IRI - 2014 Team Invitations

[Chris Fultz]

We will be posting the 2014 IRI Team Invitations.

For invited teams, please send an "Accept" or "Decline" to us by May 30.
We will not be sending a separate invitation email.
Please send your decision to pc@indianaroboticsinvitational.org

We will start sending invoices next week. We know many teams need these soon to get payments processed through their schools, so we will send them before we have confirmations on attendance. The invoice will go to the primary contact noted on the application.

You can pay via paypal or by sending a check.

This was a very challenging year to select teams. There were many, many very qualified teams and we made some tough decisions. We decided to keep the field at about 70* teams so that there was a good balance of the number of matches, the work on volunteers, and strong competition.

*76 invites and usually 4 - 6 are not able to attend for various reasons.

[Pauline Tasci]

So... team list?
;)

[Chris Fultz]

Invited Team List for 2014:

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 51 Wings of Fire
8 67 The HOT Team
9 71 Team Hammond
10 74 Team C.H.A.O.S.
11 107 Team R.O.B.O.T.I.C.S.
12 108 SigmaC@T
13 118 Robonauts
14 125 NUTRONS
15 148 Robowranglers
16 175 Buzz Robotics
17 179 The Children of the Swamp
18 195 Cyber Knights
19 225 TechFire
20 233 The Pink Team
21 234 Cyber Blue
22 254 The Cheesy Poofs
23 330 The Beach Bots
24 334 TechKnights
25 340 G.R.R. (Greater Rochester Robotics)
26 359 Hawaiian Kids
27 368 Team Kika Mana
28 384 Sparky 384
29 399 Eagle Robotics
30 447 Team Roboto
31 469 Las Guerrillas
32 494 Martians
33 503 Frog Force
34 573 Mech Warriors
35 610 The Coyotes
36 624 CRyptonite
37 862 Lightning Robotics
38 868 TechHOUNDS
39 910 The Foley Freeze
40 1023 Bedford Express
41 1024 Kil-A-Bytes
42 1108 Panther Robotics
43 1114 Simbotics
44 1126 SPARX
45 1241 THEORY6
46 1310 RUNNYMEDE ROBOTICS
47 1318 Issaquah Robotics Society
48 1477 Texas Torque
49 1619 Up-A-Creek Robotics
50 1625 Winnovation
51 1640 Sab-BOT-age
52 1718 The Fighting Pi
53 1732 Hilltoppers
54 1741 Red Alert
55 1817 Llano Estacado RoboRaiders
56 2013 Cybergnomes
57 2056 OP Robotics
58 2175 The Fighting Calculators
59 2337 EngiNERDs
60 2451 PWNAGE
61 2468 Team Appreciate
62 2481 Roboteers
63 2590 Nemesis
64 2614 MARS
65 2848 The All Sparks
66 2867 ElkLogics
67 2928 Viking Robotics
68 3098 The Captains
69 3147 Munster HorsePower
70 3467 The Windham Windup
71 3478 LamBot
72 3683 Team Dave
73 4039 MakeShift Robotics
74 4265 Secret City Wildbots
75 4334 Alberta Tech Alliance (ATA)
76 4488 ShockWave

[Billfred]

...I reject your reality, and substitute my own! :P

Congrats to all the teams invited. This is going to be Yet Another Incredible IRI.

[Justin Montois]

Congrats to all teams!

Especially to our CMP alliance partners 16 and 868!

We'll see you there!

[Yipyapper]

The feeling sucks to not make it, but I am so elated to see 2013 make it. I really have been waiting for them to make it for a long time, and they finally get their due.

Let's go Cybergnomes!

[orangemoore]

I am really hoping that I am able to make it.

[MCahoon]

Great to see 3 NW District teams were selected. Go 1318, 2928 and 4488!

[Jean Tenca]

Wow! What an honor to be accepted! We're very excited to go :D

[Gregor]

I see 9 Canadian teams.

610
1114
1241
1310
2013
2056
3683
4039
4334

Congratulations to everyone!

[Link07]

I count four MAR Teams on the list

New Jersey: 11 + 2590
Pennsylvania: 225 + 1640

Good Luck to all teams!

[MARS_James]

Really glad to see we got accepted along with our other two Florida teams 108 and 233

[Karthik]

This is an amazing team list. Frankly, the list of teams who didn't get in is pretty impressive itself. Some examples:

- 12 teams who made the elimination rounds at Champs did not qualify for IRI
- Team 1730, the #3 Alliance Captain on Galileo, did not qualify for IRI
- Team 341, the 6th overall pick on Newton, and MAR Champion, did not qualify for IRI
- Team 1285, GTR East Champs, and whose only elim defeats this season were to some combination of 254/1114/2056, did not qualify for IRI

I could list many other great teams who didn't get in, suffice to say that just qualifying for IRI is a huge accomplishment.

[Thad House]

Wow. I was shaking for a good 5 minutes after reading this. This is amazing. 3 PNW teams as well. Gonna be amazing :D

[Chris Fultz]

- Team 341, the 6th overall pick on Newton, and MAR Champion, did not qualify for IRI.

Actually, 341 mentors let us know last week that they would not be able to attend, and withdrew their application.

[Lil' Lavery]

The following teams didn't make the cut:

48
93
111
193
217
245
292
308
341
422
461
548
744
781
829
1058
1086
1089
1285
1311
1325
1511
1675
1676
1714
1720
1730
1806
2252
2338
2502
2587
2648
2826
2832
2950
3015
3193
3301
3337
3481
3504
3548
3641
3847
3928
3940
4004
4329
4499
4587
4607
4901
4954
4967
5188

[Lil' Lavery]

- Team 1285, GTR East Champs, and who's only elim defeats this season were to some combination of 254/1114/2056, did not qualify for IRI
I don't think the IRI acceptance committee (or whatever their title is?) invites any "second" twins or multiple teams from the same school. They started by only inviting one of 70/494 a couple years ago. They also rejected 193.

Actually, 341 mentors let us know last week that they would not be able to attend, and withdrew their application.
Makes a lot more sense. I almost wrote a post expressing my shock at them not being invited.

[Chris Fultz]

I don't think the IRI acceptance committee (or whatever their title is?) invites any "second" twins or multiple teams from the same school. They started by only inviting one of 70/494 a couple years ago. They also rejected 193.


Correct. If there are multiple teams from one school, we invite one and trust they will all join together. That lets us extend the invitation to more teams / more schools.

[AndrewPospeshil]

Congrats to all the teams who made it this year! This is gonna be an incredible competition, I can tell.

List of the 16 FiM teams competing:

1. 27 Team RUSH
2. 33 Killer Bees
3. 51 Wings of Fire
4. 67 The HOT Team
5. 74 Team C.H.A.O.S.
6. 107 Team R.O.B.O.T.I.C.S.
7. 469 Las Guerrillas
8. 494 Martians
9. 503 Frog Force
10. 573 Mech Warriors
11. 862 Lightning Robotics
12. 910 The Foley Freeze
13. 1023 The Bedford Express
14. 1718 The Fighting Pi
15. 2337 The EngiNERDs
16. 3098 The Captains

Sorry if I missed anybody, this is mostly off the top of my head. Again congrats, looking forward to seeing you all there!

[Link07]

Congrats to all the teams who made it this year! This is gonna be an incredible competition, I can tell.

List of the 15 FiM teams competing:

1. 27 Team RUSH
2. 33 Killer Bees
3. 51 Wings of Fire
4. 67 The HOT Team
5. 74 Team C.H.A.O.S.
6. 107 Team R.O.B.O.T.I.C.S.
7. 469 Las Guerrillas
8. 494 Martians
9. 503 Frog Force
10. 573 Mech Warriors
11. 862 Lightning Robotics
12. 910 The Foley Freeze
13. 1023 The Bedford Express
14. 1718 The Fighting Pi
15. 2337 The EngiNERDs

Sorry if I missed anybody, this is mostly off the top of my head. Again congrats, looking forward to seeing you all there!

It seems like you forgot 3098 - The Captains

[Billfred]

The following teams didn't make the cut:

[snip]

That list of teams* combine for 10 event wins this year, and an additional 13 finalist trophies.

And that's the group that didn't get in.

*341 is two of those wins, 1285 was one gold and one silver.

[Arefin Bari]

Team 108 is ecstatic to be invited to play with the big boys.

My kids are way too happy tonight to plan.

... But I know that IRI will receive our acceptance over the weekend.

[Jim Zondag]

Once Again, it will be the best event of the year!!!
Can't hardly wait!

http://i.imgur.com/G5Zwffq.jpg

[Jay O'Donnell]

Once Again, it will be the best event of the year!!!
Can't hardly wait!

http://i.imgur.com/G5Zwffq.jpg

What do the axis' represent?

[Boe]

The Fighting Calculators are excited to attend for our second year in a row, should be a great competition as always!

Also happy to see our partners from champs 2056 and 399 being invited.

[Aren Siekmeier]

What do the axis' represent?

Looks like vertical axis is adjusted uOPR, while horizontal axis is number of teams with at least that OPR. A cumulative uOPR distribution turned on its side... so that the difference in OPR is clear.

For example, looking at 60 on the x-axis gives the minimum OPR (on the y-axis) of the top 60 teams at the MSC, in Archimedes, or at the IRI.

Edit: that puts us about where I expected, right around the middle of the pack with a uOPR of 80ish (I think). This is going to be one crazy IRI!

[Jim Zondag]

What do the axis' represent?

Y = Adjusted OPR Value
X = Teams ranked Highest to lowest OPR at event

at IRI, every team but one has Adj_OPR value of >40.
Will be most competitive event of 2014.

[Bryan1625]

Team 1625 is honored to be accepted, looks like its going to be some tough but fun competition!

[S.P.A.M.er]

Really glad to see we got accepted along with our other two Florida teams 108 and 233

I'm happy that Florida will be well represented this year! And for PINK 233 to be able to show their stuff again.

My prayers are with you guys. Good luck and may the best Floridian prevail.

[Navid Shafa]

You know the normal qualification system needs work if 9/76 teams attending IRI didn't play at the World Championship.

[tickspe15]

You know the normal qualification system needs work if 9/76 teams attending IRI didn't play at the World Championship.

are any of the nine teams that didn't attend champs from a region that has districts?

[Aren Siekmeier]

You know the normal qualification system needs work if 9/76 teams attending IRI didn't play at the World Championship.

Perhaps a better way to put this is that the IRI committee considered these 9 teams more qualified than the 28 CMP qualifiers who applied and were not accepted. Three of these 28 were 1285, 341, and 193, who weren't accepted for other reasons already addressed. Meanwhile, 2 of the 9 teams you refer to are 234 and 1024, who are hosting the IRI...

Also, this statistic could be far worse. That's only 9 teams (maybe as many as 20 non-CMP qualifiers including those who didn't apply for the IRI) who are "better" than some of the 400 CMP qualifiers. And by this IRI metric (if we're gonna call it that), this 5% (20/400) is only "better" than 10% (28, or ~40 teams) of those who qualified. I feel pretty comfortable dismissing this 5% error as statistical noise, rather than claiming a correlation to an inaccurate qualification system (particularly since the IRI and CMP both have about 5-10% noise built-in with auto-qualifications).

Edit: it might be neat to actually figure out some of the statistics here. We could call the qualification system "error" the difference between some ranking that qualifies you for CMP and some other ranking that we like better (such as qualifying for the IRI, worldwide district points, etc.). The above suggests the error distribution is rather narrow around zero (assuming IRI acceptance is the gold standard of qualification systems...). At the very least, even if both CMP qualification and IRI acceptance are horrible measures of team or robot quality, the discrepancy between the two measures is small.

[ThunderousPrime]

are any of the nine teams that didn't attend champs from a region that has districts?
Only 1. List of IRI teams who didn't play at champs:

71
107 FiM district
*108
233
**234
**1024
1619
1741
***2867

*Won Peachtree as an alliance captain
**Host Team
***Auction winner-Preselected/Auto invite team

I feel that 1730, 1806 and 3928 were snubbed.

1730 ranked 7 at KC, 3 at Bayou and 3 on Galileo and were Galileo Semi-Finalists.
1806 ranked 4 at Central Illinois, 5 at KC and 35 on Newton as a second pick and Newton Semi-Finalist. At KC they lost in finals 1 and finals 3 to the 118-1986 juggernaut by 12 and 5 pts respectively.
3928 ranked 9 at KC and 13 ar North Star and 38 on Newton as a Semi-Finalist who won a match against 1678-1114-1640.

I would like to hear the rationale of the auction being an auto invite to IRI. I acknowledge that the charity money goes to a good cause but I am not sure this sets a good precedent on a "pay to get in basis." (I tried to look info about it on the IRI website but the silent action tab is not updated since 2012.)

It baffles me that a team with an OPR of .7 will be competing at IRI while a team that ranked 3rd on Galileo will not. I acknowlege that IRI is also about bringing together "strong character teams" but this juxtaposition is almost absurd.

[Aren Siekmeier]

...

^ so it's not like IRI acceptance is a perfect measure either.

Looks like some other people would be interested in this:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RYXioZ8wHpDe1STQ-pPOTAfb3t4TV2jowBA40Hgu5uQ/edit?usp=sharing
For each IRI applicant, it shows whether they competed at CMP (A) and whether they were accepted to the IRI (B), as well as "A but not B", "B but not A", "neither A nor B", "A and B". The second row is the total number of teams in each category.

[Koko Ed]

Only 1. List of IRI teams who didn't play at champs:

71
107 FiM district
*108
233
**234
**1024
1619
1741
***2867

*Won Peachtree as an alliance captain
**Host Team
***Auction winner-Preselected/Auto invite team

I feel that 1730, 1806 and 3928 were snubbed.

1730 ranked 7 at KC, 3 at Bayou and 3 on Galileo and were Galileo Semi-Finalists.
1806 ranked 4 at Central Illinois, 5 at KC and 35 on Newton as a second pick and Newton Semi-Finalist. At KC they lost in finals 1 and finals 3 to the 118-1986 juggernaut by 12 and 5 pts respectively.
3928 ranked 9 at KC and 13 ar North Star and 38 on Newton as a Semi-Finalist who won a match against 1678-1114-1640.

I would like to hear the rationale of the auction being an auto invite to IRI. I acknowledge that the charity money goes to a good cause but I am not sure this sets a good precedent on a "pay to get in basis." (I tried to look info about it on the IRI website but the silent action tab is not updated since 2012.)

It baffles me that a team with an OPR of .7 will be competing at IRI while a team that ranked 3rd on Galileo will not. I acknowlege that IRI is also about bringing together "strong character teams" but this juxtaposition is almost absurd.
107 qualified to go to championships but declined to attend. They were one of the best teams in FiM last year.

[Taylor]

I would like to hear the rationale of the auction being an auto invite to IRI. I acknowledge that the charity money goes to a good cause but I am not sure this sets a good precedent on a "pay to get in basis." (I tried to look info about it on the IRI website but the silent action tab is not updated since 2012.)

It baffles me that a team with an OPR of .7 will be competing at IRI while a team that ranked 3rd on Galileo will not. I acknowlege that IRI is also about bringing together "strong character teams" but this juxtaposition is almost absurd.
Top-performing teams had an equal chance to get in via this method.

[Link07]

I would like to hear the rationale of the auction being an auto invite to IRI. I acknowledge that the charity money goes to a good cause but I am not sure this sets a good precedent on a "pay to get in basis." (I tried to look info about it on the IRI website but the silent action tab is not updated since 2012.)


I think we need to step back and realize that at the end of the day, it's just a friendly robotics competition (and an offseason one, at that) The charities that this money goes towards is part of something much bigger.

Note that OPR and Ranking are not always accurate indicators of strength (although this is not to say that any of these teams mentioned are not very strong, high performing teams). Performance in eliminations isn't so great either, as this is dependent on the strength of that alliance as a whole. Robot "strength" is sometimes much less important than alliance composition

[tr6scott]

107 qualified to go to championships but declined to attend. They were one of the best teams in FiM last year.

At MSC we were alliance partners of 107 and the drive coach said before they even announced qualifying teams, that they did not have the funding to go to worlds.

He also said that they hoped to participate at IRI, as it was much more cost effective event in distance and days for the team to fund.

They finished the season ranked 10th overall in Michigan.

The team can play.

[AFron10]

233 Pink team also didn't qualify for champs. But, then again they had that conflict in Orlando.

[notmattlythgoe]

233 Pink team also didn't qualify for champs. But, then again they had that conflict in Orlando.

233 definitely has a good robot, we faced off against them in a down to the wire squeeker at Chesapeake, final score came down to 2 points.

[AFron10]

233 definitely has a good robot, we faced off against them in a down to the wire squeeker at Chesapeake, final score came down to 2 points.

Yeah that's unfortunate that they had a rocky competition season.

[Boe]

After doing some quick calculations it looks like the IRI's BBQ is ~8.8

[MechEng83]

After doing some quick calculations it looks like the IRI's BBQ is ~8.8

BBQ?

Not sure what that is relative to robotics, but now I'm hungry.

[Andrew Schreiber]

BBQ?

Not sure what that is relative to robotics, but now I'm hungry.

It's an EDAMAME (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1384136&postcount=20)

[OZ_341]

233 Pink team also didn't qualify for champs. But, then again they had that conflict in Orlando.

It is quite obvious to me why a team like Pink should be there. Speaking as an event organizer with 15 years of experience (Ramp Riot), I would want Pink at my event, Flat Out. They are a quality team, with a quality machine, and they will raise the roof at your event and get the crowd EXCITED!

All of the numerical analysis leaves out one very important bit of data, the name of the competition.....Indiana Robotics INVITATIONAL. All offseason events are invitationals really. The organizers reserve the right to create a mix of teams that works for their particular event.

Also I wanted to thank 234, 1024, 45, Chris Fultz, Andy Baker and everyone involved with IRI. Team 341 has enjoyed every trip we have made to Indiana. Its an awesome event and we hope to be there in the future! Best wishes for a successful IRI !

[Justin Montois]

... and we hope to be there in the future! Best wishes for a successful IRI !

Team 340 was bummed when we saw you withdrew your application. We really hoped for another event pitted next to you guys. Super Pit could have happened!! We really enjoyed being next to you guys twice this season and just have the utmost respect for your program. Hopefully we'll see you at RampRiot!

[Boe]

BBQ?

Not sure what that is relative to robotics, but now I'm hungry.

Blue Banner Quotient. Total number of blue banners at an event divided by teams in attendance.

[Meredith Novak]

The quality of teams who are not going to be attending IRI is stunning and speaks to the great success of the FRC community in building an expanding class of excellent teams. I felt very bad for the IRI selection committee this year, so please be kind in your discussions.

I would like to mention that we have lots of room at the Ozark Mountain Brawl that will be in Fayetteville, AR the weekend after IRI. We would be beyond thrilled to have the IRI applicants join us. There will be some teams competing at both events as you will see when I start publishing the OMB 2014 team list. I would like to expose my young Arkansas teams to as many of these great FRC teams as possible.

Perhaps I could offer free corn dogs? (Anyone who knows me, realizes the significance. I wouldn't really know where to acquire a corn dog...are there veggie corn dogs?)

[Botsup]

Not sure if they will be selling corn dogs this year (would be awesome), but I am really looking forward to having a giant ear of corn on a stick! Last year everyone was walking around, chowing down on these. When I went to buy one the last day they had already closed up shop. I will be buying my corn early this year!

[Nemo]

Perhaps I could offer free corn dogs? (Anyone who knows me, realizes the significance. I wouldn't really know where to acquire a corn dog...are there veggie corn dogs?)

Yes! My wife is a frequent consumer of this product:

https://www.morningstarfarms.com/products/veggie-dogs/veggie-corn-dogs

She's more of a robotics fan than she realizes.

[Arefin Bari]

107 qualified to go to championships but declined to attend. They were one of the best teams in FiM last year.

We are on the same boat. We qualified for the championship however the team declined to go to the championship.

When we won the Peachtree regional, we decided that we wanted to play at IRI and we should apply.

[IndySam]

The IRI selection committee had had harder job that Aerial Assist referees!

What a list.

[Racer26]

What I find awfully impressive about this? Of the Canadian teams that applied, only 3 (I think!) were rejected.

781, 1285, and 1325.

1285's sister team 1241 WAS accepted, leaving *really* only two Canadian teams not selected.

On a related note: I wonder how IRI's committee would handle a multiple robot school, such as the Robodawgs, which does NOT build twins (or triplets). Its easy in the case of 1241/1285, and 70/494, because you invite one, and they come as one team and it ultimately doesn't matter which of the two robots they bring. In a case of say 216/244/288, do you let the team(s) decide which robot to bring?

[Steven Donow]

What I find awfully impressive about this? Of the Canadian teams that applied, only 3 (I think!) were rejected.

781, 1285, and 1325.

1285's sister team 1241 WAS accepted, leaving *really* only two Canadian teams not selected.

On a related note: I wonder how IRI's committee would handle a multiple robot school, such as the Robodawgs, which does NOT build twins (or triplets). Its easy in the case of 1241/1285, and 70/494, because you invite one, and they come as one team and it ultimately doesn't matter which of the two robots they bring. In a case of say 216/244/288, do you let the team(s) decide which robot to bring?

11/193 don't build twins/operate seperately and only 11 was invited based off this.

[Racer26]

11/193 don't build twins/operate seperately and only 11 was invited based off this.

Fair enough. The question I have then, is are they expected to bring the robot that competed the regular season as 11, or are they allowed to bring 193 instead if they so desire?

EDIT: I say this, because it's not uncommon for teams to make dramatic changes to their robots between regular season and off-seasons, sometimes even going so far as to build an entirely new robot.

[EricDrost]

Fair enough. The question I have then, is are they expected to bring the robot that competed the regular season as 11, or are they allowed to bring 193 instead if they so desire?

We're bringing the 11 bot, but I doubt we'd be told to go home if we brought the 193 bot.

[Jscout11]

Fair enough. The question I have then, is are they expected to bring the robot that competed the regular season as 11, or are they allowed to bring 193 instead if they so desire?

EDIT: I say this, because it's not uncommon for teams to make dramatic changes to their robots between regular season and off-seasons, sometimes even going so far as to build an entirely new robot.

We'll be bringing our normal "11" robot (most likely with some modifications, like we did last year with our 2013 bot)

Edit* Drost beat me to it :rolleyes:

[ElvisMom]

If you are looking for another competition this summer - Rock River Off-Season Competition is the weekend after IRI in Rockford IL (west of Chicago), still have openings too.

We're looking forward to a great weekend - http://www.r2oc.org/index.html

[themccannman]

I'm astonished 1806 and 3928 didn't make the cut. I'm also curious how 1918, 1983, and 971 also didn't make it; that is, if they hadn't already stated that they couldn't attend.

[Navid Shafa]

1983, that is, if they hadn't already stated that they couldn't attend.

We didn't apply.

[Chris is me]

I'm astonished 1806 and 3928 didn't make the cut. I'm also curious how 1918, 1983, and 971 also didn't make it; that is, if they hadn't already stated that they couldn't attend.

None of the last three teams applied to IRI. The applied list is here: http://www.indianaroboticsinvitational.org/robotics-education/134-team-applications-for-the-2014-iri/

[MARS_James]

So lets have some fun with Stats for IRI Teams based on this year:

Awards: 374
Most Awards: 27 and 1241(12), 67, 254, and 2468 (10)
Least Awards: 2867(0), 45, 71, and 233(1)

Matches Won: 3175
Most Matches Won: 67(75), 33(72), 254 (70)
Least Matches Won: 2867(4), 384(16), 1741(17)

Matches Lost: 1291
Most Matches Lost: 910 and 1241(33), 11 and 175 (32)
Least Matches Lost: 1619(6), 16 and 254 (7)

Win Percentage: 71%
Highest Win Percentage: 254(91%), 118(88%), 16(86%)
Lowest Win Percentage: 2867(33%), 1741(52%), 340 (54%)

Regional Wins: 47
Most Regional Wins: 118, 254, 359 (3)

District Wins: 30
Most District Wins: 125 (3)

District Championship Winners: 5
11, 27, 33, 1318, 2590

Championship Division Winner: 12

Championship Winner: 4
74, 254, 469, 2848

Regional Finalist: 22
Most Regional Finalist: 1241(3), 2468(2)

District Finalist: 14
Most District Finalist: 27 and 862(2)

District Championship Finalist: 4
67, 74, 1718, and 4488

Division Finalist: 9

Championship Finalist: 2
1114, 1640

District Chairman's Awards: 9

Regional/District Championship Chairman's Awards: 15

Championship Chairman's Award: 1
27

Creativity Awards: 15

District Engineering Inspiration Awards: 4

Regional/District Championship Engineering Inspiration Award: 6

Division Championship Engineering Inspiration Award: 2
384 and 2468 (Neither Won At A Lower Level)

Entrepreneurship Awards: 15
Most Entrepreneurship Awards: 2468(3), 225 and 2590(2)

Excellence In Engineering Award: 22
Most Excellence In Engineering Awards: 16, 67, 118, 868, 2056(2)

Dean's List Finalist: 14

Dean's List Winners: 1
27 Camron Razdar

Gracious Professionalism Awards: 9
Most Gracious Professionalism Awards: 254 and 2614 (2)

Imagery Awards: 6
Most Imagery Awards: 910(2)

Industrial Design Awards: 27
Most Industrial Design Awards: 11, 195, 399, 1114, and 1817 (2)

Industrial Safety Awards: 9
Most Industrial Safety Awards: 624, 1817 and 2175 (2)

Innovation In Control Awards: 21
Most Innovation In Control Awards: 494(3), 368 and 624(2)

Judges Awards: 4
74, 108, 2848 and 4334

Quality Award: 20
Most Quality Awards: 254, 1024, 1114 (2)

Spirit Award: 6
51, 107, 340, 862, 1023 and 3478

Volunteer of The Year Awards: 4
Brandon Holley(125),Tarjote Chaggar(2056), Osa Tui(368), Arti Javeri, and Florence Lee(1241)

Woodie Flowers Award Winners: 15


If there is any inaccuracies with my data let me know.

[Steven Donow]

So lets have some fun with Stats for IRI Teams based on this year:

Awards: 374
Most Awards: 27 and 1241(12), 67, 254, and 2468 (10)
Least Awards: 2867(0), 45, 71, and 233(1)

Matches Won: 3175
Most Matches Won: 67(75), 33(72), 254 (70)
Least Matches Won: 2867(4), 384(16), 1741(17)

Matches Lost: 1291
Most Matches Lost: 910 and 1241(33), 11 and 175 (32)
Least Matches Lost: 1619(6), 16 and 254 (7)

Win Percentage: 71%
Highest Win Percentage: 254(91%), 118(88%), 16(86%)
Lowest Win Percentage: 2867(33%), 1741(52%), 340 (54%)

Regional Wins: 47
Most Regional Wins: 118, 254, 359 (3)

District Wins: 30
Most District Wins: 125, 1023 (3)

District Championship Winners: 5
11, 27, 33, 1318, 2590

Championship Division Winner: 12

Championship Winner: 4
74, 254, 469, 2848

Regional Finalist: 22
Most Regional Finalist: 1241(3), 2468(2)

District Finalist: 14
Most District Finalist: 27 and 862(2)

District Championship Finalist: 4
67, 74, 1718, and 4488

Division Finalist: 9

Championship Finalist: 2
1114, 1640

Chairman's Awards: 24

Championship Chairman's Award: 1
27

Creativity Awards: 15

Engineering Inspiration Awards: 12

Entrepreneurship Awards: 15
Most Entrepreneurship Awards: 2468(3), 225 and 2590(2)

Excellence In Engineering Award: 22
Most Excellence In Engineering Awards: 16, 67, 118, 868, 2056(2)

Dean's List Finalist: 14

Dean's List Winners: 1
27 Camron Razdar

Gracious Professionalism Awards: 9
Most Gracious Professionalism Awards: 254 and 2614 (2)

Imagery Awards: 6
Most Imagery Awards: 910(2)

Industrial Design Awards: 27
Most Industrial Design Awards: 11, 195, 399, 1114, and 1817 (2)

Industrial Safety Awards: 9
Most Industrial Safety Awards: 624, 1817 and 2175 (2)

Innovation In Control Awards: 21
Most Innovation In Control Awards: 494(3), 368 and 624(2)

Judges Awards: 4
74, 108, 2848 and 4334

Quality Award: 20
Most Quality Awards: 254, 1024, 1114 (2)

Spirit Award: 6
51, 107, 340, 862, 1023 and 3478

Volunteer of The Year Awards: 4
Tarjote Chaggar(2056), Osa Tui(368), Arti Javeri, and Florence Lee(1241)

Woodie Flowers Award Winners: 15


If there is any inaccuracies with my data let me know.

1023 did not win 3 districts. Also I would consider splitting District Chairmans and Regional/Region Championships Chairmans.

And Brandon Holley from 125 won Volunteer of the Year at Northeastern, he's just not listed as having team affiliation in FIRST's records.

[MARS_James]

1023 did not win 3 districts. Also I would consider splitting District Chairmans and Regional/Region Championships Chairmans.

And Brandon Holley from 125 won Volunteer of the Year at Northeastern, he's just not listed as having team affiliation in FIRST's records.

Fixed thank you, and done as well as with Engineering Inspiration

[FoleyEngineer]

Did anyone play more matches than The Foley Freeze (910) at 96?

It will be fun to see how many there will be after the off-season ones at MARC, IRI, Kettering Kickoff and possibly the all-girls event and WMRI? Could be well over 150! The "Polar Vortex" be one tired robot!

Really looking forward to coming back!

John


(IRI Application Video: http://youtu.be/iFWqD0DvVZM)

[Steven Donow]

Did anyone play more matches than The Foley Freeze (910) at 96?

It will be fun to see how many there will be after the off-season ones at MARC, IRI, Kettering Kickoff and possibly the all-girls event and WMRI? Could be well over 150! The "Polar Vortex" be one tired robot!

Really looking forward to coming back!

John


(IRI Application Video: http://youtu.be/iFWqD0DvVZM)

98. (http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/125) Officially. 12 replays also (go to four districts, get a fifth free!)

[rnewendyke]

So lets have some fun with Stats for IRI Teams based on this year:

Awards: 374
Most Awards: 27 and 1241(12), 67, 254, and 2468 (10)
Least Awards: 2867(0), 45, 71, and 233(1)

Matches Won: 3175
Most Matches Won: 67(75), 33(72), 254 (70)
Least Matches Won: 2867(4), 384(16), 1741(17)

Matches Lost: 1291
Most Matches Lost: 910 and 1241(33), 11 and 175 (32)
Least Matches Lost: 1619(6), 16 and 254 (7)

Win Percentage: 71%
Highest Win Percentage: 254(91%), 118(88%), 16(86%)
Lowest Win Percentage: 2867(33%), 1741(52%), 340 (54%)

Regional Wins: 47
Most Regional Wins: 118, 254, 359 (3)

District Wins: 30
Most District Wins: 125 (3)

District Championship Winners: 5
11, 27, 33, 1318, 2590

Championship Division Winner: 12

Championship Winner: 4
74, 254, 469, 2848

Regional Finalist: 22
Most Regional Finalist: 1241(3), 2468(2)

District Finalist: 14
Most District Finalist: 27 and 862(2)

District Championship Finalist: 4
67, 74, 1718, and 4488

Division Finalist: 9

Championship Finalist: 2
1114, 1640

District Chairman's Awards: 9

Regional/District Championship Chairman's Awards: 15

Championship Chairman's Award: 1
27

Creativity Awards: 15

District Engineering Inspiration Awards: 4

Regional/District Championship Engineering Inspiration Award: 6

Division Championship Engineering Inspiration Award: 2
384 and 2468 (Neither Won At A Lower Level)

Entrepreneurship Awards: 15
Most Entrepreneurship Awards: 2468(3), 225 and 2590(2)

Excellence In Engineering Award: 22
Most Excellence In Engineering Awards: 16, 67, 118, 868, 2056(2)

Dean's List Finalist: 14

Dean's List Winners: 1
27 Camron Razdar

Gracious Professionalism Awards: 9
Most Gracious Professionalism Awards: 254 and 2614 (2)

Imagery Awards: 6
Most Imagery Awards: 910(2)

Industrial Design Awards: 27
Most Industrial Design Awards: 11, 195, 399, 1114, and 1817 (2)

Industrial Safety Awards: 9
Most Industrial Safety Awards: 624, 1817 and 2175 (2)

Innovation In Control Awards: 21
Most Innovation In Control Awards: 494(3), 368 and 624(2)

Judges Awards: 4
74, 108, 2848 and 4334

Quality Award: 20
Most Quality Awards: 254, 1024, 1114 (2)

Spirit Award: 6
51, 107, 340, 862, 1023 and 3478

Volunteer of The Year Awards: 4
Brandon Holley(125),Tarjote Chaggar(2056), Osa Tui(368), Arti Javeri, and Florence Lee(1241)

Woodie Flowers Award Winners: 15


If there is any inaccuracies with my data let me know.

One stat you're missing that kind of caught my eye is elimination wins:

There were a total of 756 elimination wins by the 76 teams invited to attend IRI leading up to Champs totaling to just under 10 wins per team. After Champs the number goes up to 887 elimination wins which comes out to around 11.7 wins per team.

Did anyone play more matches than The Foley Freeze (910) at 96?

The next closest thing I've seen is 90. I forget who it was though.

[billylo]

Not sure about this year... Texas Torque played a crazy number of games in 2013. 112 games according to TBA.

http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/1477/2013

Overall, team 1477 was 93-29-0 in 2013.

[bkahl]

So lets have some fun with Stats for IRI Teams based on this year:

Awards: 374
Most Awards: 27 and 1241(12), 67, 254, and 2468 (10)
Least Awards: 2867(0), 45, 71, and 233(1)

Matches Won: 3175
Most Matches Won: 67(75), 33(72), 254 (70)
Least Matches Won: 2867(4), 384(16), 1741(17)

Matches Lost: 1291
Most Matches Lost: 910 and 1241(33), 11 and 175 (32)
Least Matches Lost: 1619(6), 16 and 254 (7)

Win Percentage: 71%
Highest Win Percentage: 254(91%), 118(88%), 16(86%)
Lowest Win Percentage: 2867(33%), 1741(52%), 340 (54%)

Regional Wins: 47
Most Regional Wins: 118, 254, 359 (3)

District Wins: 30
Most District Wins: 125 (3)

District Championship Winners: 5
11, 27, 33, 1318, 2590

Championship Division Winner: 12

Championship Winner: 4
74, 254, 469, 2848

Regional Finalist: 22
Most Regional Finalist: 1241(3), 2468(2)

District Finalist: 14
Most District Finalist: 27 and 862(2)

District Championship Finalist: 4
67, 74, 1718, and 4488

Division Finalist: 9

Championship Finalist: 2
1114, 1640

District Chairman's Awards: 9

Regional/District Championship Chairman's Awards: 15

Championship Chairman's Award: 1
27

Creativity Awards: 15

District Engineering Inspiration Awards: 4

Regional/District Championship Engineering Inspiration Award: 6

Division Championship Engineering Inspiration Award: 2
384 and 2468 (Neither Won At A Lower Level)

Entrepreneurship Awards: 15
Most Entrepreneurship Awards: 2468(3), 225 and 2590(2)

Excellence In Engineering Award: 22
Most Excellence In Engineering Awards: 16, 67, 118, 868, 2056(2)

Dean's List Finalist: 14

Dean's List Winners: 1
27 Camron Razdar

Gracious Professionalism Awards: 9
Most Gracious Professionalism Awards: 254 and 2614 (2)

Imagery Awards: 6
Most Imagery Awards: 910(2)

Industrial Design Awards: 27
Most Industrial Design Awards: 11, 195, 399, 1114, and 1817 (2)

Industrial Safety Awards: 9
Most Industrial Safety Awards: 624, 1817 and 2175 (2)

Innovation In Control Awards: 21
Most Innovation In Control Awards: 494(3), 368 and 624(2)

Judges Awards: 4
74, 108, 2848 and 4334

Quality Award: 20
Most Quality Awards: 254, 1024, 1114 (2)

Spirit Award: 6
51, 107, 340, 862, 1023 and 3478

Volunteer of The Year Awards: 4
Brandon Holley(125),Tarjote Chaggar(2056), Osa Tui(368), Arti Javeri, and Florence Lee(1241)

Woodie Flowers Award Winners: 15


If there is any inaccuracies with my data let me know.

195 was a District Championship Finalist.

[Abhishek R]

Not sure about this year... Texas Torque played a crazy number of games in 2013. 112 games according to TBA.

http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/1477/2013

Overall, team 1477 was 93-29-0 in 2013.

Was definitely a long season for them. Though I think 125 will top them after the offseason this year.

[Gdeaver]

Are any selected teams in the position of not being able to have their 2014 drive team at IRI? For any drivers that are making their first First appearance, this will be a Baptism by Fire.

[Chris Fultz]

O
I would like to hear the rationale of the auction being an auto invite to IRI. I acknowledge that the charity money goes to a good cause but I am not sure this sets a good precedent on a "pay to get in basis."

I am not even sure how to respond to this. This is an invitational, an off-season, an event that puts as much effort and energy into the charity and giving side of the event (team dinner, silent auction, backpacks for second graders, scholarships) as the competition side. Those two auctions spots raised over $2000 for Riley Hospital. I personally think that is an awesome precedent to set and it will continue for the 2014 event.

We also have a tradition that the previous winners are invited back with no entry fee. There is no guarantee that a team that was a winner last year will be competitive this year, but that is part of what makes this event special.

[Abhishek R]

Are any selected teams in the position of not being able to have their 2014 drive team at IRI? For any drivers that are making their first First appearance, this will be a Baptism by Fire.

Many teams train some new members of drive teams at IRI. Its often seniors who are getting ready for college, students on vacation, or just giving prospective drivers some exposure. I know we will have at least one new member this year.

[Racer26]

It would be interesting to see what the actual mileage of a typical FRC match is.

Anybody used their encoders to make an odometer and say their robot travelled X distance over a season of play?

[Pretzel]

It would be interesting to see what the actual mileage of a typical FRC match is.

Anybody used their encoders to make an odometer and say their robot travelled X distance over a season of play?

To add to that, it would be interesting to put an accelerometer on the robots to see how forceful the impact of a collision between robots is. I would imagine that it can get quite high, in terms of g-forces, but I could also be completely wrong.

[Chris Hibner]

To add to that, it would be interesting to put an accelerometer on the robots to see how forceful the impact of a collision between robots is. I would imagine that it can get quite high, in terms of g-forces, but I could also be completely wrong.

We did this back in 2003 so our robot could sense collisions in autonomous and shift to low gear to push (you'll have to find some videos of 2003 to see why this was important that year).

Back then there were no bumpers on robots so the collisions easily saturated the 100G accelerometer we were using. I would love to repeat this with bumpers.

[hrench]

To add to that, it would be interesting to put an accelerometer on the robots to see how forceful the impact of a collision between robots is. I would imagine that it can get quite high, in terms of g-forces, but I could also be completely wrong.

I imagine you could extrapolate crash g's (decelleration) from the graph of the wheel encoders, as long as the crash was in the direction of travel. How accurate could that be?

[Aren Siekmeier]

I imagine you could extrapolate crash g's (decelleration) from the graph of the wheel encoders, as long as the crash was in the direction of travel. How accurate could that be?

The dt of a drive encoder is on the scale of 0.1 ms (360 ticks/rev encoder 1:1 on 4 inch wheels at 20 ft/s), so the largest acceleration you could meaningfully measure would be something around 20 ft/s / 0.1 ms = 200000 ft/s^2 which is about 6000 G's. However, this response would have to take place in the FPGA, which the cRio is not currently programmed to do (the encoder rate is also computed in the FPGA, built-in to the image provided by FIRST - WPILib just pulls this value). Outside the FPGA, the response time is more like 10 or even 100 ms, limiting your accel to 60 G's, or perhaps even just 6 G's.

[Alex2614]

We'll be representing West Virginia with pride! I'm so excited and really hope I can make it to either volunteer or travel with MARS!

[Greg Needel]

It is with much disappointment that 2848 is not going to be able to attend IRI this year. We wanted to go so badly to play with many friends again, but there were a number of circumstances that are keeping us away.

Good luck to all the teams competing and we will be routing specifically for our fellow world champions 254, 469, and 74 and our Texas friends to bring it home.

[Thad House]

We just learned today that Shockwave WILL be going to IRI! PNW and Oregon represent!

[Meredith Novak]

It is with much disappointment that 2848 is not going to be able to attend IRI this year. We wanted to go so badly to play with many friends again, but there were a number of circumstances that are keeping us away.

Sadness. We will miss you!

[barn34]

The Roboteers are stoked to be attending IRI this year! We are looking forward to seeing all of our friends who we've competed with in the past and making new friends from the amazing teams that we haven't had the privlidge to work with yet. It will be an honor, as always, to work with all of you! Should be an amazing time!

PS - We've got a dream of seeing an all swerve drive alliance in action...hopefully we'll get the chance, at some point, at IRI. ;)

[BrendanB]

3467 will regretfully not be able to attend this year! :( We had such a blast last year and wished we could make the trip again to play with the amazing teams at IRI this year. We hope we can make it back next year!

Best of luck to our fellow friends from New England: 125, 175, 195 & 20 (who we'll count as NE since they've competed here forever ;)).

Also good luck to our fellow partners from Archimedes 1477, 1625, & 2590! Three utterly amazing teams on and off the field and we wish you the best! :)

[bkahl]

3467 will regretfully not be able to attend this year! :( We had such a blast last year and wished we could make the trip again to play with the amazing teams at IRI this year. We hope we can make it back next year!

Best of luck to our fellow friends from New England: 125, 175, 195 & 20 (who we'll count as NE since they've competed here forever ;).

Also good luck to our fellow partners from Archimedes 1477, 1625, & 2590! Three utterly amazing teams on and off the field and we wish you the best! :)
I feel like i'm holding back tears right now :'(

[BrendanB]

I feel like i'm holding back tears right now :'(

Don't make me start crying! :rolleyes: This means 195 needs to sign up for River Rage so we can play again. Or you convince us to come to Bash! ;)

[Kevin Leonard]

Don't make me start crying! :rolleyes: This means 195 needs to sign up for River Rage so we can play again. Or you convince us to come to Bash! ;)

This needs to happen.

I'm disappointed Windham can't make it. Your robot was certainly one of a kind.
:)

[hammerhead_399]

399 sent in their acceptance!

This is going to be a wicked good time. We're excited :)

[Matthew Lang]

610 will have to respectfully decline our invitation. We will be cheering on our fellow Canadians, honorary Canadians 1477, and all of the teams we traded paraphernalia with at champs, specifically 16, whose lanyards are worn proudly by many 610 students around school :] Apologies to the anonymous awesome team whose spot we took.

[waialua359]

Team 359 has paid and officially ready to go!
Airfare, hotel, rental cars all booked!

[ay2b]

2928 is thrilled to be able to go. (Even though it'll be a very small contingent.)

[JOClarke]

Chris Fultz and IRI committee
Team 384 SPARKY really appreciates the invitation to what is one the best offseason competitions in FRC, but we must decline the invitation due unforeseen mentor and student scheduling issues. Again this offer meant a lot to the team and we hope that we can rise to the occasion next year.

[SGK]

It is with great regret that Team 175 Buzz Robotics had to decline the kind invitation to this year’s 2014 IRI Tournament.

We were both honored and surprised to be invited this year. It was especially a surprise to students, mentors and the managers of Buzz, as the whole application was completed and submitted covertly by one of our graduating seniors!!

We genuinely examined the possibility of coming out for the competition this year, but unfortunately, it is not logistically possible for us to plan and execute the trip to Indiana. Most of the students and their families already have planned activities for this summer and our ability to mount a proper student Drive Team, transport the estimated 30 hours round trip, is just not feasible for this year.

We would like to have the opportunity in the future to be invited and will, going forward, include the potential of attending the IRI Tourney in our planning activities.

:) :) BUZZ 175 :) :)

[Brandon Holley]

Chris and co.

Do you have a list of teams who accepted their invites available to share?


-Brando

[Travis Hoffman]

Sounds to me like the IRI committee might consider requiring proof that an adult mentor either submitted or gave consent to submit an IRI application moving forward. Might eliminate....unnecessary headaches. :D

[Andy Baker]

Hey guys, no need to worry here. We usually get between 5-8 declines each year. This year it is the same, but the declines are being made in a more public manner.

Sincerely,
Andy

[PizzaBoxZombie]

225 is excited to be attending this year! We will be a smaller crew, as we are not doing this as a "team outing" and as others have mentioned we have students/mentors with prior summer plans.

[Koko Ed]

Hey guys, no need to worry here. We usually get between 5-8 declines each year. This year it is the same, but the declines are being made in a more public manner.

Sincerely,
Andy

Having the event in the 60's might be easier to handle.

[AdamHeard]

Hey guys, no need to worry here. We usually get between 5-8 declines each year. This year it is the same, but the declines are being made in a more public manner.

Sincerely,
Andy

Didn't you guys also increase the number of invites a few years ago for this reason?

[XaulZan11]

Any word on rule changes?

[Steven Donow]

Any word on rule changes?

Previously discussed here (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=129203&highlight=iri)

I like them. Small changes that don't completely change it into a different game

[AdamHeard]

Previously discussed here (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=129203&highlight=iri)

I like them. Small changes that don't completely change it into a different game

Nothing official in that thread though.

[EricDrost]

Any word on rule changes?

Fingers crossed, it's replaying the 2013 game.

[Arefin Bari]

Team 108 is having the hardest time finding any hotels nearby. Last Friday, several hotels told me that they would call me back yesterday (Monday) with group rates and such; however every hotel I spoke to seems like they either don't have rooms available or unable to provide an invoice for check (they prefer cash or credit card).

If there are any teams who is getting rid of some rooms please send me a pm. We are in need of six rooms. Thank you.

[wilsonmw04]

FIRST Team 1086 Blue Cheese is excited to be making the trip to IRI this year. I should be an awesome event.

[BobbyVanNess]

Will there be any updates on the 2014 IRI Talent Show and audition process? I don't believe I've seen anything about it so far. It was a lot of fun last time and I've already got some new material prepared for this year. :D

[Gregor]

Is there a "final" list available of team who've accepted their invitations?

[Chris Fultz]

we will post the final list of teams in a few days. we are confirming payments and final acceptances.

yes there WILL be a talent show. we will post the details soon, but it will be similar to previous years, where you will need to sign up and then audition.

[Erobot]

I am sorry but what is IRI? Is it an season world champs for all the elites of that year?:confused:

[Erobot]

I am sorry but what is IRI? Is it an season world champs for all the elites of that year?:confused:

[Jay O'Donnell]

I am sorry but what is IRI? Is it an season world champs for all the elites of that year?:confused:

IRI is a competition run by some teams in Indiana every summer. Teams from all over the world apply and the committee picks the best 70 teams (in their opinion) to compete against each other. It isn't an official FIRST event, but most people see it as more competitive than FRC world champs.

[Chris Fultz]

Here is the final expected team list.
70 teams. We are excited for the 2014 IRI!


1 11 M.O.R.T.
2 16 Bomb Squad
3 20 The Rocketeers
4 27 Team RUSH
5 33 Killer Bees
6 45 TechnoKats
7 51 Wings Of Fire
8 67 Heroes of Tomorrow
9 71 Team Hammond
10 74 Holland CHAOS
11 107 Team R.O.B.O.T.I.C.S.
12 108 SigmaC@Ts
13 118 The Robonauts
14 125 NUTRONs
15 148 Robowranglers
16 179 The Children of the Swamp
17 195 CyberKnights
18 225 TechFire
19 233 The Pink Team
20 234 Cyber Blue
21 254 The Cheesy Poofs / Teh Chezy Pofs
22 330 The Beach Bots
23 340 Greater Rochester Robotics (GRR)
24 359 Hawaiian Kids
25 368 Team Kika Mana
26 399 Eagle Robotics
27 447 Team Roboto
28 461 Westside Boiler Invasion
29 469 Las Guerrillas
30 494 The Martians
31 503 Frog Force
32 573 Mech Warriors
33 624 CRyptonite
34 868 TechHOUNDS
35 910 The Foley Freeze
36 1023 Bedford Express
37 1024 Kil-A-Bytes
38 1086 Blue Cheese
39 1108 Panther Robotics
40 1114 Simbotics
41 1241 theory 6
42 1310 Runnymede Robotics
43 1477 Texas Torque
44 1619 Up-A-Creek Robotics
45 1625 Winnovation
46 1640 Sab-BOT-age
47 1718 The Fighting Pi
48 1730 Team Driven
49 1732 Hilltoppers
50 1741 Red Alert
51 1806 S.W.A.T.
52 1817 Llano Estacado RoboRaiders
53 2013 Cybergnomes Robotics
54 2056 OP Robotics
55 2175 The Fighting Calculators
56 2337 EngiNERDs
57 2451 PWNAGE
58 2468 Appreciate
59 2481 Roboteers
60 2590 Nemesis
61 2614 Mountaineer Area Robotics
62 2867 ElkLogics
63 2928 Viking Robotics
64 3098 The Captains
65 3478 LamBot
66 3683 Team DAVE
67 4039 MakeShift Robotics
68 4265 Secret City Wildbots
69 4334 Alberta Tech Alliance
70 4488 Shockwave

[XaulZan11]

Unless I'm mistaken it looks like 175, 334, 384, 610, 862, 1126, 1318, 2848, 3147 and 3467 declined their invitations while 461, 1086, 1730 and 1806 accepted additional invitations.

[Aren Siekmeier]

Unless I'm mistaken it looks like 175, 334, 384, 610, 862, 1126, 1318, 2848, 3147 and 3467 declined their invitations while 461, 1086, 1730 and 1806 accepted additional invitations.

Yep (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RYXioZ8wHpDe1STQ-pPOTAfb3t4TV2jowBA40Hgu5uQ/edit?usp=sharing).

[wilsonmw04]

Yep (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RYXioZ8wHpDe1STQ-pPOTAfb3t4TV2jowBA40Hgu5uQ/edit?usp=sharing).

what does these columns represent?

[Aren Siekmeier]

what does these columns represent?

It's not entirely clear from reading the formulae... The headers are labels for some set, or possibly a set difference (the set of teams invited to the IRI, invited to CMP, IRI but not CMP, etc.). Then the column is the indicator function for this set for the team in the leftmost column (for all teams who applied to the IRI).

I rearranged the columns since then the two sets I added look at the teams invited to the IRI (iri inv) and compare this list to the teams in the final list (iri final). This second group of columns is where I got the info backing up John's post, where it lists team numbers in "Invited but not Final" and "Final but not Invited". But not the easiest to read spreadsheet in the world...

Edit: besides, something like this really ought to be done python or something instead...

[Kevin Leonard]

So I've quickly set up an IRI Prescout spreadsheet here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mjuT_L5JesKXQzk371eFTY4Gjqz3NFdE-dmsUhEv-gA/edit?usp=sharing
It'd be cool if teams could enter their own information in.
I'd ask that you not re-sort the spreadsheet, Only enter your own team's information, and if you have any questions as to what anything on the spreadsheet means, comment here. Thanks!
IRI is just two weekends away!!!!

[Kevin Leonard]

I'd ask that you not re-sort the spreadsheet, Only enter your own team's information,


The idea behind this is while you might think you know a team's robot inside and out, some teams make crazy changes (sometimes even bringing whole new robots) for IRI.
Unless you know for sure what a team has or hasn't done since Championships, don't fill spaces in for them in the spreadsheet.

[Pretzel]

I had just a couple questions on the spreadsheet.
- What is a "fender shot"?
- When you say inbound from close versus range you mean whether or not the robot can be loaded by a human player up close or from far away, correct?

[Kevin Leonard]

I had just a couple questions on the spreadsheet.
- What is a "fender shot"?
- When you say inbound from close versus range you mean whether or not the robot can be loaded by a human player up close or from far away, correct?

A fender shot is shooting in the high goal from up against the low goal. Like 254, 2590, 1114, etc.

And that's exactly what is meant by inbounding from range vs. close.

If there's anything that someone thinks should be added to the spreadsheet, just say the word.

[CaptainKirby]

I believe that a column rating the truss shot to a human player would be useful.

[wesbass23]

I believe that a column rating the truss shot to a human player would be useful.

As in quality/accuracy of the shot?

[Shifter]

Kevin,

Thanks for setting up this spreadsheet.

One question: is the column "Passback to Human Player" meant to describe an immediate mini-pass by the robot back to the inbounding human player (ie. 4334 in Curie elims (http://www.thebluealliance.com/match/2014cur_sf1m1)) or a 20+ ft over-the-truss pass to the human player in the offensive end?

[Aren Siekmeier]

Kevin,

Thanks for setting up this spreadsheet.

One question: is the column "Passback to Human Player" meant to describe an immediate mini-pass by the robot back to the inbounding human player (ie. 4334 in Curie elims (http://www.thebluealliance.com/match/2014cur_sf1m1)) or a 20+ ft over-the-truss pass to the human player in the offensive end?

Or a pass across the field from one human player to the other? (175 in Archimedes elims (http://www.thebluealliance.com/match/2014arc_f1m2))

[CaptainKirby]

As in quality/accuracy of the shot?

Yes, but with regard to catching it. For instance, a good shot human player shot would be high arcing and accurate, where as one that would be slightly harder to catch would have a higher power and a flatter trajectory.

[MARS_James]

So any idea when we might be getting a match schedule? :D

[Chris is me]

Kevin,

Thanks for setting up this spreadsheet.

One question: is the column "Passback to Human Player" meant to describe an immediate mini-pass by the robot back to the inbounding human player (ie. 4334 in Curie elims (http://www.thebluealliance.com/match/2014cur_sf1m1)) or a 20+ ft over-the-truss pass to the human player in the offensive end?

I'm 99% sure "passback" refers to a short range pass from the robot to the HP, such as 4334's trampoline thing or 973's play on Einstein. If your robot can roll the ball over the alliance wall, it can pass back.

[Kevin Leonard]

I believe that a column rating the truss shot to a human player would be useful.

How would one even go about this?
"Rate your truss to HP 1-5?"
Everyone puts 5. No info received.
I'll base how good they are at trussing to the human player on my match scouting data.

Kevin,
Thanks for setting up this spreadsheet.

You're welcome!


One question: is the column "Passback to Human Player" meant to describe an immediate mini-pass by the robot back to the inbounding human player (ie. 4334 in Curie elims (http://www.thebluealliance.com/match/2014cur_sf1m1)) or a 20+ ft over-the-truss pass to the human player in the offensive end?
I'm 99% sure "passback" refers to a short range pass from the robot to the HP, such as 4334's trampoline thing or 973's play on Einstein. If your robot can roll the ball over the alliance wall, it can pass back.

Chris is correct. It implies a 4334/973/2590 passback to the human player.

The pass across the field is something different (I call it a zig-zag pass), but being that any robot with more than a fender shot could perform that pass, I elected not to add it to the spreadsheet.

[Ryguy7824]

Regarding the rating of the truss shot, why not include another column with a link to a video showing one? This way you can actually watch it to see how it works and how easy it was for the human player to catch it.

[AdamHeard]

Does anyone know what service the webcast is being offered on?

It affects whether or not we can watch it in shop.

Thanks!

[Max Boord]

Does anyone know what service the webcast is being offered on?

It affects whether or not we can watch it in shop.

Thanks!

What services work in your shop? I would expect justin.tv or twitch.tv to be used as they provide the highest quality streams (60fps 30000kbps 1080p).

[Thad House]

Does anyone know what service the webcast is being offered on?

It affects whether or not we can watch it in shop.

Thanks!

I know that the FIRSTWA streams used Ustream during the season. I would assume thats what they are using since the systems are already set up for it, but I don't know exactly.

[AdamHeard]

What services work in your shop? I would expect justin.tv or twitch.tv to be used as they provide the highest quality streams (60fps 30000kbps 1080p).

Both of those are banned.

Youtube works, ustream alternates between being banned and unbanned.

[Andrew Lawrence]

Both of those are banned.

Youtube works, ustream alternates between being banned and unbanned.

Is it a district-wide ban, or is it school specific? Having worked as my school's student tech, you can ask your school's official TSG/TSC for a temp unblock from the network. For California Unified schools the TSG/TSC positions are considered administration in part and can authorize access to blocked parts of the network.

[AdamHeard]

Is it a district-wide ban, or is it school specific? Having worked as my school's student tech, you can ask your school's official TSG/TSC for a temp unblock from the network. For California Unified schools the TSG/TSC positions are considered administration in part and can authorize access to blocked parts of the network.

They won't unblock twitch because of nudity.

We get all sorts of other sites unblocked, we've dealt with them enough to know twitch isn't happening.

[tickspe15]

The AV team is currently set up to stream on Ustream, like Thad said, but we can switch to any service within seconds.

We will not be using YouTube streaming services because of recurring copyright issues.

We will give a more elaborate explanation of our choices at our workshop on Thursday night, we hope you all attend.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=130014

[Boe]

The AV team is currently set up to stream on Ustream, like Thad said, but we can switch to any service within seconds.

We will not be using YouTube streaming services because of recurring copyright issues.

We will give a more elaborate explanation of our choices at our workshop on Thursday night, we hope you all attend.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=130014

What is the account name the webcast will be streamed on, or do you have a link to where the webcast will be?

[Metonym]

What is the account name the webcast will be streamed on, or do you have a link to where the webcast will be?

I forget which one is the full field and which one is the dynamic, but our current stream keys lead to these two channels.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/firstwa-blue
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/firstwa-red

The IRI staff may have us change that, but for now this is where you can find it. There will be another post by me after setup on Thursday giving out the final details of our stream.

[tickspe15]

I forget which one is the full field and which one is the dynamic, but our current stream keys lead to these two channels.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/firstwa-blue
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/firstwa-red

The IRI staff may have us change that, but for now this is where you can find it. There will be another post by me after setup on Thursday giving out the final details of our stream.

Red will be the dynamic stream and blue will be full field. If anything changes we will update this thread

[JOEL340]

When does the match schedule usually get released.

[Jay O'Donnell]

When does the match schedule usually get released.

In the past it was like a normal regional when teams got them the day of the event but last year they released them early I believe. Not sure how early though.

[Chris Fultz]

When does the match schedule usually get released.

We will probably release it mid-week, with the "provisional" statement that is assumes all teams make it. We know 4334 is not able to attend, but believe the other teams are all in.

[JOEL340]

We will probably release it mid-week, with the "provisional" statement that is assumes all teams make it. We know 4334 is not able to attend, but believe the other teams are all in.
Ok thank you very much!!

[Chris Fultz]

Sad to report teams 108 and 4334 have had to drop from the IRI due to some issues with travel and other concerns.

We will proceed with 68 teams. All others are confirmed and plan to be in attendance.

[AdamHeard]

Any info on how rankings and/or match results will be posted?

Thanks!

[Domenic Rodriguez]

I forget which one is the full field and which one is the dynamic, but our current stream keys lead to these two channels.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/firstwa-blue
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/firstwa-red

The IRI staff may have us change that, but for now this is where you can find it. There will be another post by me after setup on Thursday giving out the final details of our stream.

Quick question: will the webcasts be archived? Unfortunately I won't be able to watch live since I'm working Friday and Saturday. If not, I guess I'll just have to wait for individual match videos after the event.

[tickspe15]

Yes, webcasts will be archived and posted on the blue alliance.

Here are the links for the events webcast.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/indiana-robotics-invitational-2014
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/indiana-robotics-invitational-2014-full-field