here are the numbers from today and this time last year based on the second day for unsold doe tags. Thefigures indicate the number oflicenses still available and the parenthesied numbers are the total that are/were to be sold for that year.

8-23-2005 8-29-2006
Tuesday Tuesday
1A, 12,205 (40,000); 1A, 8,959 (42,000);
1B, CLOSED (27,000); 1B, CLOSED (30,000);
2A, 32,260 (55,000); 2A, 30,535 (55,000);
2B, 60,794 (68,000); 2B, 61,295 (68,000);
2C, 12,647 (53,000); 2C, 6,074 (49,000);
2D; 11,205 (56,000); 2D, 3,711 (56,000);
2E, CLOSED (21,000); 2E, CLOSED (21,000);
2F, CLOSED (30,000); 2F, CLOSED (28,000);
2G, CLOSED (29,000); 2G, CLOSED (19,000);
3A, CLOSED (27,000); 3A, 2,800 (29,000);
3B, 10,735 (41,000); 3B, 9,759 (43,000);
3C, CLOSED (32,000); 3C, CLOSED (27,000);
3D, 10,510 (38,000); 3D, 6,691 (38,000);
4A, 7,167 (35,000); 4A, 1,227 (29,000);
4B, 6,423 (35,000); 4B, 2,337 (31,000);
4C, 3,960 (39,000); 4C, 2,242 (39,000);
4D, CLOSED (40,000); 4D, CLOSED (40,000);
4E, 14,465 (38,000); 4E, 14,620 (38,000);
5A, 17,292 (28,000); 5A, 14,037 (25,000);
5B, 31,779 (56,000); 5B, 24,881 (53,000);
5C, 55,428 (71,000); 5C, 54,359 (79,000);
5D, 19,300 (20,000). 5D, 18,699 (20,000).


I'm not going to make a percentage for each number. I'm sure one of our bean counters on this board will do that. But the license sales dont look much different overall. Using this "rough snapshot", demand is up a bit in 1A,2A,2D,3B,3D,4C,AND 5C. Demand is about equal in 1B,2E,3C,4A,4B,4D,4E,and 5A Demand is down in 2B,2C,5B AND 5D

This isnt a perfect evaluation because some WMU's changed their allocations up or down and the assessments above were adjusted to be based on whats sold rather than whats left. In 2G, the allocation is way down and it sold out early both years so say what you like about it. I'd guess that some of the demand from 2Gthem got spread out into adjacent WMU's. 2D for example is much closer to being sold out at this time as opposed to last year. 2F sold out much quicker in the first week.

License demandseems to berunning just about the wayNeville said in some other threads.I guess the USP will have to find another way to spin things.