2008 Regional Registration Progress

[Billfred]

I believe that missing vet was 28, which was the last of the sub-100 teams to register.

Matter of fact, let's run the counts and see how things are faring by vintage:

Shuffle Era (1-204) 1 missing of 110 active teams in 2007 (0.91%)
1999 rookies (207-335) 0 missing of 63 (0%)
2000 rookies (337-488) 3 missing of 74 (4.05%)
2001 rookies (492-716) 10 missing of 97 (10.31%)
2002 rookies (743-999) 9 missing of 105 (8.57%)
2003 rookies (1000-1237) 16 missing of 98 (16.33%)
2004 rookies (1241-1495) 24 missing of 135 (17.78%)
2005 rookies (1501-1708) 27 missing of 155 (17.42%)
2006 rookies (1710-1980) 48 missing of 205 (23.41%)
2007 rookies (1981-2287) 54 missing of 255 (21.18%)

Not all the numbers line up perfectly; FIRST removes from the database I can see teams who haven't competed in three years (like 267, which last competed in 2004), so the actual cutoff might be a little different. Similarly, I might've miscounted the number of active teams of a given era; feel free to check my counts through whatever black magic you like.

By the way, the magic number is now below 200--it's 192, making for a 85.24% retention rate at the moment.

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Billfred

FIRST removes from the database I can see teams who haven't competed in three years (like 267, which last competed in 2004), so the actual cutoff might be a little different.

In case you feel the need, Darkjedi archives older FIRST databases and most of the old team data is still in there, such as 267. Don't know how he's handling re-issued team numbers though.
http://www.team358.org/files/team_lookup/

[Mark McLeod]

Registration broke 1400 today.

[synth3tk]

w00t!!! Party time!!!

[Richard Wallace]

Team numbers are over the 2600 mark.

And 286 rookie teams have registered for 2008, matching the total for 2007, so it looks like another record year for new teams.
We still have a long way to go before 2008 rookie registration reaches my prediction.

[Mark McLeod]

Here are the rookie totals by area as of Sunday 11/18.
I only see 283 though.
Five rookies have been dropped from the FIRST database as false starts, and rookie spin-offs 509, 916, 1025, 1988.
See any I missed?

I also see 5 teams returning from a 2-year hiatus, and 8 teams coming back after taking one year off.

MN 36
OK 32
CA 24
HI 21
AZ 13
IL 12
MI 11
NY 10
MO 8
PR 8
TX 8
WA 8
MA 7
NJ 7
MD 6
PA 6
VA 6
FL 5
OR 5
KS 4
NV 4
OH 4
ON 4
WI 4
NC 3
GA 2
IN 2
LA 2
MS 2
ND 2
NH 2
VT 2
Brazil 1
Chile 1
CO 1
DE 1
ID 1
IS 1
QC 1
SC 1
TN 1
UK 1
UT 1
WV 1
WY 1

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Here are the rookie totals by area as of Sunday 11/18.
I only see 283 though. Five rookies have been dropped from the FIRST database as false starts.

Some new teams which were originally given rookie numbers are no longer classified as rookies. For example, our new team was originally registered as 2331, but when FIRST determined we were not a rookie team because we had students who had already been on a team, we were given the unused number 1025.

[Mark McLeod]

Thanks, that explains why I saw some teams disappear and the non-rookie, rookies appear. I still listed you as a new team, aka "non-rookie rookie" for the purpose of my count.

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

Some new teams which were originally given rookie numbers are no longer classified as rookies. For example, our new team was originally registered as 2331, but when FIRST determined we were not a rookie team because we had students who had already been on a team, we were given the unused number 1025.

P.S.
I keep waiting for that big block of Israeli teams to suddenly register...

[Swan217]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

Some new teams which were originally given rookie numbers are no longer classified as rookies. For example, our new team was originally registered as 2331, but when FIRST determined we were not a rookie team because we had students who had already been on a team, we were given the unused number 1025.

See, that's just not fair. 1188 goes under, and you guys get your number UPGRADED by 163 points? What is this world coming to?

(Seriously, I like it better this way. Stops the hyperinflation of rookie numbers.)

[Richard Wallace]

With less than a week to go before payment deadline (Dec. 3) most of the regionals are at their published capacity. 1460 FRC teams have registered.

Thirteen regionals with published spots still available are: Oregon (Week 1), Arizona (Week 2), Brazil and Connecticut (Week 3), Buckeye, Lone Star, Microsoft Seattle, UC Davis Sacramento, Waterloo, and West Michigan (Week 4), Israel (Week 4+), Bayou, Las Vegas, and Palmetto (Week 5). Many of these are likely to reach published capacity soon because they have more teams pending than published spots available.

Also, FIRST appears to be closing in on two milestones: nearly 100 international teams have registered (incl. 60+ from Canada), and nearly 300 rookie teams have registered. And once again, every US state has registered at least one FRC team.

[Richard Wallace]

Sorry for double posting; a election-year idea came to me.

Last year I posted a list of US states sorted by the number of FRC teams per million residents. This year, a more interesting metric might be the number of teams per Electoral College Vote (ECV) -- a measure of political opportunity!

As of this morning, US average is 2.53 registered FRC teams per Electoral College Vote. Five states have more than twice the national average: New Hampshire, Michigan, Hawaii, Oklahoma, and Minnesota.

State	Teams	ECV	Teams per ECV
NH	29	4	7.25
MI	115	17	6.76
HI	26	4	6.50
OK	42	7	6.00
MN	52	10	5.20
MA	55	12	4.58
VA	58	13	4.46
MO	49	11	4.45
CT	31	7	4.43
NJ	59	15	3.93
KS	23	6	3.83
NY	113	31	3.65
AZ	36	10	3.60
CO	31	9	3.44
NV	17	5	3.40
OR	22	7	3.14
WI	28	10	2.80
MD	27	10	2.70
SC	21	8	2.63
CA	138	55	2.51
IN	27	11	2.45
WA	25	11	2.27
PA	47	21	2.24
DC	6	3	2.00
ID	8	4	2.00
MS	12	6	2.00
LA	17	9	1.89
IL	37	21	1.76
FL	46	27	1.70
GA	25	15	1.67
ND	5	3	1.67
OH	32	20	1.60
ME	5	4	1.25
TX	41	34	1.21
AK	3	3	1.00
DE	3	3	1.00
MT	3	3	1.00
VT	3	3	1.00
WV	4	5	0.80
RI	3	4	0.75
WY	2	3	0.67
NC	9	15	0.60
UT	3	5	0.60
AL	4	9	0.44
IA	3	7	0.43
NM	2	5	0.40
SD	1	3	0.33
TN	3	11	0.27
NE	1	5	0.20
AR	1	6	0.17
KY	1	8	0.13
PR	8	0	
			
Total	1362	538	2.53

[Mark McLeod]

This year's 300 Spartans come from:

MN           36
OK           32
CA           28
HI             21
MI            15
AZ            13
IL             12
NY           10
MA           8
MO           8
PR           8
TX            8
WA          8
NJ            7
ON           7
PA           7
MD           6
VA           6
FL            5
OH           5
OR           5
KS           4
NV           4
WI            4
NC           3
GA           2
IN             2
Israel        2
LA            2
MS           2
ND           2
NH           2
QC           2
VT            2
Brazil        1
Chile         1
CO           1
DE           1
ID             1
Mexico     1
SC           1
TN            1
UK           1
UT            1
WV          1
WY          1

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

This year's 300 Spartans ...

This is an impressive list.

277 US rookie teams representing 38 states, and 23 international rookie teams representing 7 countries. May fortune favor the bold!

[edit]Make that 285 US rookie teams representing 38 states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and 15 international rookie teams representing 6 countries.[/edit]

[Cynette]

Originally Posted by Richard

This is an impressive list.

277 US rookie teams representing 38 states, and 23 international rookie teams representing 7 countries. May fortune favor the bold!

A good exercise to keep us up on our geography! Four of the countries were spelled out. It was a challenge to look at the list of state abbreviations and figure out which ones actually were not states, but two letter representations of another country. And then have the discussion among yourselves...is it 6 or 7? When is a country not a country?

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by Richard

This is an impressive list.

277 US rookie teams representing 38 states, and 23 international rookie teams representing 7 countries. May fortune favor the bold!

Originally Posted by Cynette

A good exercise to keep us up on our geography! Four of the countries were spelled out. It was a challenge to look at the list of state abbreviations and figure out which ones actually were not states, but two letter representations of another country. And then have the discussion among yourselves...is it 6 or 7? When is a country not a country?

The question is really whether it is 23 international rookie teams or not. But those 23 teams do represent 7 countries.