Registration 2011

[RoboMom]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

I may be disappointing in person,

I REALLY disagree.
I won't see you at WPI. You need to head more south than Philly one of these years.

[buildmaster5000]

I would be curious how many teams in the DC regional are either in DC or within 50 miles if the city.

Spoiler for My results:

I came up with 33 out of 49teams.

[Foster]

I may be disappointing in person, I fail to spout random facts.

I doubt that you will be disappointing in person, I'll be to busy going Ummm wow you are Mark, uummm I, I mean Ummm.

Part of the charm for me for baseball is all the stats, so I loved listening to Harry Kalas broadcast the Phillys with all the "stat" nuances that you bring to the opening signups.

Now if I could get webcasts with "well 1640 is coming into this event with 6 seniors, the second largest next to 1511, but the frosh class of 148 has 3 years of experience with VEX so it should be a good match"

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Dallas hasn't changed since the 15th.

Our team called FIRST twice after the 15th deadline. We are still awaiting word, depending on whether expansion of the regional is possible or not. The Dallas committee is still working on it.
We were offered Virginia instead today, but declined as the cost is $300 more per person for the airfare, based on a quote this morning.

If we cant get in, we'll just stick to 2 regionals and CMP.

[vhcook]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

How about this...

• 14% of the teams are "away" teams at the Long Island Regional.
• 0% of the Michigan District teams are away teams.

In other words they aren't a local team in the sense that they live in a different area that is covered by a different "home" Regional.

If some of you are willing to take a shot at your own local Regionals, where you know who's just visiting and who always comes, I could do the remainder. It would be a coarse estimate across most of the events, since we have limited local knowledge, but it could be based on where teams consistently go over the past, say three years.

I'll give this a stab for the two regionals I know best. I'm going to give you three numbers: % away teams (including teams for whom this is not their "home" regional), % rookie (based on current registration data), and % new to the regional (including rookies). That last number accounts for teams that have not been to this regional before, as opposed to teams that use this as their second regional fairly often.

Regional     %Away    %Rookie     %New
Kansas City   15%        9%        16%
Oklahoma       8%       13%        19%

I should probably mention I counted team 935 as local for both regionals since they are roughly equidistant from both and usually attend both.

[JB987]

Originally Posted by waialua359

Our team called FIRST twice after the 15th deadline. We are still awaiting word, depending on whether expansion of the regional is possible or not. The Dallas committee is still working on it.
We were offered Virginia instead today, but declined as the cost is $300 more per person for the airfare, based on a quote this morning.

If we cant get in, we'll just stick to 2 regionals and CMP.

Viva Las Vegas???

[Greg Young]

I think the North Carolina regional is filled at 51 teams, up from 44 teams its first year.

Away teams: 29%
Rookie teams: 33%
New teams: 65%

We have lots of rookies and lots of new teams.

I've only counted NC teams as local since this is only the second year of the regional. If 48, 449, and 1319 come back next year I'll count them as local.

All the rookies are new NC teams. 17 of them. I didn't count 2055 and 2059 as rookies since their team numbers indicate that FIRST doesn't consider them rookies. Both are descendants of 2108.

New teams include the rookie teams.

Greg

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by JB987

Viva Las Vegas???

Oh! I thought our backup backup plan was supposed to be hush hush?
Will let you guys know as soon as FIRST lets us know.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by waialua359

Will let you guys know as soon as FIRST lets us know.

Color me very sad if you guys don't get into Dallas. Very very very sad. I guess I'll have to start pushing for a trip to Hawai'i soon.

Jane

[DonRotolo]

For NJ, 8 of 60 are "not from around here". Including 2 Brazilians and a Turkish team - very cool, four national anthems! (Waldo from Canada is also attending, we haven't seen them since they won Chairman's in 2008).

There are several more teams - about a dozen - who have 'closer' regionals (e.g., Bronx could go to NYC, Philadelphia could go to, er, Philadelphia, etc) but chose Trenton, NJ.

5 are Rookies, only 3 are second year teams.

[Zflash]

Originally Posted by Greg Young

I've only counted NC teams as local since this is only the second year of the regional. If 48, 449, and 1319 come back next year I'll count them as local.

Greg

As long as the schedule works out we will be at NC again next year. It is a great regional that is put on by a great group of people and volunteers. The venue is also the most unique one we have been to for a regional competition.

[Mark McLeod]

Here is everywhere, including what you've all contributed.
This is rough and has no guarantee of accuracy, but it's a ballpark summary.
Those who contributed understand how arbitrary the cutoff can be between home & away teams.
I put the rough criteria in the attached spreadsheet with the summary data.

Event --------------------- #Teams - #Local - #Away - % away - Rookies - Not at '10 Event

BAE/Granite State Regional --- 53 ---- 44 ----- 9 ---- 17% ----- 8% ---------- 25%
New Jersey Regional ----------- 60 ---- 44 ---- 16 ---- 27% ----- 8% ---------- 30%
Finger Lakes Regional --------- 44 ---- 31 ---- 13 ---- 30% ----- 9% ---------- 27%
Alamo Regional ---------------- 60 ---- 55 ----- 5 ----- 8% ---- 32% --------- 100%
San Diego Regional ------------ 59 ---- 44 ---- 15 ---- 25% ---- 22% ---------- 47%
Florida Regional --------------- 63 ---- 58 ----- 5 ----- 8% ---- 32% ---------- 43%
WPI Regional ------------------ 34 ---- 17 ---- 17 ---- 50% ----- 6% ---------- 50%
Lake Superior Regional -------- 42 ---- 41 ----- 1 ----- 2% ---- 21% --------- 100%
Greater Kansas City Regional - 55 ---- 47 ----- 8 ---- 15% ----- 9% ---------- 16%
Pittsburgh Regional ----------- 35 ---- 20 ---- 15 ---- 43% ---- 11% ---------- 40%
Wisconsin Regional ------------ 53 ---- 32 ---- 21 ---- 40% ----- 8% ---------- 32%
New York City Regional ------- 65 ---- 44 ---- 21 ---- 32% ----- 6% ---------- 28%
Israel Regional ---------------- 52 ---- 50 ----- 2 ----- 4% ---- 10% ---------- 13%
Arizona Regional -------------- 45 ---- 45 ----- 0 ----- 0% ---- 13% ---------- 13%
Sacramento Regional ---------- 47 ---- 35 ---- 12 ---- 26% ---- 23% ---------- 47%
Peachtree Regional ------------ 49 ---- 44 ----- 5 ---- 10% ---- 20% ---------- 33%
Boilermaker Regional ---------- 41 ---- 35 ----- 6 ---- 15% ---- 12% ---------- 24%
Bayou Regional ---------------- 40 ---- 34 ----- 6 ---- 15% ---- 30% ---------- 45%
Chesapeake Regional ---------- 63 ---- 32 ---- 31 ---- 49% ----- 8% ---------- 49%
Saint Louis Regional ---------- 31 ---- 25 ----- 6 ---- 19% ---- 26% ---------- 35%
Oklahoma Regional ------------ 52 ---- 48 ----- 4 ----- 8% ---- 13% ---------- 19%
Lone Star Regional ------------ 57 ---- 57 ----- 0 ----- 0% ---- 28% ---------- 32%
Seattle Olympic Regional ------ 50 ---- 35 ---- 15 ---- 30% ---- 36% ---------- 64%
Seattle Cascade Regional ------ 48 ---- 46 ----- 2 ----- 4% ---- 17% ---------- 21%
Waterloo Regional ------------- 29 ---- 21 ----- 8 ---- 28% ----- 7% ---------- 34%
Los Angeles Regional ---------- 63 ---- 59 ----- 4 ----- 6% ---- 11% ---------- 17%
Washington DC Regional ------ 49 ---- 33 ---- 16 ---- 33% ----- 6% ---------- 33%
Hawaii Regional --------------- 29 ---- 26 ----- 3 ---- 10% ---- 17% ---------- 21%
Midwest Regional -------------- 51 ---- 34 ---- 17 ---- 33% ---- 12% ---------- 37%
SBPLI Long Island Regional --- 50 ---- 43 ----- 7 ---- 14% ----- 6% ---------- 18%
Autodesk Oregon Regional ----- 60 ---- 36 ---- 24 ---- 40% ---- 13% ---------- 30%
Palmetto Regional ------------- 46 ---- 25 ---- 21 ---- 46% ---- 11% ---------- 57%
Greater Toronto West Regional - 36 ---- 34 ----- 2 ----- 6% ---- 25% ---------- 36%
Greater Toronto East Regional - 36 ---- 29 ----- 7 ---- 19% ---- 31% ---------- 47%
Silicon Valley Regional -------- 44 ---- 42 ----- 2 ----- 5% ----- 9% ---------- 14%
Connecticut Regional --------- 53 ---- 38 ---- 15 ---- 28% ---- 17% ---------- 34%
10,000 Lakes Regional -------- 62 ---- 53 ----- 9 ---- 15% ---- 15% ---------- 29%
North Star Regional ----------- 59 ---- 48 ---- 11 ---- 19% ---- 14% ---------- 37%
Las Vegas Regional ------------ 42 ---- 11 ---- 31 ---- 74% ----- 5% ---------- 43%
Smokey Mountain Regional ---- 50 ---- 15 ---- 35 ---- 70% ---- 30% --------- 100%
Colorado Regional ------------- 45 ---- 37 ----- 8 ---- 18% ---- 16% ---------- 29%
Boston Regional --------------- 45 ---- 40 ----- 5 ---- 11% ---- 13% ---------- 27%
North Carolina Regional ------- 51 ---- 36 ---- 15 ---- 29% ---- 33% ---------- 65%
Buckeye Regional -------------- 57 ---- 42 ---- 15 ---- 26% ---- 12% ---------- 30%
Philadelphia Regional ---------- 57 ---- 36 ---- 21 ---- 37% ----- 4% ---------- 35%
Dallas East/West Regional ----- 48 ---- 47 ----- 1 ----- 2% ---- 33% ---------- 35%
Utah Regional ----------------- 28 ---- 28 ----- 0 ----- 0% ---- 25% ---------- 25%
Virginia Regional -------------- 60 ---- 53 ----- 7 ---- 12% ----- 7% ---------- 22%

[JaneYoung]

Mark,
Don't we have team from Saltillo, Mexico coming to Lone Star? FRC 3526 - Blue Ignition?

(Great name and motto, guys!)

3526
Team Name General Motors Ramos Arizpe / Nortek Controls / ACS-Xerox & ITESM Campus Saltillo
Team Location Saltillo, CU Mexico
Rookie Season 2011
Team Nickname Blue ignition
Team Motto Let's fire up science & technology...!
Team Website http://www.blueignition.com.mx

Jane

[Mark McLeod]

Just my arbitrary nature.
You can see the criteria I used next to each regional in the spreadsheet attached earlier.

Everyone's free to reject and rework the numbers as you like.
Just publish the new numbers here with the rational behind it.
If you want it I have another spreadsheet I can post with excruciating team-by-team detail on who was counted as a home team and who was counted as an away team. It might be easier to rework the numbers on that. It's a messy sheet though, because I automatically generated it and then went through reviewing team-by-team to see if it made a coarse kind of sense.

Yes, Texas sees a few Mexican teams this year, but since Mexico doesn't have a closer regional than Texas I arbitrarily counted it as a home team. The same thing goes for Mexico teams attending San Diego. I only counted Mexico teams as away if they hopped over a closer Regional to go someplace like Toronto.

It's really extreme for IA, WY, MT, ID who have quite a drive, but no close regional to attend.

For teams that don't really have a regional I just counted them as a home team if they went to the same place as last year or if they were rookies and the regional was the closest one.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

For teams that don't really have a regional I just counted them as a home team if they went to the same place as last year or if they were rookies and the regional was the closest one.

Oh, I get it. Thanks for the explanation, Mark.

Jane