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I'm pretty sure he's referring to the elimination match where the 68 / 469 / 125 alliance won, while all six robots were on the bridge.

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Yeah, I guess you're right. But our match was still very similar and exhilarating ;) I guess that's what I really meant. Both were incredible to see.

On another note, nothing makes your heart sink more than realizing that you were one basket away from being in the top 8 and playing in the elims (had we scored one more basket in our first match, we would have won, advancing our seed). But, we ended up in 16th at the end of the day and went home with smiles a great time behind us. We were very happy and extremely honored to be there in the first place :D

Next year...

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I'd like to say thanks to 469, 125, and 1676 for accepting our invitations. Also to all the teams, volunteers, and sponsors. With them, IRI would never be a possibilty.

Congrats on the win 2826, 1114, 4334, and 24, And I can't wait to see you all again next year!


I'd just like to clarify that 469's Inbounder didn't score one 2-point shot. He scored two of them :D

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Losing communication on the bridge would have been Team RUSH 27. It was the match we did our first Triple Balance ever (and we didn't even practice it on the practice field) and we were going over to get in our chain for the triple. Yet just when we put the bridge down, we died. It was the last 30 sec so it really looked like we were just sitting there waiting for another robot to go on the coopertition bridge with us. What was wrong? No one wanted to do it with us??!:) We gained comms at 20 sec and continued to score our triple. But yes, it was a very odd feeling sometimes not going to that center bridge.

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Was the cause ever determined?

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No. It was only one time this weekend and we were too excited we forgot to check. I think when we hit the bridge something hardware wise went down cause we still had a green light on our driver station and we also had full connection and robot code from the FMS

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An amusing (albeit admittedly useless) fact about the sixth seeded team pointed out to me by jmiller48167 if you add up all the teams individually on the alliance team number they all add up to 6 (3+3=6, 1+0+2+3=6, 5+1=6 and 3+3+0=6). Somehow I have a feeling Jim Zondag intended this to happen.

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HA! I didn't even notice this until it was pointed out to me by Gary! Not a huge fan of the 6's, but I sure loved our alliance. :)

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Sadly, I was without internet access during the entirety of IRI and I wish I could see some of the matches... has anyone recorded the matches from the season and possibly uploaded them to YouTube or another site? I'm sure not only myself but many others here on ChiefDelphi would love to watch the matches!

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Here you go! You'll have to sift through a bit if you are looking for a specific match though.

[Protip] Make sure you are watching the 2012 IRI. My parents clicked on the 2011 archive when they were trying to watch it live.... They thought they were watching the lunchtime fundraiser, as they had heard the announcer talking about it earlier. It took them about 5 Logomotion matches for them to clue in...... [/Protip]

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Thank you for honoring us with your invitation.

This being our first IRI, my goal was modest: Don't embarrass yourself. I'm sure we did that on a team level (maybe not so much on a personal level...:p ).

The level of play was truly astounding - more than Archimedes this year.

The venue was a nice setup, lots of room, plenty of seating, Lovely lovely air conditioning, and no far walks to get anywhere.

It was really great seeing so many friends and colleagues, many of whom I hadn't met in person before. Probably the best part of the trip, except for the DSK show Friday. I sure hope someone got that epic on videotape somewhere.

The only less-than-ideal aspect of the whole weekend - aside from the 13-hour drive each way - was the food for sale. While very reasonably priced, the selection was limited (pizza or hot dog). I did survive, however.:rolleyes:

A huge thank you to everyone who had a hand in making this happen. I know what it takes to run an event of this magnitude, and to have it run so very, very problem-free was just a joy to witness.

And we never lost Comm the whole weekend...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-jQX...hannel&list=UL

Your wish has been granted.

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Saying hi to old friends and meeting new ones is usually one of my favorite parts of IRI every year. Unfortunately I haven't been able to do much of that the last few years (thanks to the latter part of your comment). I was hoping to meet you this year and I actually saw you walking by at one point. Going through my head at that time was, "hey there's Don. Introduce yourself and say hi. Crap, you only have 25 minutes to get to your hotel, eat lunch, and get back in time for the afternoon DSK rehersal. I'll see him later or tomorrow - yeah, that the ticket."

Oh well, it was a very busy weekend. There's always next year. I'm glad you enjoyed the show, at least.

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Here is our field-side video from quarterfinal 4, match 1. Taken from our hockey stick camera. It's 125-centric, but you can see both of red's shots go in and both teams balancing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqJJnTFFEmg

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The video doesn't show how loud that place got after that second shot went in. Amazing match. One of the greatest matches that I have every seen in my four years of FRC.