This is a thread, one of a series over the years, dedicated to general stats about the speed, strength and direction of team & event registration for FRC (& serves as a campfire when the lights of registration servers go out).
P.S. Attached a plot of developing registration over the years.
Data is always welcome here. However, please take chatter about specific events or teams to more appropriate threads on those topics.
If you are maintaining running event/team/districts data on other threads or in standalone google spreadsheets and you want to share, please feel free to link to them or post here.
Starting stats:
3380 rough projection of the 2017 team total count. That’s from 3130 total teams last season (finally settled on April 6 just before most District Championships) and I expect the gain this year is probably going to be between 7 and 8 percent which is roughly the average gain of the past couple of years.
6300 will be the starting Rookie number for this season (#6237 was the last rookie registered last season & FIRST usually rounds up to save a few team numbers each season).
10 District areas (vs 8 last season), new districts in Israel, Ontario
78 District events (vs 65 last season), plus 10 District Championships (vs 8) , and there is always the possibility of a late popup event in Michigan.
55 Regionals showing (vs 53 last season)
New Regionals in Texas, China, New York, Australia, Wisconsin, California (did I miss any?) Mexico
Two World Championship locations (vs 1 last season)
Favorite links:
Watch your favorite events fill again courtesy of Aren Siekmeier : http://173.255.246.196/2017/
Click on the code column for a list of teams currently registered at each event.
Not a favorite since the latest FIRST team/event portal has issues, such as listing teams that are in error so the total counts are wrong, but it should be mentioned as the official page: Team and Event Search | FIRST
I’m having trouble making this generating data at this site. 2016 & 2017 FRC events and teams aren’t showing. I’ve tried under Chrome, Safari and Firefox. Anyone have any pointers?
Interested to see total Regional registration numbers after today.
Los Angeles is downgrading, Orange County is upgrading, and many other Regionals are moving to different venues. With several new events, I hope regional registration #s are generally up, but have a lower teams:regional ratio.
I agree it’s very unlikely. Assuming teams start getting assigned #'s starting at 6300, it would require two normal years worth of rookies to reach 7000. Next year yes.
On some of these, you have to qualify for, like District and World championships. Some, like the Mexico City regional still do not have a event location, so you must apply to the waitlist and then be accepted afterwards once they have a location set. Some, like the Seven Rivers Regional, require you to be checked manually by FIRST to make sure that you are not in a conflict (see the recent blog post about this one). It won’t be an issue for most people, just submit to be on the waitlist.
Here’s the link to my 2017 edition of FiM team and event stats. It’s not particularly populated at the moment as I’m trying to remember how I compiled data efficiently the last two years. I’ll update every day or two while registration is active.
District event registration opened today at noon. Public facing APIs and database queries were disabled until now, it seems that they are all up again.
Restarting registration with only District teams today (Regional teams tomorrow).
560 district teams registered by the half hour.
The current rate of event registration is roughly 2 teams/minute
3.7% are rookies
Granite State is full of course.
WPI will be a close second, but not yet.
