How many teams participate in the VEX V5 Robotics Competition?

VEX V5 Robotics Competition
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Hi everyone! I’ve been trying to find an official source for the number of teams that participate in the VEX V5 Robotics Competition.

I’ve found 2 sources so far (RECF & VEX websites), but they both conflict with each other:

The RECF page for VEX V5 Robotics Competition states “more than 20,000 teams from 50 countries playing in over 1,700 competitions worldwide.”

The VEX Robotics competition page states “more than 14,000 teams from 53 countries playing in over 1300 tournaments.”

Which source should I reference when writing about the competition? Additionally, are there any other (preferably official) sources for these numbers?

Thank you in advance.

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Anything more than 20,000 is more than 14,000.
That is interesting, though. I’m not entirely sure where a good source for that would be.

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Usually I just look at how many teams have run skills. But I believe it is almost 10K HS teams.

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Yeah, but I kinda wanted to get a more precise estimate.

Good idea! I might run the numbers (skills in the last few seasons) soon and follow up.

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You need to factor in the teams that register for the season, but do not attend any events – and teams that attend events but did not earn a skills score. I assume (without any evidence) the numbers RECF list are registered teams.

I’m and EP in Texas Region 4, and can tell you that last season there were 117 registered V5RC HS teams, 96 of which competed at an event and 70 that earned a skills score. No idea how typical those proportions are.

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According to V5RC HS Opening ceremonies at around 30:30 on the livestream, there were 9565 HS teams this past season. Granted, this is the number for solely HS teams.

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And also, I know there are regions that have lots of unregistered teams as well.
They will never appear in any official RECF events.

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Thank you for the input. I’m mainly looking for the list of teams that participated in the competition.

Thank you! This is what I was looking for.
(for reference, IndianaForever is referring to this livestream).

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Yup. Old dudes chipping in that the RECF-stated team numbers likely include teams that do not play. It is an easier number to determine, and their concern is more oriented to “teams we have reached” than “teams that progressed far enough to compete”.

So, unless the statement explicitly states x number of teams competed last season, you will need to modify the number some amount downward.

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We use the website https://vrc-data-analysis.com/ to check skill and match data. That data is exportable in Excel. Within that, you would want to check which teams were included in the match schedule, and for other events, you would want to look at the skills run, if a skills only tournament. There is also “NULL DATA” listed in the spreadsheet. How that data is officially used, I do not know. I would say the teams are still there, just maybe didn’t register or renew, maybe didn’t compete at all? Who knows… Back to the spreadsheet, cross-reference both sets of data, remove duplicates and then see what you get. You could use last year’s data as a starting point to check the actual number. Again, some teams will register for tournaments and not actually compete for various reasons.