This is a data thread that pops up once a year (10th anniversary) that is focused on the progress of FRC team registration.
Rookie team numbers have started being assigned beginning with 6800. (yea, even before event registration begins)
For pre-event selection they apparently have to have two team leaders completely registered and the initial team fee paid to get assigned their official team number.
Before that rookies get a number like 201800066 or some such and there are a bunch of those.
Once a rookie gets registered (accepted) into an event and listed, they will also get assigned an official number (before having to complete payment).
(I have rookie team 6806, Mineola Wild Reds, in my own LI backyard.)
With the introduction of this yearâs new Event Preference Selection process it will look a little different starting at the end of the month with a suddenly populated set of events and appearance of teams. I think we will still get the straggling team registration all the way through December that we usually see-late organizing return veterans and new rookies.
I ran some stats on all of the currently registered pre-permanent teams and there are quite a few internationally. Linked is a pastebin with temporary numbers and country of origin. Some curious inclusions include (in no particular order):
Greece
Japan
Brazil
Turkey
Vietnam
Russia
Lybia
Netherlands
Bangladesh
Dominican Republic
Chinese Taipei
Taiwan
Romania (AutoVortex from FTC)
As of posting this, 6818 is the highest assigned team number permanently.
âTurkey (Istanbul Regional) shouldnât be considered curiousâtheyâll be pushing hard to get more rookie teams to fill out the regional. I wouldnât be surprised if they had the highest number of rookies in just about anywhere, and less surprised if they had the highest percentage.
âGreece is right next to Turkey. So is Russia. If the teams from those countries are anywhere near the Turkish border, theyâre also beneficiaries of/heavily recruited by the Istanbul Regional.
âLikewise, China added a second regional. This would tend to draw more teams from that area. (Chinese Taipei, Taiwan)
âBrazil has had teams for YEARS. Even had a regional about 10 years ago, for a season, but couldnât keep it going. I might suspect theyâre trying to reboot, particularly with the Aussies being relatively close.
Brazil - I know there were teams, and a regional in Brazil a number of years back. I say curious as Iâm glad thereâs a seeming resurgence.
Chinese Taipei & Taiwan - Mostly a logistical oddity considering (as far as my admittedly limited understanding of geopolitics is) theyâre the same country.
Countries surrounding the Istanbul regional - You got me here, it logically makes sense, but makes me happy to see more teams in a new regional.
Personally this is the first time Iâve been fortunate enough to âwatch them roll inâ so this is new to me, but Iâm glad to see international expansion (at least from my limited point of view.)
Just to add in Frankâs registration data from the FRC BlogâŚ
As of September 24 @ 10 PM (3.5 days):
2,226 teams had submitted event preferences (this is on par with last yearâs total of 2299 at the same 3.5 day point, although the circumstances are completely different)
2671 (2226 + 20%) teams that have prepped by listed 2 leaders and getting them to complete the associated paperwork. They probably donât feel the rush to get it in until Thursdayâs deadline.
*]46% (1024 teams - coincidence?) only want one particular event.
Just copying this FRC Blog post data over, since Frank is our data source until the first event assignments get made:
As of September 27, 10:00 PM:
2,952 teams had submitted preferences. (726 added event preferences in the past 3 days)
This was about 93% of teams who were âEvent Ready.â
We still had 231 teams who were âEvent Readyâ but had not yet submitted preferences. (total 3183-thatâs about 400 teams who got their two mentor/leaders paperwork completed in preparation the last 3 days.)
46% of teams preferenced a single event (1358)
Iâm busy with an Hudson Valley Rally the next few days, so any updates if the actual team lists are released tomorrow will be delayed.
Please post if anyone comes up with interesting numbers (including any corrections to my math :).
Worth noting that PNW and Michigan are using the Home Event system, and any team that wishes to accept their home event selects ONLY their home event as a preference. So that may artificially skew the numbers of single-preference-listed teams.
If 57% of all teams are Regional teams, and 46% of all teams only asked for one event, that means 80% of Regional teams are one-event-only? That seems absurdly high.
Edit: Saw Evanâs post. I guess there are a bunch of PNW/MI teams. Still seems like a bunch of one-and-dones.
DoubleEdit: Perhaps Regional teams are only putting one regional down, not wishing to play Russian Roulette, and plan to get their second during open enrollment.
Your double edit is getting close. Teams chose one event and will probably only pick one event in the 2nd round. Teams are only getting to register for 1 event today, not 2. In 2ish weeks we get to run through this whole ordeal again for 2nd event registration.
I canât speak for other teams but we only put one event down for this 1st round as were pretty confident that there will be space in the other event we plan to sign up for in the 2nd round, but arenât sure that there will be space for our 1st choice in the 2nd round so its better to (at worst) get on the wait-list for an event we actually want to go to than register for an event you donât want to go to.
These arenât one-and-dones, these are just the *must have *first events.
Think of it this way instead:
Last year everyone was only able to select a single event for this round.
For this year teams are able to expand their choices as to what theyâll take as their must have event.
PNW & MI teams comprise ~18% of all teams, so that is a big chunk of the 46% asking for one particular first event.