IRI Rules and Team Invitation List

[Chris Fultz]

Below are 78 teams invited to the 2013 IRI.
Based on history, we expect the field to be 68 - 72 teams.

Invitations will be sent later tonight or tomorrow.
Please respond to the invitation YES or NO by May 31.

You will get an invoice. Teams must be paid in full by June 30.

RULE CHANGES FOR IRI:

No rule changes to the game and how it is played and scored.

Draft order 1-8, 1-8, 8-1.
Alliances select their backup and can mix each match.
Lower seeded alliance must declare robots first.

FIRST tiebreaker rules EXCEPT for the finals, where ties will be replayed.

+5 pound weight allowance. All other first robot rules apply. Honor system.


Invitation List - by Team Number

1 11 MORT
2 16 Bomb Squad
3 20 The Rocketeers
4 27 Team RUSH
5 33 Killer Bees
6 45 TechnoKats Robotics Team
7 48 Delphi E.L.I.T.E.
8 51 Wings of Fire
9 67 The HOT Team
10 68 Truck Town Thunder
11 71 Team Hammond
12 111 Wildstang
13 116 Epsilon Delta
14 118 Robonauts
15 125 NUTRONS
16 141 WO-BOT
17 148 Robotwranglers
18 195 Cyber Knights
19 217 ThunderChickens
20 234 Cyber Blue
21 245 Adambots
22 254 The Cheesy Poofs
23 303 TEST team
24 359 Hawaiian Kids
25 399 Eagle Robotics
26 447 Team Roboto
27 461 Westside Boiler Invasion
28 469 Las Guerrillas
29 624 CRyptonite
30 696 Circuit Breakers
31 706 CYBERHAWKS
32 829 Digital Goats
33 836 RoboBees
34 862 Lightning Robotics
35 868 TechHOUNDS
36 967 Iron Lions
37 987 HIGHROLLERS
38 1024 Kil-A-Bytes
39 1114 Simbotics
40 1241 THEORY6
41 1310 RUNNYMEDE ROBOTICS
42 1334 Red Devels
43 1477 Texas Torque
44 1503 Spartonics
45 1538 The Holy Cows
46 1592 Bionic Tigers
47 1625 Winnovation
48 1640 Sab-BOT-age
49 1676 The Pascack PI-oneers
50 1732 Hilltoppers
51 1741 Red Alert Robotics
52 1806 S.W.A.T.
53 1902 Exploding Bacon
54 2054 Tech Vikes
55 2056 OP Robotics
56 2062 C.O.R.E
57 2175 The Fighing Calculators
58 2252 The Mavericks
59 2337 EngiNERDS
60 2338 Gear It Forward
61 2451 PWNAGE
62 2468 Team Appreciate
63 2474 Excel
64 2590 Nemesis
65 2648 Infinite Loop
66 2826 Wave Robotics
67 3467 The Windham Windup
68 3476 Code Orange
69 3539 Byting Bulldogs
70 3641 The Flying Toasters
71 3847 Spectrum
72 3928 Team Neutrino
73 3947 The Last Crusaders
74 3990 Tech for Kids
75 4039 MakeShift Robotics
76 4265 Wildbots
77 4334 Alberta Tech Alliance (ATA)
78 4814 United Robotics of London

Thank you to all who applied. Very tough choices and a lot of very good teams.

[Koko Ed]

Below are 78 teams invited to the 2013 IRI.
Based on history, we expect the field to be 68 - 72 teams.

Invitations will be sent later tonight or tomorrow.
Please respond to the invitation YES or NO by May 31.

You will get an invoice. Teams must be paid in full by June 30.

RULE CHANGES FOR IRI:

No rule changes to the game and how it is played and scored.

Draft order 1-8, 1-8, 8-1.
Alliances select their backup and can mix each match.
Lower seeded alliance must declare robots first.

FIRST tiebreaker rules EXCEPT for the finals, where ties will be replayed.

+5 pound weight allowance. All other first robot rules apply. Honor system.


Invitation List - by Team Number

1 11 MORT
2 16 Bomb Squad
3 20 The Rocketeers
4 27 Team RUSH
5 33 Killer Bees
6 45 TechnoKats Robotics Team
7 48 Delphi E.L.I.T.E.
8 51 Wings of Fire
9 67 The HOT Team
10 68 Truck Town Thunder
11 71 Team Hammond
12 111 Wildstang
13 116 Epsilon Delta
14 118 Robonauts
15 125 NUTRONS
16 141 WO-BOT
17 148 Robotwranglers
18 195 Cyber Knights
19 217 ThunderChickens
20 234 Cyber Blue
21 245 Adambots
22 254 The Cheesy Poofs
23 303 TEST team
24 359 Hawaiian Kids
25 399 Eagle Robotics
26 447 Team Roboto
27 461 Westside Boiler Invasion
28 469 Las Guerrillas
29 624 CRyptonite
30 696 Circuit Breakers
31 706 CYBERHAWKS
32 829 Digital Goats
33 836 RoboBees
34 862 Lightning Robotics
35 868 TechHOUNDS
36 967 Iron Lions
37 987 HIGHROLLERS
38 1024 Kil-A-Bytes
39 1114 Simbotics
40 1241 THEORY6
41 1310 RUNNYMEDE ROBOTICS
42 1334 Red Devels
43 1477 Texas Torque
44 1503 Spartonics
45 1538 The Holy Cows
46 1592 Bionic Tigers
47 1625 Winnovation
48 1640 Sab-BOT-age
49 1676 The Pascack PI-oneers
50 1732 Hilltoppers
51 1741 Red Alert Robotics
52 1806 S.W.A.T.
53 1902 Exploding Bacon
54 2054 Tech Vikes
55 2056 OP Robotics
56 2062 C.O.R.E
57 2175 The Fighing Calculators
58 2252 The Mavericks
59 2337 EngiNERDS
60 2338 Gear It Forward
61 2451 PWNAGE
62 2468 Team Appreciate
63 2474 Excel
64 2590 Nemesis
65 2648 Infinite Loop
66 2826 Wave Robotics
67 3467 The Windham Windup
68 3476 Code Orange
69 3539 Byting Bulldogs
70 3641 The Flying Toasters
71 3847 Spectrum
72 3928 Team Neutrino
73 3947 The Last Crusaders
74 3990 Tech for Kids
75 4039 MakeShift Robotics
76 4265 Wildbots
77 4334 Alberta Tech Alliance (ATA)
78 4814 United Robotics of London

Thank you to all who applied. Very tough choices and a lot of very good teams.
Man, that's alot of teams to herd.

[Jay O'Donnell]

I can't wait to see these teams duke it out. Excellent choices as usual! Glad to see no changes to an already fantastic game.

[sanddrag]

We've certainly put in a lot of hard work to get here, and after over 8000 man-hours this season and seeing the competition on the invite list, it feels like our work has just begun!

On behalf of all of Team 696, I would like to extend a big thank you to the IRI planning committee for the invitation. We are really looking forward to the event!

Also, I'm curious if there is any shipping deal worked out as in years past, or if it is up to each team.

[peirvine]

Team 2175 is honored to be invited!! We are planning (as of now) to attend!

[Jacob.B]

Can anyone explain to me why 1986 isn't going to IRI? :confused:

[Lydia Yeckley]

I guess 2252 will see everyone there!

[mdiradoorian]

Wow, I did not expect this at all. I guess team 696 will be seeing everyone there. What a great way to graduate from FIRST.

[Jay O'Donnell]

Can anyone explain to me why 1986 isn't going to IRI? :confused:

I believe they didn't apply. It's unfortunate, they were one of my favorite robots this year.

[Abhishek R]

Lower seeded alliance must declare robots first.

What does this mean?

[George A.]

What does this mean?

Since IRI allows you to have 4 robots on your alliance you can pick and choose which 3 will take the field in any given match (you could rotate in or use the same 3 for the entire elim tournament.) The lower seed (ie in the 1v8 match seed 8) would have to say which 3 robots are going on the field so that way the 1 seed could make adjustments to their lineup if necessary.

[Bill W.]

On behalf of CRyptonite Team 624, I would like to thank the IRI staff for accepting us! We are super excited to attend, and we hope to see all you great robots there!

[EricH]

What does this mean?
Remember that you can swap out robots in any match in eliminations. All that rule says is that whoever is the lower seed (the blue alliance in QFs) has to declare which 3 of their 4 robots are taking the field before the higher seed does so.


On another note: When is the last time that IRI did NOT change the FRC ruleset, other than the elims alliances? Seems like it's been tradition to change SOMETHING every year, can't go against tradition!

[Jilani]

Thank You so much! ;D

We will make all the rookies of the world proud!

edit: Also slight correction we are the *United Robotics Team of London

[JB987]

What does this mean?

Beat me to it...

I believe it means that if an alliance is going to sub in with a back up bot, the lower seeded alliance must be first to reveal that they are going to use their back up...gives higher seed a chance to counter with their own substitution if they feel the need to adjust for the other's choice.

[Arnav]

I'm already so pumped, I can't wait! This is going to be interesting!

[1503sAsian]

Woah, woah, woah, hold up.. no coop pyramid?! What is this non-sense?! D:

[1986titans]

Can anyone explain to me why 1986 isn't going to IRI? :confused:

As far as I know, 1986 has never participated in any competition over summer (unless you really want to count the Missouri State Fair as a formal competition).

[AllenGregoryIV]

Spectrum is honored to get an invitation to IRI this year. Thank you to the entire selection committee, I know this must be a very hard job. It's going to be so much fun to play with all these great teams.

[Alpha Beta]

Can anyone explain to me why 1986 isn't going to IRI? :confused:

Just a bad weekend for us logistically. It looks like a great list of teams. We'll be cheering on 1806 as they represent the KC area.

[Woolly]

Well, this made my night.
Now it's time to plan to execute all those strategies we didn't get a chance to at Worlds.

[SeanKwobot141]

Awesome!!!!! My First IRI I can't wait! WO-BOT Team 141 will see you guys there!:D

[Woolly]

Just a bad weekend for us logistically. It looks like a great list of teams. We'll be cheering on 1806 as they represent the KC area.

Maybe we could "borrow" your robot and use it interchangeably with ours... :rolleyes:

But seriously, it's too bad you guys can't go, but we'll try to do KC proud!

[cmrnpizzo14]

610 did not apply either, correct? It' a shame if they didn't, I would have loved to see what they could do with an extra five pounds. 5/7 disk auto? >10pt climb?

[lynca]

Congrats to the teams who made IRI for the 1st time in their history !

I'm happy to see 3847 (Spectrum) & 2468 (Appreciate) got an invite !

[AllenGregoryIV]

Congrats to the teams who made IRI for the 1st time in their history !

I'm happy to see 3847 (Spectrum) & 2468 (Appreciate) got an invite !

Thanks Andy

[waialua359]

Well, we plan to bring a whole lot more items for the silent auction this year for sure.:D

[Chris Fultz]

you are correct on the robot placement.

Since teams can select which 3 of 4 play during the eliminations, we wanted to specify who has to place first so that it doesn't take too long for teams to decide and get onto the field.

[Coach Norm]

Congrats to the teams who made IRI for the 1st time in their history !

I'm happy to see 3847 (Spectrum) & 2468 (Appreciate) got an invite !
Thanks IRI - we are so excited about this opportunity.

Andy, Thanks so much for the congrats. You have indirectly influenced us in so many ways.

Wow, what a great year.

Norman

[Hallry]

Team 1676 is excited to be invited to IRI for the 2nd year in a row! Now, we just have to figure out how to get there...:yikes:

[Jetweb]

Pretty bummed we didn't make the cut, there's always next year.

1902 and 1592 will do Florida proud. With everything 1592 has been through this year I'm ecstatic that they get to extend there season and show off how awesome there robot is.

[Kernaghan]

Wow...

So honored to get invited, I already can't wait!

[rachelholladay]

Does anyone know if there is going to be a livestream webcast? (Cause my team is totally planning on having a webcast party to watch and cheer on our friends)

[Abhishek R]

Hmm, WiredCats didn't apply/accepted...O_O

[runneals]

Wow, I did not expect this at all. I guess team 696 will be seeing everyone there. What a great way to graduate from FIRST.

Exactly my thoughts to re the graduation gift for my first and last year of being on the team :) Thanks IRI Planning Team and all the sponsors who make IRI possible! Team Neutrino is tentatively planning on attending :)

[Chris Fultz]

Does anyone know if there is going to be a livestream webcast? (Cause my team is totally planning on having a webcast party to watch and cheer on our friends)

Yes, there will be a webcast.

[KrazyCarl92]

Wow, what an honor to be invited to IRI! So excited for our first one!
Thank you to the IRI Planning committee to making this possible, hope to see you in July!

[Calvin Hartley]

I can't help but notice that over 20% of these are Michigan teams. I can't wait to watch the webcast! Maybe I'll have to organize a webcast party for my team.

[Brandon Holley]

125 is deeply honored to again be invited to IRI. We look forward to playing with so many great teams and seeing so many of our friends from around the continent.

-Brando

[Clinton Bolinger]

Chris,

If the IRI planning committee is interested, I would be more then happy to bring down my equipment to Stream and Archive all of the matches for IRI.

Let me know.

-Clinton-

ps. We can easily upload the content to an IRI YouTube Channel and stream to an IRI Twitch.tv channel.

More Information on what I use: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1243364&postcount=9

[qzrrbz]

Does anyone know if there is going to be a livestream webcast? (Cause my team is totally planning on having a webcast party to watch and cheer on our friends)

With 2337 there, one would certainly hope so, and it will be glorious! :)

[JB987]

Anyone out there have tips for reasonable cost crate shipping to the event from the far West? And Chris, is there any chance for short term drayage prior/after the event?

[Wetzel]

So who is going to go through and count the regional wins and awards this group of teams accumulated this year?

[Akash Rastogi]

Chris,

If the IRI planning committee is interested, I would be more then happy to bring down my equipment to Stream and Archive all of the matches for IRI.

Let me know.

-Clinton-

ps. We can easily upload the content to an IRI YouTube Channel and stream to an IRI Twitch.tv channel.

More Information on what I use: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1243364&postcount=9

This would be glorious.

[AdamHeard]

Anyone out there have tips for reasonable cost crate shipping to the event from the far West? And Chris, is there any chance for short term drayage prior/after the event?

Talk to Andy, he has always been helpful with options/advice for us.

[sanddrag]

Anyone out there have tips for reasonable cost crate shipping to the event from the far West? And Chris, is there any chance for short term drayage prior/after the event?We may be driving our trailer out, and it may not be out of the question to drive up through Las Vegas. There may be a chance we could take it for a portion of the fuel cost, which would amount to $500-$900 depending on if we get another team onboard and how the gas mileage turns out. Of course this is all still up in the air and pending several details on our end. If we can ship everything for less than $500 round trip we may not take the trailer.

[Pauline Tasci]

This team list is FULL of amazing teams, I am surprisingly really happy with the list of invited teams, can't wait!

[Boe]

So who is going to go through and count the regional wins and awards this group of teams accumulated this year?

I stated this spreadsheet if everyone would fill in the stuff they won itd be really cool to see some of the data out of all the teams attending

put in the number of times you won each award and put a zero if you didnt win that award, all the totals are at the bottom

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AikH-P90L_XGdGd1Z3JhcUphenNwS0NPWEFFYVJ2Nmc#gid=0

[BrendanB]

I stated this spreadsheet if everyone would fill in the stuff the won itd be really cool to see some of the data out of all the teams attending

put in the number of times you won each award and put a zero if you didnt win that award, all the totals are at the bottom

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AikH-P90L_XGdGd1Z3JhcUphenNwS0NPWEFFYVJ2Nmc#gid=0

It says I need permission to access it.

[Boe]

It says I need permission to access it.

fixed hopefully

[KrazyCarl92]

fixed hopefully

Permission to view, but not edit.

[Boe]

Permission to view, but not edit.

done also just put stuff from this year

[waialua359]

The old shipping support via BAX Global is no more since last year.
They had lots of internal changes and closed down certain divisions once they became DB Schenker.
Last year we shipped with the support of AM via their Fedex account which offered us better rates.

I would suggest sending them an email if you need shipping support. Its great that AM and the IRI team handles all of the drayage stuff once you ship to and from them.

[BenB]

So who is going to go through and count the regional wins and awards this group of teams accumulated this year?

Here is some data I summarized from our 2013 Championship Scouting Database (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116175)

3/3 MSC champions
2/3 MAR champions
17 District champions
47 Regional champions

The following results are from Districts, Regionals and MAR/MSC

41 Finalists
48 Semi Finalists
34 Quarter Finalists
6 Did not make eliminations

The following 2013 World Championship result data comes from Jim Zondag's FIRST Championship History Results (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=85713)

2/3 World Champions (missing 610)
2/3 World Finalists (missing 1519)
5/6 World Semi-Finalists (missing 1678)
6/12 Division Finalists
16/24 Division Semi-Finalists
23/48 Division Quarter Finalists
12 teams did not make World Championship Eliminations
12 teams did not attend World Championships

Other awards data from our scouting database

21 Delphi Engineering Excellence Award
19 Motorola Quality Award
19 Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award
18 GM Industrial Design Award
15 FIRST Dean's List Finalist Award
12 KPC&B Entrepreneurship Award
11 Engineering Inspiration Award
8 Judges' Award
7 District Chairman's Award
7 Regional Chairman's Award
7 UL Industrial Safety Award
7 Woodie Flowers Finalist Award
6 District Engineering Inspiration Award
5 J&J Gracious Professionalism Award
4 Imagery Award in Honor of Jack Kamen
4 Xerox Creativity Award
2 Chrysler Team Spirit Award
2 State Championship Chairman's Award
1 MAR Engineering Inspiration Award
1 Rookie All Star Award

[Jack_poldon]

1310 is honored to be invited to IRI! This is a great way to finish off a truly unprecedented season. Good luck and see you at the competition!

[BASE]

Good luck and see you at the competition!

Well said.

[PayneTrain]

Definitely some obviously strong competitors invited along with a light peppering of interesting decisions. Looks like it's going to be fun; too bad I'll be in Cincinnati all week on business (and baseball... GO REDS!)

[Nemo]

It looks like 967 will be able to send a group - I'm working on the logistics and things look good so far. We are very grateful to be invited - the list of teams is quite impressive!

If I was to pick my dream list of 64 teams for an Ultimate Ascent tournament, there would be a lot of overlap between that list and the actual IRI invite list.

[Travis Hoffman]

Team 48 is thankful for the opportunity to compete at IRI once again and gratefully accepts the invitation (waiting to receive the official invite email). :)

[jdunston94]

Chris,

If the IRI planning committee is interested, I would be more then happy to bring down my equipment to Stream and Archive all of the matches for IRI.

Let me know.

-Clinton-

ps. We can easily upload the content to an IRI YouTube Channel and stream to an IRI Twitch.tv channel.

More Information on what I use: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1243364&postcount=9

YES! that would be awesome!

[Jim Zondag]

It is going to be great as always....best event on Earth.
Numbers don't lie :)

http://i.imgur.com/7BDB1Me.jpg

Curves are peak OPR per team when entering each event.

[Richard Wallace]

...best event on Earth. Numbers don't lie :)Interesting data, Jim. As I suspected, Archimedes was the deepest field of 2013 to date, and MSC the deepest pre-CMP field -- but as the numbers speak loudly, neither holds a candle to the IRI. The cyclers will be so fast and the sweepers so clean, that I expect we'll see a few matches with the clock ticking down and NOTHING left to shoot!

[Chris Fultz]

We are having some database issues with getting the formal invites sent out.
We are working on it, but they have not been sent yet.

[IKE]

So, the median for top OPR for MAR was around 35, and the average qual score was about 106 (roughly 3x the median which makes a lot of sense)
The median of MSC OPRs was about 45 and the average score was about 130 (again about 3X the median which makes sense).

The Median for IRI appears to be about 60.... If it follows the same trend, we could see average scores of 180 points... This will get very very interesting....

[Craig Roys]

So, the median for top OPR for MAR was around 35, and the average qual score was about 106 (roughly 3x the median which makes a lot of sense)
The median of MSC OPRs was about 45 and the average score was about 130 (again about 3X the median which makes sense).

The Median for IRI appears to be about 60.... If it follows the same trend, we could see average scores of 180 points... This will get very very interesting....

It's going to be crazy...I'm bummed that we had too many conflicts this year to try and attend. I'm still trying to see if I can make the trip down on my own as I don't want to miss this.

[BrendanB]

So, the median for top OPR for MAR was around 35, and the average qual score was about 106 (roughly 3x the median which makes a lot of sense)
The median of MSC OPRs was about 45 and the average score was about 130 (again about 3X the median which makes sense).

The Median for IRI appears to be about 60.... If it follows the same trend, we could see average scores of 180 points... This will get very very interesting....

Should be an amazing event! Team 3467 is extremely excited to be representing New Hampshire and this is our team's first IRI trip! After a solid weekend at Battlecry our team is itching to get back on the field after one of our best performances of the year!

[Woolly]

Unfortunately it looks like team 1806 will not be able to attend. Our head mentor will be unavailable during the event, and our school district is unwilling to allow us to go out of state without him.

Oh well, guess there's always the livestream.

[Akash Rastogi]

What's the world rank order of all teams invited?

[Nemo]

World rank of invited teams:


Team WorldRank
2056 1
1114 2
987 3
469 4
118 5
868 7
1538 9
33 10
254 12
67 13
20 14
1806 15
1310 17
2590 18
4265 19
359 20
2054 23
3476 25
245 27
148 28
862 29
111 31
4039 32
11 35
624 36
1676 37
3539 40
195 45
125 50
1334 53
3467 56
2648 58
1477 60
967 62
2252 69
1741 75
4334 76
3990 80
447 86
3928 88
1241 90
1732 92
2826 94
2474 95
68 97
234 111
27 112
3641 116
303 118
1503 126
1902 137
71 139
51 140
706 157
2175 171
2338 180
836 182
829 191
2468 199
1625 201
1640 216
16 226
3947 263
141 289
48 298
696 318
217 330
399 331
116 360
1592 398
3847 450
2337 466
2062 558
2451 565
1024 592
4814 654
461 973
45 1268

[hunterteam3476]

Below are 78 teams invited to the 2013 IRI.
Based on history, we expect the field to be 68 - 72 teams.

Invitations will be sent later tonight or tomorrow.
Please respond to the invitation YES or NO by May 31.

You will get an invoice. Teams must be paid in full by June 30.

RULE CHANGES FOR IRI:

No rule changes to the game and how it is played and scored.

Draft order 1-8, 1-8, 8-1.
Alliances select their backup and can mix each match.
Lower seeded alliance must declare robots first.

FIRST tiebreaker rules EXCEPT for the finals, where ties will be replayed.

+5 pound weight allowance. All other first robot rules apply. Honor system.


Invitation List - by Team Number

1 11 MORT
2 16 Bomb Squad
3 20 The Rocketeers
4 27 Team RUSH
5 33 Killer Bees
6 45 TechnoKats Robotics Team
7 48 Delphi E.L.I.T.E.
8 51 Wings of Fire
9 67 The HOT Team
10 68 Truck Town Thunder
11 71 Team Hammond
12 111 Wildstang
13 116 Epsilon Delta
14 118 Robonauts
15 125 NUTRONS
16 141 WO-BOT
17 148 Robotwranglers
18 195 Cyber Knights
19 217 ThunderChickens
20 234 Cyber Blue
21 245 Adambots
22 254 The Cheesy Poofs
23 303 TEST team
24 359 Hawaiian Kids
25 399 Eagle Robotics
26 447 Team Roboto
27 461 Westside Boiler Invasion
28 469 Las Guerrillas
29 624 CRyptonite
30 696 Circuit Breakers
31 706 CYBERHAWKS
32 829 Digital Goats
33 836 RoboBees
34 862 Lightning Robotics
35 868 TechHOUNDS
36 967 Iron Lions
37 987 HIGHROLLERS
38 1024 Kil-A-Bytes
39 1114 Simbotics
40 1241 THEORY6
41 1310 RUNNYMEDE ROBOTICS
42 1334 Red Devels
43 1477 Texas Torque
44 1503 Spartonics
45 1538 The Holy Cows
46 1592 Bionic Tigers
47 1625 Winnovation
48 1640 Sab-BOT-age
49 1676 The Pascack PI-oneers
50 1732 Hilltoppers
51 1741 Red Alert Robotics
52 1806 S.W.A.T.
53 1902 Exploding Bacon
54 2054 Tech Vikes
55 2056 OP Robotics
56 2062 C.O.R.E
57 2175 The Fighing Calculators
58 2252 The Mavericks
59 2337 EngiNERDS
60 2338 Gear It Forward
61 2451 PWNAGE
62 2468 Team Appreciate
63 2474 Excel
64 2590 Nemesis
65 2648 Infinite Loop
66 2826 Wave Robotics
67 3467 The Windham Windup
68 3476 Code Orange
69 3539 Byting Bulldogs
70 3641 The Flying Toasters
71 3847 Spectrum
72 3928 Team Neutrino
73 3947 The Last Crusaders
74 3990 Tech for Kids
75 4039 MakeShift Robotics
76 4265 Wildbots
77 4334 Alberta Tech Alliance (ATA)
78 4814 United Robotics of London

Thank you to all who applied. Very tough choices and a lot of very good teams.

There are a lot of great teams on this list, Can't wait to see old friends and make new one.

[Alpha Beta]

We'll be cheering on 1806 as they represent the KC area.

Unfortunately it looks like team 1806 will not be able to attend.

:( Well thankfully I have no shortage of other teams to cheer for. Particularly interested in how 624 performs after getting upset at their 3 regionals. Most of their fates were intertwined with 1477, but they didn't have the resources for a 4th regional.

[lemiant]

On a cursory look it seems that there are significantly fewer full court shooters here than on Galileo. Phew :o
Anybody have a list of who here is a full court?

[BrendanB]

There are a lot of great teams on this list, Can't wait to see old friends and make new one.

This is also going to get extremely confusing with both us (3467) and you guys (3476) attending the event! ;)

[Kevin Leonard]

On a cursory look it seems that there are significantly fewer full court shooters here than on Galileo. Phew :o
Anybody have a list of who here is a full court?

Just from a quick look, you have 67, 148, 195, 217, 303, (1806 :( ), 2468, and you guys in terms of dedicated full court shooters. However if you add in teams that have full court shots, you of course add in 469, 987, 1310, and many other high-level teams.
It'll be interesting to see what role full-court shooters take at IRI.

[Jay O'Donnell]

Has the draft always been 1-8, 1-8, 8-1? I was under the impression that it was 1-8, 8-1, 1-8

[dodar]

Has the draft always been 1-8, 1-8, 8-1? I was under the impression that it was 1-8, 8-1, 1-8

IRI has always done it 1-8, 1-8, 8-1. Normally it's 1-8 then 8-1.

[Richard Wallace]

Has the draft always been 1-8, 1-8, 8-1? I was under the impression that it was 1-8, 8-1, 1-8The serpentine draft is not thought of highly by many IRI-caliber teams. :rolleyes:

Paul, Karthik, and several others have posted extensively on this topic.

[Gregor]

The serpentine draft is not thought of highly by many IRI-caliber teams. :rolleyes:

Paul, Karthik, and several others have posted extensively on this topic.

Additionally with the depth of IRI, being the 8th seed could be better than the first seed, getting picks 8 and 9 back to back. Both of these robots are guaranteed to be fantastic. By the time you get to pick 16 the talent will drop off a little bit (but not much). The first seed needs the ability to form the best alliance, and serpentine doesn't work for IRI in that regard.

[Karthik]

Does anyone know who's MCing IRI this year? Unfortunately, I heard Paul wasn't asked back. :(

[tim-tim]

I heard it was some guy named Karthik...

[Chris Fultz]

REMINDER - ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION IS DUE TOMORROW (31 MAY).

We stil need a confirmation (Yes or No) from some teams.

[runneals]

I'm working on finding housing. I was wondering when you guys are going to release a draft schedule soonish, or can I safely assume it's basically gonna be the same schedule (Thursday load-in and Friday & Saturday Robot Rounds & Stuff) as last year?

[DanielCH]

It appears teams geographically near to the tournament were given preference over other teams -- does anyone know why this is?

[dodar]

It appears teams geographically near to the tournament were given preference over other teams -- does anyone know why this is?

Indiana teams get preferential treatment because IRI is in/from Indiana, but past that really no one gets preferential treatment; except the previous year's winners because they get an auto-invite.

[DanielCH]

Team 295 was passed over in the application process, team 2451 and team 706 were not. Both are relatively geographically near to IRI (but not in IN), and while I'm sure they're both absolutely fantastic teams, objectively we did have a bit of a better season than them (IMHO).

Those were just two examples that caught my eye, I really don't want to seem like I'm calling them out. Again, I'm sure they're both really great teams.

On a different note, is there any reason that IN teams are given preference? For an event as prestigious and selective as IRI, that doesn't really make sense to me.

[Koko Ed]

Team 295 was passed over in the application process, team 2451 and team 706 were not. Both are relatively geographically near to IRI (but not in IN), and while I'm sure they're both absolutely fantastic teams, objectively we did have a bit of a better season than them (IMHO).

Those were just two examples that caught my eye, I really don't want to seem like I'm calling them out. Again, I'm sure they're both really great teams.

On a different note, is there any reason that IN teams are given preference? For an event as prestigious and selective as IRI, that doesn't really make sense to me.

Because it's the Indiana Robotics Invitation and they would like Indiana teams there for the most part.
If you have issues with the selection process you should probably contact Chris Fultz about it.

[Foster]

Because it's the Indiana Robotics Invitation and they would like Indiana teams there for the most part.

It's their party, they can invite who they want. :rolleyes: I remember our first year of being invited, the invite was almost a good as actually going. If I was an Indiana team that didn't go to St. Louis, a chance to face the Einstein teams would be very, very cool.

Has the draft always been 1-8, 1-8, 8-1? I was under the impression that it was 1-8, 8-1, 1-8

The years that I've gone to IRI and Paul C has been the MC for the draft, he's done a great presentation on why the serpentine draft is the greatest travesty of all time. VEX has learned from that, we do the selection "correctly".

[Lil' Lavery]

So, the median for top OPR for MAR was around 35, and the average qual score was about 106 (roughly 3x the median which makes a lot of sense)
The median of MSC OPRs was about 45 and the average score was about 130 (again about 3X the median which makes sense).

The Median for IRI appears to be about 60.... If it follows the same trend, we could see average scores of 180 points... This will get very very interesting....
I would be highly skeptical of that, even ignoring my skepticism of OPR as a robot metric. Even if all teams were capable of repeating (or building on) their peak performance, once we hit this level of competition their are overlaps in the points scored between robots. Namely autonomous discs (only one 7-disc scorer per alliance), climbing points (only one "inside" climber per alliance), and potentially even the 45-disc limit (especially when FCS are involved).

I'd be highly skeptical of an average score that high for that reason alone, but add in fact that some teams will have new drivers/key personnel, many machines are worked past their limit and will suffer issues, and general regression towards the mean (given it was peak performance that was being used) and I think it's almost certain we see lower average scores than 180.

[Alan Anderson]

Indiana teams get preferential treatment because IRI is in/from Indiana,...

There used to be a significant "Indiana team" bonus when trying to determine the invitees. With the advent of C.A.G.E., that no longer needs to be a large part of the decision.

Team 295 was passed over in the application process, team 2451 and team 706 were not...

Nobody who applied was "passed over". Everyone was run through the same formula to find the teams to be invited. Not all of that formula is performance-based, by the way. There's a bit of "what special quality does this team bring to IRI?" involved.

On a different note, is there any reason that IN teams are given preference? For an event as prestigious and selective as IRI, that doesn't really make sense to me.

IRI has its roots as a local off-season for nearby teams to have fun at. For a long time, it was the only chance for many Indiana teams to attend a summer competition. It wasn't always a "best of the best" event.

It's their party, they can invite who they want. :rolleyes:....

Alas, that isn't true. There isn't room for everyone who is wanted, so there has to be a cutoff somewhere.

[Jay O'Donnell]

Is it possible to see who responded yes or no to attending since we are passed may 31st? Just curious.

[AdamHeard]

Team 295 was passed over in the application process, team 2451 and team 706 were not. Both are relatively geographically near to IRI (but not in IN), and while I'm sure they're both absolutely fantastic teams, objectively we did have a bit of a better season than them (IMHO).

Those were just two examples that caught my eye, I really don't want to seem like I'm calling them out. Again, I'm sure they're both really great teams.

On a different note, is there any reason that IN teams are given preference? For an event as prestigious and selective as IRI, that doesn't really make sense to me.

2451 and 706 were both first round picks of regional Finalist. Both were solid.

[Chris Fultz]

We won't disclose our process.

Current season performance is a big part of it. But a robot that is a 1st or 2nd pick could be "ranked" higher than a robot that was a 15th or 16th pick that won a regional. We select teams and robots, not alliances.

Indiana teams have a very limited preference, and it gets smaller every year.

We will be posting in the next day or so. Right now we are over 68 confirmed and a few are still working on school board approval - but are staying on contact with us.

[Sir Legit]

I guess 2252 will see everyone there!

I had the honor of competing with you guys at Buckeye. You all definitely earned your spot!

[Dragonking]

when will the official list be posted?

[Chris Fultz]

Here is the final list of teams who have accepted the IRI invitation for 2013.
Teams have until June 30 to finalize payments and then we will publish the "final" listing soon after that.

This looks to be an excellent field for competition!

1 11 MORT
2 16 Bomb Squad
3 20 The Rocketeers
4 27 Team RUSH
5 33 Killer Bees
6 45 TechnoKats Robotics Team
7 48 Delphi E.L.I.T.E.
8 51 Wings of Fire
9 67 The HOT Team
10 68 Truck Town Thunder
11 71 Team Hammond
12 111 Wildstang
13 116 Epsilon Delta
14 118 Robonauts
15 125 NUTRONS
16 141 WO-BOT
17 148 Robotwranglers
18 195 Cyber Knights
19 217 ThunderChickens
20 234 Cyber Blue
21 245 Adambots
22 303 TEST team
23 359 Hawaiian Kids
24 447 Team Roboto
25 461 Westside Boiler Invasion
26 469 Las Guerrillas
27 624 CRyptonite
28 696 Circuit Breakers
29 706 CYBERHAWKS
30 829 Digital Goats
31 862 Lightning Robotics
32 868 TechHOUNDS
33 967 Iron Lions
34 987 HIGHROLLERS
35 1024 Kil-A-Bytes
36 1114 Simbotics
37 1241 THEORY6
38 1310 RUNNYMEDE ROBOTICS
39 1334 Red Devels
40 1477 Texas Torque
41 1503 Spartonics
42 1538 The Holy Cows
43 1592 Bionic Tigers
44 1625 Winnovation
45 1640 Sab-BOT-age
46 1676 The Pascack PI-oneers
47 1732 Hilltoppers
48 1741 Red Alert Robotics
49 1902 Exploding Bacon
50 2054 Tech Vikes
51 2056 OP Robotics
52 2175 The Fighing Calculators
53 2252 The Mavericks
54 2337 EngiNERDS
55 2338 Gear It Forward
56 2451 PWNAGE
57 2468 Team Appreciate
58 2474 Excel
59 2590 Nemesis
60 2648 Infinite Loop
61 2826 Wave Robotics
62 3467 The Windham Windup
63 3476 Code Orange
64 3539 Byting Bulldogs
65 3641 The Flying Toasters
66 3847 Spectrum
67 3928 Team Neutrino
68 3947 The Last Crusaders
69 4039 MakeShift Robotics
70 4265 Wildbots
71 4334 Alberta Tech Alliance (ATA)
72 4814 United Robotics of London

[BrendanB]

Looks like an extremely competitive event as always with a very solid list of New England contenders (125, 195, 2648, & 3467)!

[Akash Rastogi]

I really wish 254 would go to IRI.

[Basel A]

I really wish 254 would go to IRI.

I really wish there was more west coast participation. Only five teams west of the Rockies! That includes zero from the PNW, even though a number of teams from that region had really good seasons.

IRI Team Map (http://batchgeo.com/map/f4c060a8c6ec9e2b20dd685a491e40a9)

[hammerhead_399]

399 was trapped in the unforgiving hands of district policies.. Hopefully we can make it there next year.

[runneals]

I really wish 254 would go to IRI.

My exact thoughts too. It'll be interesting to see 359 from Hawaii. Counting down the days!

[Cory]

I really wish 254 would go to IRI.

So do we. We had a logistics problem that prevented us from attending.

[SharonO]

What happened to SWAT #1806? They were to be Kansas City's representative.


Sharon
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[Jay O'Donnell]

What happened to SWAT #1806? They were to be Kansas City's representative.


Sharon
Up Next 3528

According to a team member earlier in the thread, their lead mentor was unable to attend and their school would not let them go without him.

[lemiant]

I'm always amazed by how one little off-season in an Indiana highschool manages to attract almost all the best teams in the world.
Who do you think the most notable missing teams are? I'd say 1986, 254 and 1717.

[Koko Ed]

I'm always amazed by how one little off-season in an Indiana highschool manages to attract almost all the best teams in the world.
Who do you think the most notable missing teams are? I'd say 1986, 254 and 1717.

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[rachelholladay]

I'm always amazed by how one little off-season in an Indiana highschool manages to attract almost all the best teams in the world.


I echo this sentiment but in question form.

From my research of the IRI site* (I did research before asking a question on CD..blasphemous i know) the competition was started in 2000 and then became truly an invitational when in "2008, some teams applying to compete at IRI were not invited".

So, is 2008 when the 'modern era' of IRI began? Modern era meaning that it has recognition as the most prestigious off-season event and it is event that has competition level that matches Einstein. Or rather, how did it achieve such a status? (sorry/not sorry to sidetrack the thread onto its own history)


*side note to the webmaster(s) of the IRI website: I really like your site. I was able to find exactly what I was looking for very, very quickly.

[Alan Anderson]

Or rather, how did it achieve such a status?

A big part of that would probably be Andy Baker. Even though he is no longer a mentor for the team who started (and continues to co-host) IRI, he is still a major force making IRI what it is.

Another big part is just good timing. IRI moved to its current location, with room for scores of teams, right when a lot of teams decided they wanted to participate in an off-season competition. That led to a feedback effect, with more teams making for better competition and more publicity, leading to more interest from more teams.

Speaking of location, Indianapolis is a relatively convenient place to travel to, so that helps.

[Chris Hibner]

So, is 2008 when the 'modern era' of IRI began? Modern era meaning that it has recognition as the most prestigious off-season event and it is event that has competition level that matches Einstein. Or rather, how did it achieve such a status? (sorry/not sorry to sidetrack the thread onto its own history)

I remember the IRI being compared to Einstein as far back as 2001. There were qualification matches that year that many people predicted would match or beat the regular season high score. Incidentally, that event was the first time that the match schedule was given to teams in its entirety before the competition started, a practice that was adopted by FIRST the following year.

The hype from the 2001 event carried over to 2002 and it was talked about heavily on chiefdelphi leading up to the event. I seem to remember a few teams that travelled close to 1000 miles to attend.

Then it really started to spiral out of control. Teams from all over the country were attending by 2004. The organizers did a great job of finding more pit space and lengthening the schedule to give teams plenty of matches, despite the increase in number of teams. 2008 was just when it hit its limit

Obviously when you have to turn teams away, the lower end rises and therefore the average ability of the teams increase. But I would say the top end of the IRI has been the best of any competition for at least 5 years before 2008.

[Joe Ross]

The hype from the 2001 event carried over to 2002 and it was talked about heavily on chiefdelphi leading up to the event. I seem to remember a few teams that travelled close to 1000 miles to attend.

330 traveled 2000 miles in 2002 ;). 190 traveled to IRI in 2001, but not 2002. In 2003, 3 east coast teams and 1 west coast team attended.

When 330 decided they wanted to attend an away off-season event in 2002, the main choices were IRI and Battlecry. I don't remember why IRI was chosen, I think Battlecry was a little larger at the time. The next year, IRI exploded, and several new off seasons started on the east coast. I think that was probably the reason that IRI became the defacto offseason, because it was the only one in the area for a while, where as there were a bunch on the east coast.

One of the cool things of the early years of IRI was the pig roast (at least for the Californians).

[Chris Fultz]

if you read the book "The Tipping Point", it relates heavily to the IRI "growth". Suddently, everyone wanted to attend IRI because everyone was attending IRI.

We reached a limit and determined that the speed of signing up was not a good way to manage the event, and went to the apply / invite process.

The event stays strong because we stay focused on a few things, have an incredible volunteer crew, awesome teams, and a few unique activities that makes it more than just a competition on the field.

[hunterteam3476]

What Would be a great Alliance to see at IRI?

[MechEng83]

What Would be a great Alliance to see at IRI?

Pretty much all of them.

[Koko Ed]

What Would be a great Alliance to see at IRI?

It's fun to do this type of thing during practice matches (like putting 1114, 2056 and 1241 together at GTR West and seeing if they can mange to clear the field of every disc). IRI will probably rovide just as much fun mixing and matching matches.

[jmiller48167]

How about having a skills challenge? Most accurate full court shooter, most accurate cycler. Give teams (that are willing to) 1:00 minute to show their best. Just thinking outside the box.

[Jay O'Donnell]

How about having a skills challenge? Most accurate full court shooter, most accurate cycler. Give teams (that are willing to) 1:00 minute to show their best. Just thinking outside the box.

I second this idea! this would be very cool!

[Peyton Yeung]

How about having a skills challenge? Most accurate full court shooter, most accurate cycler. Give teams (that are willing to) 1:00 minute to show their best. Just thinking outside the box.

They did this at the Indiana state championship and it was cool but I'm not sure about it time wise.

[AllenGregoryIV]

They did this at the Indiana state championship and it was cool but I'm not sure about it time wise.

There is something like that at Texas Robot Roundup as well. It would take a very long time with 72 teams though.

[runneals]

Is anyone going to be live streaming IRI? I would be willing to help out on the technical side as much as I can if anyone needs help.

[wesbass23]

Forgive me if this has been brought up already, but did Team Titanium apply? I know they certainly have the skill to play at IRI and I was really looking forward to getting the chance to play with them but I was surprised to not see them on the list.

[404'd]

Forgive me if this has been brought up already, but did Team Titanium apply? I know they certainly have the skill to play at IRI and I was really looking forward to getting the chance to play with them but I was surprised to not see them on the list.
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Just a bad weekend for us logistically. It looks like a great list of teams. We'll be cheering on 1806 as they represent the KC area.
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[XaulZan11]

Teams have until June 30 to finalize payments and then we will publish the "final" listing soon after that.



Has this list been posted? Based on a Facebook status by 234, there are 65 final teams.

[Chris Fultz]

we will be between 65 and 70 teams.

a few are working out details with their schools.

we will publish the "final" list on Monday July 8.

[JB987]

we will be between 65 and 70 teams.

a few are working out details with their schools.

we will publish the "final" list on Monday July 8.

And a "tentative" match schedule, right? Pretty please...