2009 Regional Registration Progress

[Sgraff_SRHS06]

65 for DC??? I thought the official number was 58. Who are the 7 teams pending out of curiosity.

[Mark McLeod]

Snapshot of registration as of 10/30/2008

As a side note, it looks like FIRST handled registration like they used to some years ago - first-signed up = first-registered in a second regional or at the Championships. For the past few years it had been first-paid = first-registered and you wouldn't show up on the team list until payment was received by FIRST, but this year you got on the registered list right away without having to pay beforehand. FIRST also did not accept pre-payment in advance of registering.

7 resurrected veteran teams. 4 took one year off and 3 took two years off.
I didn’t look to see how many old teams were given new team numbers, but there are 5 new teams that are technically non-rookies.

Where Teams are from in 2009

MI                    122
CA                   120
NY                   104
TX                    72
NJ                   53
MN                  52
MA                  50
VA                   49
ON  Canada   48
MO                  47
OK                  47
WA                  46
IL                     45
FL                   42
PA                   40
AZ                   34
CT                   32
OH                  32
IN                    29
WI                   28
OR                  26
NH                   25
GA                  24
CO                  23
MD                  23
KS                   20
SC                   19
HI                    17
DC                   13
LA                   12
PR                   12
MS                  10
NV                   10
ID                    9
Israel               8
NC                   7
ME                  6
AL               5
ND                   5
TN                   4
United Kingdom  4
UT                   4
AK                   3
Brazil              3
IA                    3
KY                   3
VT                   3
WV                  3
BC  Canada    2
DE                   2
Mexico            2
NM                  2
RI                    2
WY                  2
AR                   1
Chile               1
Netherlands   1
QC Canada     1
Turkey          1

Regionals:
Capacity usually has more than these publicly listed slots available, but how many? Only the Regional Directors know for sure, and the waitlisted teams they may have spoken to.

W eek 1           
58 (full)            Washington DC Regional
51 (full)            Oklahoma City Regional
54 (full)            Greater Kansas City Regional
47 (full)            Midwest Regional
42 (full)            BAE Systems Granite State Regional
33   ?                **Traverse City MI District
56 (full)           New Jersey Regional
44                    Buckeye Regional
 
Week 2            
52 (full)            Boston Regional
37   ?                 **Kettering University MI District
53                    Oregon Regional
42                    Finger Lakes Regional
53                    New York City Regional
28                    San Diego Regional
 
Week 3            
54 (full)           Florida Regional
40 (full)           Silicon Valley Regional
32  ?                **Cass Tech MI District
44                    Los Angeles Regional
40  (full)          Peachtree Regional
43                    Wisconsin Regional
43                    Dallas Regional
24  (full)          Pittsburgh Regional
 
Week 4            
45                    NASA VCU Regional
40                    Arizona Regional
33   ?               **Detroit MI District
30  (full)          Boilermaker Regional
46  (full)          Philadelphia Regional
28   ?               **Lansing MI District
42                    Chesapeake Regional
27                    St. Louis Regional
25                    Bayou Regional
9                      Waterloo Regional
8                      Israel Regional
 
Week 5            
58 (full)           Microsoft Seattle Regional
45  (full)          SBPLI Long Island Regional
34   ?               **West Michigan MI District
53  (full)          Lone Star Regional
32    ?               **Troy MI District
53                    Greater Toronto Regional
53  (full)          Connecticut Regional
27  (full)          Palmetto Regional
34  (full)          Sacramento Regional
33                    Colorado Regional
34                    Las Vegas Regional
22                    Hawaii Regional
?                      **Michigan State
 
Week 6            
40  (full)          Minnesota 10000 Lakes Regional
32                    Minnesota North Star Regional
 
** restricted to Michigan teams only – capacities are not publicized

New teams (including 5 technically non-rookies) are from:

TX                      39
WA                    21
MN                     14
OK                     13
MI                      11
IL                       11
DC                     9
CA                     8
NY                     7
MO                    7
MA                     6
OR                     5
OH                     5
GA                     5
WI                      4
PR                     4
ON                     4
FL                      4
CO                     4
MD                     3
IN                       3
ID                       3
HI                       3
CT                      3
AZ                      3
VA                     2
UT                      2
TN                      2
SC                     2
NJ                      2
MS                     2
LA                      2
KY                     2
AL                 2
Turkey            1
NH                     1
AK                     1

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Sgraff_SRHS06

65 for DC??? I thought the official number was 58. Who are the 7 teams pending out of curiosity.

I changed it to reflect the official tally. Only FIRST knows who'll be allowed in from the wait-list. All the rookies are in, but I speculate that FIRST will pull from the wait-listed teams to fill out a final field of maybe 64/65 teams. It really depends on rented floor space in the venue for the pits, and of course teams willing to wait on the wait-list instead of trying elsewhere.

[ATannahill]

who are the 7 resuracted teams?

[Mark McLeod]

Last competed in 2006:
225 York, PA
977 South Boston, VA
1257 Scotch Plains, NJ


Last competed in 2007:
886 North York, Ontario
1452 Los Angeles, CA
1770 Chicago, IL
1856 Redford, MI

[Pat Fairbank]

As of this morning, we've reached Team 3000!

[pentau]

Originally Posted by rtfgnow

who are the 7 resuracted teams?

The Washington D.C. Regional will be taking place at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. According to the event list, Hall A, Room 204C, 206, and 304-306 were rented. Hall A has 151,000 usable square feet which is a lot of room compared with Trenton (32,500 square feet according to the website) or Chesapeake (80,000 square feet). There might, then, be space for additional teams or even an additional field.

[AcesPease]

Originally Posted by pentau

The Washington D.C. Regional will be taking place at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. According to the event list, Hall A, Room 204C, 206, and 304-306 were rented. Hall A has 151,000 usable square feet which is a lot of room compared with Trenton (32,500 square feet according to the website) or Chesapeake (80,000 square feet). There might, then, be space for additional teams or even an additional field.

That's larger than the Connecticut Convention Center (140,000) and we only use about half of the space available.

[Nate Smith]

Originally Posted by pentau

The Washington D.C. Regional will be taking place at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. According to the event list, Hall A, Room 204C, 206, and 304-306 were rented. Hall A has 151,000 usable square feet which is a lot of room compared with Trenton (32,500 square feet according to the website) or Chesapeake (80,000 square feet). There might, then, be space for additional teams or even an additional field.

Not being familiar with the site, I'm guessing the following setup, based on my experience:

Hall A: Field/Pits
204C: Event Office
206: Judges' Room
304-306: Volunteer Room(for volunteer food, etc)

[Mark McLeod]

We're halfway through the registration period, so I thought I'd look at who's missing.
Israel has the largest block of still unaccounted for teams, but on-the-whole they tend to always be late registering.


Missing veteran teams:

IS                  28
CA                 27
MN                14
NY                 14
NJ                 13
TX                  12
VA                 12
BR                 11
HI                  11
PA                 11
CO                10
ON                9
MA                8
MD                8
MO                8
AZ                 7
LA                 7
MI                  6
NV                 6
OH                6
FL                 5
NC                 5
OK                5
GA                4
MS                4
NH                 4
MT                 3
SC                 3
WI                 3
CT                 2
ID                  2
KS                 2
OR                2
PR                 2
AB                 1
AL                  1
BC                 1
DC                 1
IL                   1
IN                  1
NE                 1
NM                1
QC                1
SD                 1
UK                 1
WV                1

[Mark McLeod]

Just saw that team 3011 from Germany has registered and is headed for Las Vegas.

So we have teams from ten countries: USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Israel, Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, Netherlands, Germany, and Chile.



P.S. on a side note...
New team 2715 has been renumbered 216
I suppose because it's a second team of existing team 288 at Granville high school

[lenny8]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

We're halfway through the registration period, so I thought I'd look at who's missing.
Israel has the largest block of still unaccounted for teams, but on-the-whole they tend to always be late registering.


Missing veteran teams:

IS                  28
CA                 27
MN                14
NY                 14
NJ                 13
TX                  12
VA                 12
BR                 11
HI                  11
PA                 11
CO                10
ON                9
MA                8
MD                8
MO                8
AZ                 7
LA                 7
MI                  6
NV                 6
OH                6
FL                 5
NC                 5
OK                5
GA                4
MS                4
NH                 4
MT                 3
SC                 3
WI                 3
CT                 2
ID                  2
KS                 2
OR                2
PR                 2
AB                 1
AL                  1
BC                 1
DC                 1
IL                   1
IN                  1
NE                 1
NM                1
QC                1
SD                 1
UK                 1
WV                1

Wh0s the team from IN so i can see whats up with them

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by lenny8

Wh0s the team from IN so i can see whats up with them

1766 from Columbus, IN
Columbus Area Career Connection High School
They seem to be a small team http://www.c4robotics.com/ of 10 or so students, but with plenty of mentors
about 45 miles or so from you.

[lenny8]

nice ill contact them and see if our team can help in any way

[billy9083]

team 38 is back and is 2836