I have gone to the FIRST site
http://www.usfirst.org/frc/map/ and I have done a count (I got bored one night) of all the teams in all the states and Canada and Brazil. The total count is 561 teams active in FIRST. Are there more teams than shown? I don't know.
If FIRST is going to allow 288 teams in the Championship and there are 561 active teams in FIRST there will be 1 out of every 2 teams going to the Championship. That sounds pretty good to me. Unlike the 900 teams I keep hearing about.
What is really upsetting is that there are about 150 teams that are rookies. That means that there area little over 400 teams with 2 or more years. Why are there so many drop-outs?
*clunk! clunk! Two pennies hitting screen*
Wayne Doenges
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World's - #1 seeded in Archimedes, WON Archimedes and made it to Einstein
2016 NC District - Guilford County. #13 seeded, Finalist. Won Quality award.
IN District - Tippecanoe. #4 seeded. Won Innovation in Control award.
IN District - Perry Meridian. #3 seeded. Finalist. Won Excellence in Engineering award.
IN District - State Championship. #1 seeded. Finalist. Won Excellence inn Engineering award.
I also like how the FTC folks are able to get involved with the FRC process this year, but it's always a bit of a let down when you're told you can't launch things into the air. - s_forbes [more] 
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