2008 Regional Registration Progress

[Mark McLeod]

The team list has been quite volatile since registration closed. It's gone as high as 1510 back down to 1495, to 1503, to 1500,...
Growth this year is right in line with the past two years.

[Mark McLeod]

Although the list of registered teams still changes daily it looks like the Israeli teams have largely recovered.

Since Registration officially closed Dec. 3, 25 rookies have appeared while others have vanished from the list. Missing '07 vets finally made it, but other veterans have disappeared.

2007 teams are missing from:

CA Count         14    
ON Count         11    Canada
MA Count         10    
MI Count            8      
GA Count           7      
MT Count           7      
FL Count            6      
MO Count          6      
VA Count           6      
IS Count            5      Israel
AZ Count           4      
BR Count          4      Brazil
IL Count            4      
CO Count          3      
MD Count         3      
DC Count          2      
ID Count            2      
LA Count           2      
OK Count          2      
PA Count          2      
TN Count           2      
WA Count         2      
CT Count          1      
KS Count          1      
MX Count          1      Mexico
NC Count          1      
ND Count          1      
NH Count          1      
NJ Count           1      
NY Count          1      
OH Count          1      
OR Count          1      
RI Count            1      
SC Count          1      
SD Count          1      
TX Count           1      
UK Count          1      United Kingdom
 UT Count           1          

[DarkJedi613]

I realize I'm a bit late with all of this -- but I read through this thread and decided to go through our database with the team info. Some strange things happen before teams were given permanent numbers (which I think was in 1998?) -- I'm missing some data. But all the data after that should be pretty stable. Anyway I've made up a page with # of rookies for each year and retention rates. The row is the year you're looking at (i.e. the row 2006 refers to the 2006 season). Then each column is the number of teams (out of the original # of teams) that participated in that season. So for row 2006, column 2000: then 271 of the 372 teams from the 2000 season also participated in the 2006 season for a rentention rate of 72.849%. Note: the list of # of rookie teams is based off registration -- not whether they participated in an event or not.

Available here:
http://www.team358.org/files/team_lo..._teams.php.htm

(P.S. The team search is updated on our website -- http://www.team358.org/files/team_lookup/)

[Mark McLeod]

A question in another thread made me remember to come back here and add a final footnote to the registration story.

The final team appeared on the registered list January 15.
About 25 teams, give or take, joined the final registered list after the December 3 deadline.
Quite a few teams dropped out after the deadline. They were just not able to pull it together.