The field

The URC field is small, stable and selected. Across the five score sheets from 2022 to 2026 there are 187 team-year rows from 68 teams: 162 rows carry finals scores and 25 carry a review score with no finals result. Registration rose from 99 teams in 2022 to 116 in 2026, while the finals field stayed at 36 to 38 rows. That gap, about one invited team for every three registrations, is the first statistic that matters to a new team.

Registration and the finals field

Registration counts come from the official team lists for each year S-URC22-TEAMS S-URC26-TEAMS; the row counts come from the official score sheets S-URC22-SCORES S-URC23-SCORES S-URC24-SCORES S-URC25-SCORES S-URC26-SCORES. The 2023 sheet is the check on what a row means: URC2023 featured exactly 37 finalists and the 2023 sheet has exactly 37 rows S-URC23-NEWS.

Countries

The finals draw from about ten countries a year, not from the registered field. Fifteen country labels appear across the five sheets, including one multi-country entry, and the largest single bloc is the United States.

The interactive view counts finals team-years by country, so it measures depth rather than distinct labels: the United States contributes 70 of the 162 team-years, Poland 16 and Canada 17.

The depth is American, but the top is not. The United States supplies 21 of 62 scoring teams and 10 of the 15 podium finishes, yet its mean total of 264.4 is below Poland’s 266.3 and only just above Bangladesh’s 262.4 S-URC-RESULTS. Australia is a one-team country whose team is elite: Monash has five finals, three podiums and the highest per-team mean in the data at 343.1.

Tiers and profiles

The census tiers every team from official scores and a documentation check, never from reputation: Tier A for a podium or a top-six average or an exceptionally documented top-six team, Tier B for a consistent top-20 record or a strong single year or a documented programme with finals history, Tier C for the remainder S-CENSUS.

The 17 Tier C teams without a profile are those that publish almost nothing; the census lists them and the absence is itself the finding. Tier A is Missouri S&T, West Virginia, Michigan, AGH, Monash, BYU, UIU and Northeastern.

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