In case you have not read the recent CDS newsletters on SAE website, it has been announced as it was announced at every event, slots will be reserved for the top finishing teams of the official competitions of the 2006 Formula SAE Series as follows:
 Formula SAE (Michigan) – Top 10 teams
 Formula SAE West – Top 5 teams
 Formula SAE Australasia – Top 2 teams
 Formula SAE Brazil – Top team
 Formula SAE Italy – Top 2 teams
 Formula Student – Top 5 teams

Teams that earned a reserved slot will have the option of registering early for either the 2007 Formula SAE (Michigan) or 2007 Formula SAE West (California) events at the team's choice. Any reserved slots that are not taken by the winning teams will be offered as part of the open registration. Kaley Shellhammer, Formula SAE Program Coordinator will be contacting teams one week before registration opens. If you need to contact her, you can reach her anytime at shellham@sae.org. If you want to submit a contact person for registration, please email her the name and phone number.

Registration for all teams will follow the 2006 model in that teams will only be allowed to register for one event for the first month, after the conclusion of the first month if any slots are still open they will be free game to everyone.

REGISTRATION OPENS OCTOBER 2, 2006 at 10:00 am EDT
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!!!

We're registed as team 13 at West. Stoked!

East sold out in 20 minutes.

We couldn't get the thing to show the register tab for quite some time, and then the pages wouldn't reload. I think one of the guys about had a heart attack (combination of being old and freaking out), but we got in at 31 after trying to get on for about 15-20 minutes for west.

Yeah, it was extremely quick. We're hoping to be able to register for West after the one month wait. We'll see how it goes.

Registration for Michigan actually closed in a record of 19 minutes.

For the many teams who did not make registration, FSAE West is still open and has the cap limit of 80 cars.

And, YES, after one month so meaning November 2, 2006, registration for the FSAE West event (if spots are still available) will open to all teams.

Wow that was stressful. It took forever for the registration screen to come up. Barely got in at 103. Can't imagine what my team would have done to me if we didn't get registered....

I love Registration Stress jajaja UCV with the 89 after 13 minutes trying!

This time our car will arrive!

5 Venezuelan Teams this year nice!

Good luck to all going to competition!!!

And congratulation to the UNEXPO there first time at competition!

holy cow, our guy almost died also. We were at 119 of 130! I cannot imagine the stress for the team that got the last slot!

University of Evansville, registered #129 baby......just about had a heart attack.....

Dustin Jones
Powertrain

'This year, 99 is the new number 1'

Nah just playin. TU Graz is prob gonna kick serious ass. Wow.

We had the same problem as WSU did. The register button would not show up and we had people trying to figure out what is going on and people counting down how many registered. At 10:14pm we finally got the register button to pop up and it was good for spot 101. What a stressful morning

Who did not get in??? I see Texas A&M is going to west not east?!

Doesn't look like OSU got in, that's got to suck, they are signed up for West though.

edit: Also, I wonder why OSU's registration name isn't "THE Ohio State University"

A&M was prereged for West.

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Originally posted by Alex Kwan:
A&M was prereged for West.

From what I understand they had the option of transfering their prereg spot to east if they wanted to. you can see that other teams that finished in the top 5 at west are registered for east first. But if I was A&M i would probably want to go west before east, defending champs and they also get to paint a #1 on their car.

I like the idea of keeping the top numbering spots for the top teams, but why do they get to register early? New year, new members, new car - should be a fair game for all. Registration spots are hard to come by and the car number should be enough of a reward isn't it?

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like the idea of keeping the top numbering spots for the top teams, but why do they get to register early? New year, new members, new car - should be a fair game for all. Registration spots are hard to come by and the car number should be enough of a reward isn't it?

it ensures that some quality cars get in each year, no?

I do not feel that SAE does this to ensure that quality cars come to competition each year. As we all know it only takes one small failure to completely ruin your whole competition, and these failures can happen to anyone.(for example, Cornell had a rough competition this year in michigan)

I also feel that the competition has been getting tighter at the top with more and more teams showing up with a car that can finish with respectable times in each event. Just wait until some of the German and Austrian teams start coming over, you wouldn't believe the cars that rookie and other young teams showed up with this year at hockenheim, it was amazing. It may surprise you but the TUG car this year is only their third car.

Perhaps SAE is allowing these teams to register early just to reward them for doing such a good job in the prior year. I may be wrong though.

Registration is first come, first serve. You are assigned a number based on when you click that registration button.

Top finishers get a reserved number as recognition of their hard work. Teams with reserved numbers get early registration so that if one of them should decided not to attend the competition, their number is free for use in general registration. I'll acknowledge that SAE could simply permanently reserve the number whether the finishing team decides to show to the competition or not. i.e. If Texas A&M decided not to go to FSAE West, there would be no Car #1 at FSAE West.

Anyway, after some phone tag, the University of Washington is registered for Formula SAE West as car #4....my regards to UMR for the trophy, btw.