2009 Regional Registration Progress

Snapshot of registration as of 10/30/2008

As a side note, it looks like FIRST handled registration like they used to some years ago - first-signed up = first-registered in a second regional or at the Championships. For the past few years it had been first-paid = first-registered and you wouldn’t show up on the team list until payment was received by FIRST, but this year you got on the registered list right away without having to pay beforehand. FIRST also did not accept pre-payment in advance of registering.

7 resurrected veteran teams. 4 took one year off and 3 took two years off.
I didn’t look to see how many old teams were given new team numbers, but there are 5 new teams that are technically non-rookies.

Where Teams are from in 2009


**MI                    **122
**CA                   **120
**NY                   **104
**TX                    **72
**NJ                   **53
**MN                  **52
**MA                  **50
**VA                   **49
**ON  Canada   **48
**MO                  **47
**OK                  **47
**WA                  **46
**IL                     **45
**FL                   **42
**PA                   **40
**AZ                   **34
**CT                   **32
**OH                  **32
**IN                    **29
**WI                   **28
**OR                  **26
**NH                   **25
**GA                  **24
**CO                  **23
**MD                  **23
**KS                   **20
**SC                   **19
**HI                    **17
**DC                   **13
**LA                   **12
**PR                   **12
**MS                  **10
**NV                   **10
**ID                    **9
**Israel               **8
**NC                   **7
**ME                  **6
**AL**               5
**ND                   **5
**TN                   **4
**United Kingdom  **4
**UT                   **4
**AK                   **3
**Brazil              **3
**IA                    **3
**KY                   **3
**VT                   **3
**WV                  **3
**BC  Canada    **2
**DE                   **2
**Mexico            **2
**NM                  **2
**RI                    **2
**WY                  **2
**AR                   **1
**Chile**               1
**Netherlands**   1
**QC Canada     **1
**Turkey**          1

Regionals:
Capacity usually has more than these publicly listed slots available, but how many? Only the Regional Directors know for sure, and the waitlisted teams they may have spoken to.


W eek 1           
58 (full)            Washington DC Regional
51 (full)            Oklahoma City Regional
54 (full)            Greater Kansas City Regional
47 (full)            Midwest Regional
42 (full)            BAE Systems Granite State Regional
33   ?                **Traverse City MI District
56 (full)           New Jersey Regional
44                    Buckeye Regional
 
Week 2            
52 (full)            Boston Regional
37   ?                 **Kettering University MI District
53                    Oregon Regional
42                    Finger Lakes Regional
53                    New York City Regional
28                    San Diego Regional
 
Week 3            
54 (full)           Florida Regional
40 (full)           Silicon Valley Regional
32  ?                **Cass Tech MI District
44                    Los Angeles Regional
40  (full)          Peachtree Regional
43                    Wisconsin Regional
43                    Dallas Regional
24  (full)          Pittsburgh Regional
 
Week 4            
45                    NASA VCU Regional
40                    Arizona Regional
33   ?               **Detroit MI District
30  (full)          Boilermaker Regional
46  (full)          Philadelphia Regional
28   ?               **Lansing MI District
42                    Chesapeake Regional
27                    St. Louis Regional
25                    Bayou Regional
9                      Waterloo Regional
8                      Israel Regional
 
Week 5            
58 (full)           Microsoft Seattle Regional
45  (full)          SBPLI Long Island Regional
34   ?               **West Michigan MI District
53  (full)          Lone Star Regional
32    ?               **Troy MI District
53                    Greater Toronto Regional
53  (full)          Connecticut Regional
27  (full)          Palmetto Regional
34  (full)          Sacramento Regional
33                    Colorado Regional
34                    Las Vegas Regional
22                    Hawaii Regional
?                      **Michigan State
 
Week 6            
40  (full)          Minnesota 10000 Lakes Regional
32                    Minnesota North Star Regional
 
** restricted to Michigan teams only – capacities are not publicized

New teams (including 5 technically non-rookies) are from:


TX                      39
WA                    21
MN                     14
OK                     13
MI                      11
IL                       11
DC                     9
CA                     8
NY                     7
MO                    7
MA                     6
OR                     5
OH                     5
GA                     5
WI                      4
PR                     4
ON                     4
FL                      4
CO                     4
MD                     3
IN                       3
ID                       3
HI                       3
CT                      3
AZ                      3
VA                     2
UT                      2
TN                      2
SC                     2
NJ                      2
MS                     2
LA                      2
KY                     2
AL                 2
Turkey            1
NH                     1
AK                     1