Should be soon with this many teams. Just need to be able to get an organizing committee together.
I made a map of where teams are in China. There are 14 in the proximity of Hong Kong / Shenzhen. It is, however, about 1200 miles from Beijing where 2 teams are. So, my immediate reaction is hold it near Shenzhen and several teams will just have to fly (but they do that already to Hawaii or Sydney or elsewhere).
Thanks Ed!
My version of Michigan stats is up here for anybody curious. Ed’s spreadsheet has which teams are registered for specific MI districts, and I’ll try to keep up with team count and retention stats.
Team 5813 is registered for WPI.
By the way, this is my first post here on Chief Delphi. :]
Considering your team is less than 24 hours old, I’m not surprised;)
Despite the fact that my team is a rookie team, I’ve been involved in FRC since 2012. I used to be on 1517.
3132 is excited to be heading to the snow for the first time since our rookie season (when we went to the old Granite State Regional)! Northern Lights is looking like a great regional!
As of right now:
NOVA: 25 teams
Greater DC: 19 teams
Central Virginia: 17 teams
Northern VA will fill out easily in the next phase: the other two will likely pick up teams who registered at one of the other four events. For example, I suspect most of the Southwest VA event teams to register for Central during 2nd event.
Why? We have friends over in Vassar with team #5784 https://www.thebluealliance.com/team/5784
I think the number is 5790 (or they might just go 5800 for uniformity sake, but there’s a team registered under 5791 with no 2015 events listed but with 2016 events)
TBA also shows a team number 5777 registered to a team who did not compete last year.
Our friends in China are shooting for a regional in 2017. FIRST will need to make a decision in the near future if they are willing to support a new regional in China. Things are moving in the right direction but nothing is solid yet. Venue location decision is more than just a geographic one. Sometimes location of major sponsors affect where a regional is held. There will be many more than 2 teams from the Beijing area, by the way.
According to TBA, Rookies this year start at 5788, it seems.
~Daler
I saw them on the official registered team list.
http://frclinks.frclinks.com/team/5777
Only 5777 is listed that low, so it probably has 3 or more students who competed elsewhere last year and isn’t officially a rookie team, but a veteran.
All the other rookies start at team 5800, so that’s probably the right number.
I’ll revise the number in post 1.
The highest team number I see from last year is 5786.
Probably 5777 looks like a rookie because they registered last year, but did not compete. TBA shows them registered for GA S, but with no results - a no show?
We look forward to having you up here in week 1! If you haven’t yet, book hotels… the close ones fill up fast! You’ll love the atmosphere at the DECC - two 60 team regionals under one roof, with just a hallway separating the pits and double curtains separating the fields… it’s an amazing venue to hold events in - I think I like it even better than our “home” regional in Minneapolis 
Teams at the Doswell event are going to end up effectively are going to compete at the same event roster wise in Blacksburg.
So I should probably already know this, but I’ll ask my 2 questions anyway. I believe that if a team wins a regional event and they already were a winner at a previous event in the season then the captain of the Finalist team is granted a championship entrance.
If a HoF team (like 254) wins the event, does the captain of the finalist team get to go to championship?
Furthermore, if there were two teams or three teams who already made it to championships (254, 1114, 33) are the winning alliiance, do all three teams from the Finalist alliance make it?
Yeah, I saw the NOVA registration coming. Nate made a good choice by signing us up for it first. We are going to have some bummed out week 3 teams come second registration that have to compete in back to back weeks.
This is subject to change this year, but as of last year, wild cards were generated from any pre-competition qualifications.
If a HoF team or previous year CMP winner wins at their first event, a wild card is generated. If a team wins and also earns Chairman’s/EI at the same regional, a wildcard is generated for the finalist alliance. If any team wins in a regional AFTER they’ve earned a qualification spot in a previous regional in the same year (win, RCA, EI, RAS) it generates a wild card.
If a qualified team earns RCA/EI and wins at the same regional, they generate 2 wild card slots.
Wild cards are passed down the finalist alliance in pick order until the next new team qualifies for the Championship. Wild cards are “lost” if everyone on the finalist alliance is also qualified.
Some of you may have caught the mistake already. FIRST changed the event code of Woodhaven Michigan District from mifla to mibro. I uploaded a new spreadsheet in http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/3169 or you can just change the cell W23 in sheet “Teams List for Events” to mibro.
Incorrect. Last year HOF, original sustaining team and championship award winners generated wild cards right away.
My mistake. I misremembered some of the differences between 2014 and 2015. I remembered the team generating a wild card if they double qualified, because we would have benefited from that in 2014 as the 1st pick on the finalist alliance.
For reference, here’s the blog post actually describing the current wild card procedure: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/blog-2015-FIRST-Championship-and-beyond-Eligibility
