How many teams in 2005?

[tkwetzel]

Will Michigan host 100 teams this year?

They are up to 70 already!

[Cory]

Originally Posted by tkwetzel

Will Michigan host 100 teams this year?

They are up to 70 already!

Michigan was over 100 last year, I believe.

CA and Michigan trade the lead. I want to say CA had 96 last year and Michigan had slightly more than 100

[tkwetzel]

I didn't think that MI had more than 100 teams last, though you are most likely right.

And as of right now, CA is only at 41 teams.

[Denman]

519 teams signed up at this point... going strong
highest rookie 1538 @ vegas

[Manoel]

555 teams and the newest rookie is from England...
Team 1542, exscitec/Imperial College & Issac Newton Centre, from London. Pretty cool!

[LBK Rules]

2nd-year teams, especialy non-school ones, probably won't get in early. I'm on one.

[Denman]

Originally Posted by Manoel

555 teams and the newest rookie is from England...
Team 1542, exscitec/Imperial College & Issac Newton Centre, from London. Pretty cool!

yeh, unfortunatly we havn't been able to contact them...
we are actually based in cambridge, which is about 40 miles from london (about an hour by train or car) so it would be nice to tlak to them or to mentor or help them in any way we could

[Jeremy]

we aren’t signed up yet but we will be we are making some final organization with the team because about 90% of the team this year are freshmen but we will be signed up don’t know for which comps though but we are trying to go to 2 regionals and nats "that’s if we have the money for all that"

[Doug G]

I bet it will be just over a 1000 teams, maybe 1100 tops. The $500 deposit is probably keeping some financially strapped teams from signing up immediately. I bet the second/third round of sign-ups will vastly show the difference between the teams with and without $$. Those with $$ in their coffers will sign up ASAP.

[RoboMom]

Originally Posted by Doug G

The $500 deposit is probably keeping some financially strapped teams from signing up immediately. .

I believe the $500 deposit is not for the first sign-up. Just for the subsequent regional sign-ups.

Each teams' first payment is due at the same time. $6000 on Dec. 3.

[Andrew]

Looks like new team registration has really slowed. There are about 640 teams on Oct. 13. With the second event open deadline approaching (28 October), it will be interesting to see how many regionals fill up (and therefore limit more new teams showing up).

[Alex Cormier]

i wanna say 1126 with the highest number at 1773

[Tyler 783]

Unlike all of you pecifist's i'm going to say 1300 a fair increase from last year. And about those people who are saying that there are going to be alot of teams folding this year I have one thing to say to you. Last week my team was going to be one of those teams that was going to be folding but due to my tierless efforts in the last month we have almost everything we need to compete (minus the robot of course) and anything we don't have I know we will eventualy get (Like the Robot). I beleive that there is a person like me on every team out there that is threatening to fold and they will do whatever it takes to make sure their team doesn't fold.

Just had to get that out I just found out 2 hours ago that my team wasn't going to fold. Hope to see you all in Atlanta!!

[Koko Ed]

OK. It needs to be asked.
Where's the BBS?

[Andrew]

Looks like we're almost up to 700 teams on 10/18

733 - 35 (CMP) - 1(generico) = 697