list of 2007 teams and the list of 2008-thus-far teams. When I found a team registered for a 2008 event, they came off the spreadsheet.

Now, I've started copying the whole current 2008 list from FIRST, changing the team names in the current list to just "Registered", sorting by team number, then deleting the Registereds and any entries from the 2007 teams (which would still have their proper names) that corresponded to a Registered number.

Naturally, having a human look over thousands of lines of spreadsheet introduces error--but after further review, it seems like I just forgot to click "Automatically republish when changes are made" on Google Docs. It should be fixed now.

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Billfred

... It should be fixed now.

And so it is. Thanks again.

[Billfred]

I went ahead and updated. As of probably 20 minutes ago, 463 teams remain unregistered. If you see any errors, drop me a line--remember, if I can screw up the caption contest scores, I can screw up anything!

[Richard Wallace]

With ten days to go until 2nd Regional registration opens, 1001 teams have registered: 862 veterans and 139 rookies. There are 728 published spots still open so registration is apparently 58% full. [Of course this neglects an unknown number of spots being held open for expected rookie teams at several regionals.]

Nine regionals are at their published registration capacity: BAE Granite State, Midwest, Greater Kansas City, NASA VCU, Detroit, Oklahoma City, Boston, Hawaii, and SBPLI Long Island. And Florida is all but full with only one published spot open.

Updated regional-by-regional and week-by-week figures follow:

Regional / Attending / Open

BAE Granite State / 38 / 0
Midwest Chicago / 36 / 0
New Jersey / 28 / 25
Oregon / 16 / 38
St. Louis / 17 / 21
Week 1: / 135 / 84 / 62% full

Arizona / 27 / 27
Finger Lakes / 22 / 10
Greater Kansas City / 54 / 0
NASA/VCU Richmond / 52 / 0
San Diego / 20 / 18
Week 2: / 175 / 55 / 76% full

Boilermaker / 27 / 5
Brazil / 0 / 30
Chesapeake / 20 / 34
Connecticut / 21 / 49
Detroit / 30 / 0
Florida / 53 / 1
Peachtree / 31 / 7
Pittsburgh / 7 / 24
Silicon Valley / 32 / 8
Wisconsin / 27 / 27
Week 3: / 249 / 185 / 57% full

Buckeye / 13 / 37
Lone Star / 18 / 35
Los Angeles / 23 / 19
Microsoft Seattle / 17 / 15
Oklahoma City / 35 / 0
Davis/Sacramento / 9 / 25
Waterloo / 4 / 22
West Michigan / 24 / 19
Israel / 1 / 41
Week 4: / 144 / 213 / 40% full

Bayou / 19 / 35
Boston / 40 / 0
Colorado / 21 / 17
Great Lakes / 42 / 12
Greater Toronto / 15 / 39
Hawaii / 26 / 0
Las Vegas / 16 / 25
Minnesota / 23 / 9
Palmetto / 11 / 20
Philadelphia / 24 / 10
SBPLI Long Island / 32 / 0
Week 5: / 269 / 167 / 62% full

New York City / 29 / 24 / 55% full

[Richard Wallace]

Milestone: (1100 teams found.)

Will update regional-by-regional and week-by-week figures again early next week, just before 2nd Regional registration opens.

[Mark McLeod]

200 teams ahead of this same time last year.

[Billfred]

I just combed through the latest data on FIRST's site; the magic number is now 356, a number I expect to shrink further with time.

[Richard Wallace]

Update: one more day until 2nd regional registration opens. 1148 teams have registered, bringing the total to about 66% of published capacity. As Mark pointed out earlier the number of teams registered is well ahead of this time last year.

178 rookie teams have registered so far. The most recent is FRC 2507 from Bishop DuBourg High School in St. Louis.

Eleven regionals are now at their published capacity: BAE Granite State, Midwest, Greater Kansas City, NASA VCU, Detroit, Florida, Oklahoma City, Boston, Hawaii, Minnesota, and SBPI Long Island. Three others are nearly full: Boilermaker, Peachtree, and Silicon Valley.

Updated regional-by-regional and week-by-week figures follow:

Regional / Attending / Open

BAE Granite State / 42 / 0 
Midwest Chicago / 36 / 0 
New Jersey / 39 / 14 
Oregon / 22 / 32 
St. Louis / 20 / 18 
Week 1: / 159 / 64 / 71% full

Arizona / 32 / 22 
Finger Lakes / 23 / 9 
Greater Kansas City / 54 / 0 
NASA/VCU Richmond / 54 / 0 
San Diego / 25 / 13 
Week 2: / 188 / 44 / 81% full

Boilermaker / 29 / 3 
Brazil / 0 / 30 
Chesapeake / 23 / 31 
Connecticut / 29 / 41 
Detroit / 30 / 0 
Florida / 54 / 0 
Peachtree / 36 / 2 
Pittsburgh / 8 / 23 
Silicon Valley / 38 / 2 
Wisconsin / 30 / 24 
Week 3: / 278 / 156 / 64% full

Buckeye / 19 / 31 
Lone Star / 21 / 33 
Los Angeles / 28 / 14 
Microsoft Seattle / 18 / 14 
Oklahoma City / 36 / 0 
Davis/Sacramento / 12 / 22 
Waterloo / 4 / 22 
West Michigan / 25 / 19 
Israel / 4 / 38 
Week 4: / 167 / 193 / 46% full

Bayou / 25 / 29 
Boston / 41 / 0 
Colorado / 23 / 15 
Great Lakes / 43 / 11 
Greater Toronto / 24 / 30 
Hawaii / 28 / 0 
Las Vegas / 20 / 21 
Minnesota / 38 / 0 
Palmetto / 17 / 14 
Philadelphia / 28 / 6 
SBPLI Long Island / 34 / 0 
Week 5: / 321 / 126 / 72% full

New York City / 35 / 19 / 65% full

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Richard

1148 teams have registered, bringing the total to about 66% of published capacity.

It's fast approaching last year's total. I'm always interested when we get to final registration (except for those last minute 10 teams or so who finally get it together in January), how many teams have dropped out from the previous year.

We have several local teams on Billfred's list that cannot register until they pass their School Board approval cycle, so they always register late. Most of the Israeli and Brazil teams also seem to all pop-in at the last minute.

One of the oddities introduced by the published capacity of individual Regionals is that the number of teams registered for already full Regionals continues to go up as Rookie teams add-in. So team registration goes up, but isn't directly reflected by the remaining capacity %.
P.S. I just noticed that Richmond's capacity actually seemed to drop by 2.

It's still quite a guessing game for teams on the wait lists as to what the real capacity of a Regional is and what their chances are of getting in. FIRST requires Regionals to reserve more slots than are likely to be filled by Rookies, making wait lists possible. As it works now you have to talk to individual Regional Directors to know where you might stand.

[Richard Wallace]

Ten more teams have registered since my last update (this morning) bringing the total to 1158, including 185 rookie teams.

I wonder which state will have the most new teams this year?

So far Hawaii and Minnesota each show 21 rookies. Two new regionals off to flying starts ...

[Mark McLeod]

Yea, it looks like the state of Minnesota just registered... (1162)
..and the Minnesota rookies now lead the pack.

Somebody up there is doing a great job!

[Bill Moore]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Yea, it looks like the state of Minnesota just registered... (1162)
..and the Minnesota rookies now lead the pack.

Somebody up there is doing a great job!

Mark,

This is probably a reflection on the great FLL program in Minnesota. The students naturally want to progress on to the next level of competition. Here's the Minnesota FLL website:

http://www.hightechkids.org/

They've been top-notch for years.

[Billfred]

Second-event registration seems to have been the wake-up call; between the last update of my sheet on Sunday and the one I just did, some 56 returning teams have registered for an initial event. That means the magic number of missing teams is now an even 300 and decreasing. (Even if registration ceased today, that's a 77% retention rate.)