2008 Regional Registration Progress

[Richard Wallace]

Back to my typical geekiness. I've compiled an early list showing 2008 FRC regional registration progress. As expected, Week 1 and Week 2 events seem to be filling a little faster than others; fewer spots are available those weeks because there are fewer events.

Some events are already shown as full, although it is very likely that spots are being held in reserve for new teams at those events. The ones that appear full as of this tally are: BAE Granite State, Midwest, Greater Kansas City, Detroit, Oklahoma City, and Hawaii.

I'll try to update this list periodically, until/unless FIRST posts a summary. They've done that in previous years but I couldn't find it today.

Please keep in mind that while TIMS is open this data can and will change often, so by time I submit this post it will already be out of date.

Regional / Attending / Open

BAE Granite State / 38 / 0
Midwest Chicago / 33 / 0
New Jersey / 19 / 34
Oregon / 12 / 42
St. Louis / 9 / 29
Week 1: / 111 / 105 / 51% full

Arizona / 19 / 35
Finger Lakes / 16 / 16
Greater Kansas City / 54 / 0
NASA/VCU Richmond / 31 / 25
San Diego / 14 / 24
Week 2: / 134 / 100 / 57% full

Boilermaker / 21 / 11
Brazil / 0 / 30
Chesapeake / 11 / 43
Connecticut / 15 / 55
Detroit / 30 / 0
Florida / 47 / 7
Peachtree / 18 / 20
Pittsburgh / 4 / 27
Silicon Valley / 20 / 20
Wisconsin / 17 / 37
Week 3: / 183 / 250 / 42% full

Buckeye / 4 / 46
Lone Star / 9 / 45
Los Angeles / 14 / 28
Microsoft Seattle / 13 / 19
Oklahoma City / 32 / 0
Davis/Sacramento / 6 / 28
Waterloo / 4 / 22
West Michigan / 16 / 28
Israel / 0 / 42
Week 4: / 98 / 258 / 28% full

Bayou / 9 / 45
Boston / 19 / 21
Colorado / 8 / 30
Great Lakes / 31 / 23
Greater Toronto / 6 / 48
Hawaii / 9 / 0
Las Vegas / 4 / 37
Minnesota / 11 / 21
Palmetto / 6 / 25
Philadelphia / 16 / 18
SBPLI Long Island / 32 / 1
Week 5: / 151 / 269 / 36% full

New York City / 18 / 36 / 33% full

[Billfred]

Interesting data, Richard--and certainly reassuring for those of us whose teams have yet to register.

I've been compiling my own data as to which teams are still missing, which can be seen here. My method was to copy the data from teams by state from 2007 (seen here for South Carolina), compile in the spreadsheet, then compare against this roster, which appears to show all teams registered for a 2008 FRC event. (It lines up with my spot-checks and checking of nearby regionals.) As of about 1:00 PM today, I counted 698 teams yet to register out of 1,298 teams listed from 2007.

I'll update the sheet as I get time over the coming weeks.

[Richard Wallace]

Thanks for the sanity-check, Billfred. It agrees with my more cursory observation (a few minutes after posting the list above) that about 700 teams have registered for their first-choice regional. So on day two of 2008 registrations we are already above half the number of teams that participated in 2007.

I'm guessing there will be over 400 rookie teams this year, so relative to the eventual total about 41% have registered so far.

[Richard Wallace]

Abbreviated update: 779 teams now registered. Two more regionals appear to be filling up. SBPLI Long Island now shows 31 teams attending and zero open slots. Florida now shows 51 teams attending and just 3 open slots. This brings the total to eight regionals that appear to be full, or nearly so.

Will update the full list in post #1 next week.

[Greg Marra]

As of right now, I count 776 registered teams, distributed as follows:

I can do really neat analysis of things because I have The Blue Alliance database.

Teams Registered 	Event Name
38 	BAE SYSTEMS Granite State Regional
34 	Midwest Regional
20 	New Jersey Regional
14 	Oregon Regional
11 	St. Louis Regional
23 	Arizona Regional
18 	Finger Lakes Regional
54 	Greater Kansas City Regional
37 	NASA / VCU Regional
16 	San Diego Regional
22 	Boilermaker Regional
13 	Chesapeake Regional
17 	Connecticut Regional
30 	Detroit Regional
51 	Florida Regional
23 	Peachtree Regional
4 	Pittsburgh Regional
26 	Silicon Valley Regional
21 	Wisconsin Regional
7 	Buckeye Regional
10 	Lone Star Regional
16 	Los Angeles Regional
15 	Microsoft Seattle Regional
32 	Oklahoma City Regional
6 	UC Davis Sacramento Regional
4 	Waterloo Regional
19 	West Michigan Regional
13 	Bayou Regional
26 	Boston Regional
12 	Colorado Regional

[Pat Fairbank]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

As of right now, I count 776 registered teams, distributed as follows:

I can do really neat analysis of things because I have The Blue Alliance database.

That doesn't seem quite right - aren't there 41 regionals this year? I'm only seeing 30.

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

That doesn't seem quite right - aren't there 41 regionals this year? I'm only seeing 30.

I suspect my query is omitting nulls.

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

That doesn't seem quite right - aren't there 41 regionals this year? I'm only seeing 30.

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

I suspect my query is omitting nulls.

Great Lakes Regional (week 5) is missing from your list. I know there are teams registered for it.

I also don't see Minnesota and Philadelphia, week 5 or New York week 6. I suspect your list got cut off partway through.

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

Great Lakes Regional (week 5) is missing from your list. I know there are teams registered for it.

I also don't see Minnesota and Philadelphia, week 5 or New York week 6. I suspect your list got cut off partway through.

I am foolish. This is the first 30 results of the query...

Here are all of them, as of when I posted earlier. The second number is the week times ten. IE Week 1 = 10

Teams Registered 	week*10 	name
38 	10 	BAE SYSTEMS Granite State Regional
34 	10 	Midwest Regional
20 	10 	New Jersey Regional
14 	10 	Oregon Regional
11 	10 	St. Louis Regional
23 	20 	Arizona Regional
18 	20 	Finger Lakes Regional
54 	20 	Greater Kansas City Regional
37 	20 	NASA / VCU Regional
16 	20 	San Diego Regional
22 	30 	Boilermaker Regional
13 	30 	Chesapeake Regional
17 	30 	Connecticut Regional
30 	30 	Detroit Regional
51 	30 	Florida Regional
23 	30 	Peachtree Regional
4 	30 	Pittsburgh Regional
26 	30 	Silicon Valley Regional
21 	30 	Wisconsin Regional
7 	40 	Buckeye Regional
10 	40 	Lone Star Regional
16 	40 	Los Angeles Regional
15 	40 	Microsoft Seattle Regional
32 	40 	Oklahoma City Regional
6 	40 	UC Davis Sacramento Regional
4 	40 	Waterloo Regional
19 	40 	West Michigan Regional
13 	50 	Bayou Regional
26 	50 	Boston Regional
12 	50 	Colorado Regional
8 	50 	Greater Toronto Regional
36 	50 	Great Lakes Regional
7 	50 	Las Vegas Regional
13 	50 	Minnesota Regional
7 	50 	Palmetto Regional
20 	50 	Philadelphia Regional
32 	50 	SBPLI Long Island Regional
21 	60 	New York City Regional

[Richard Wallace]

As of this evening there are 100 rookie FRC teams registered for 2008. And registration has only been open for five days.

[TKM.368]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

Here are all of them, as of when I posted earlier.

So sad, Hawaii doesn't rate (and neither does Israel or Brazil).

[Greg Marra]

The Blue Alliance Events Page now provides a semi-live count of teams attending each regional. Waterloo and Pittsburg seem particularly empty as of yet.

[ChuckDickerson]

According to the FIRST Calender of Important Deadlines "Registration closes - Ends on line - 03-Dec-2007" which was yesterday. What exactly does this mean? Can a team still register for additional events just not online or are the events now "locked"? I have never been part of the registration process so I don't know how it works. I am just wondering because there still seems to be a lot of open slots at some regionals and a lot of teams are still working to raise funding. I can't imagine why registration would be closed for events that don't happen for another 3 or 4 months when there are slots available. What actually closed yesterday and when is the real drop dead last day to register for an event?

[Mark McLeod]

Several teams have appeared on the registered list after yesterday's deadline, but they may have already been in process. Extensions may have been granted due to this past weekend's database failures too.

We probably all know of FIRST working with teams up to the last minute when they have difficulty raising funds, so the payment deadlines can certainly be flexible as long as FIRST staff is involved early on. I can easily believe there are extenuating circumstances where FIRST will work with a team to bring them in, in spite of the Registration deadline.

In the case of the Israeli teams I have to consider that anything is possible if a large number of teams are affected and you have the support of the Regional Director behind you.

I have seen teams register for an additional Regional after the deadline (pretty late too), however, I don't know any background details. For instance, they might have paid for another Regional, but were shutout. As long as FIRST and the Regional Director can be talked into letting them in anything is possible.

P.S. There is still some setting going on. Five more rookies appeared on 12/5, four rookies disappeared, several missing vets registered, several vets de-registered, etc.

[Jon236]

The Israeli teams are unfortunately affected by the on-going high school teacher's strike. Hopefully this will be solved before kickoff! We are looking forward to making the most out of Microsoft's kind support.

Many teams in Israel continue to meet and plan despite the strike. Can we start a roll-call of Israeli teams that are active?