Registration 2014

[AGPapa]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

The increase in Districts has increased the percentage of 2-event teams.
The shortage of Regional slots have reduced the percentage of 3+event teams.
The 2014 numbers aren't complete yet, so expect some changes.

Including 2014 Districts & Regionals:

• (1) 4-event team (.04%)
• (34) 3-event teams (1.24%)
• (1073) 2-event teams (39.02%)
• (1642) 1-event teams (59.71%)

As a comparison in 2013 the percentages were:

• 5&6-event teams .84%
• 4-event teams 2.7%
• 3-event teams 22.8%
• 2-event teams 27.8%
• 1-event teams 56.8%

Do your 2013 numbers include District Championships/World Championship?

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by AGPapa

Do your 2013 numbers include District Championships/World Championship?

They did before, but not now.
I went back to matching numbers from comparable time periods.

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

The increase in Districts has increased the percentage of 2-event teams.
The shortage of Regional slots really haven't reduced the percentage of 3+event teams. At least not significantly yet.
The 2014 numbers aren't complete yet, so expect some changes.

Including 2014 Districts & Regionals:

• (1) 4-event team (.04%)
• (34) 3-event teams (1.24%)
• (1073) 2-event teams (39.02%)
• (1642) 1-event teams (59.71%)

As a comparison in 2013 at roughly this same time of registration, the percentages were:

• (4) 4-event teams (.16%)
• (41) 3-event teams (1.63%)
• (760) 2-event teams (30.13%)
• (1717) 1-event teams (68.08%)

Can you exclude districts and give the same numbers for teams outside of them?

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Wetzel

Can you exclude districts and give the same numbers for teams outside of them?

I just so happened to have this sitting around...

2014:

• (1) 4-event team (0.05%)
• (24) 3-event team (1.17%)
• (527) 2-event team (25.78%)
• (1492) 1-event team (72.99%)

2013:

• (5) 4-event team (0.26%)
• (30) 3-event team (1.57%)
• (443) 2-event team (23.18%)
• (1433) 1-event team (74.99%)

P.S.
The 2013 #'s now do NOT include teams in areas that are in districts in 2014.
I have to revisit and verify these numbers, because I keep getting distracted...

[Pjohn1959]

I have seen that the Hub City Regional is down to 47 after it peaked at 51 teams. All of the Australian teams are gone. I wonder if they couldn't come up with the needed funds to cover all the expenses for this year. Very sad, I was looking forward to meeting the blokes from down under.

[Mr V]

Originally Posted by Pjohn1959

I have seen that the Hub City Regional is down to 47 after it peaked at 51 teams. All of the Australian teams are gone. I wonder if they couldn't come up with the needed funds to cover all the expenses for this year. Very sad, I was looking forward to meeting the blokes from down under.

As mentioned a number of the Austrialian teams are what are considered paid forfeit. They register and pay so they can get a kit and then inform FIRST that they will not be attending. Hopefully FIRST down under can grow to the point that they can have their own regional and all of the teams can compete in an official FIRST event and have the opportunity to win a spot at CMP.

[Ernst]

FRC has another new country!

Rookie team 5311, the Space Cookies of Colombia, from Bogota, Colombia, registered for Silicon Valley.

[Mark McLeod]

Kazakhstan
Team 5328


18 countries heard from (not counting any of the Kit-only teams)

1-Colombia
1-England
1-Germany
1-Kazakhstan
1-Netherlands
1-Singapore
1-Taiwan
1-United Arab Emirates
2-Dominican Republic
3-Chile
9-Brazil
9-Turkey
11-Australia
13-China
39-Mexico
52-Israel
182-Canada
2459-USA

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Kazakhstan
Team 5328

This is the single greatest achievement in FRC history.

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Kazakhstan
Team 5328

[Alpha Beta]

Now that registration is officially closed, how long until FIRST clears all of the waitlists? Are the teams the get in off the waitlist selected at the regional director level, or by FIRST HQ? Is there a standard algorithm on who gets in?

Teams not registered anywhere else > Rookie > Local Area Team > Teams trying for a 2nd event > Teams trying for a 3rd event?

[Mark McLeod]

It's a little unique to the individual events as to when the lists get cleared.
Many are cleared already.

If you have an event in mind I can give you what happened for registration last year.

I think the Regional Director, et. al. draw up a recommended list of teams to pull off the waitlist and submit it to FIRST HQ who has the final say and may revise the order based on criteria the RD may not be aware of.
Different RD's may have different priorities, but your suggested list, if not the absolute order, seems reasonable. I'd add regional diversity as another possible criteria.

[Wetzel]

Still waiting on Troy, it's our only hope for a second regional for three of my teams.

[Mark McLeod]

Several teams from Long Island were told they didn't have a prayer of getting off the waitlist for Troy, because it's the closest for so many teams sandwiched by the MAR/NE Districts, so a couple of them switched to Cleveland where the waitlist was short.
Other teams had to just bow out of a second event altogether this year.

So just because an event doesn't show available room, it may be worth it to talk to FIRST HQ about possible alternate events.
Although it probably means more driving time (~3 times more for LI to Cleveland, than for LI to Troy, but for DC it's 6 hrs to either event).

[Mark McLeod]

2794 teams, but it's oscillating up/down still. Expect that number to rise a bit and drop off even more over the next few weeks.
Here's the registration chart as of the close.