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So, the final match of IRI just ended, and it was an epic match, not to mention many of the other great matches during elminations. It's not often you see a finals match that's 5th vs 6th. Congratulations to the winning alliance: 2826, 1114, 245, and 4334.

Thoughts? Comments? I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed watching the eliminations. I was amazed by the loss of the 1st seeded alliance, and loved the triples done by the alliance of 1023, 51, 33, and 330.

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So happy that we just won!!!:)

I'm sorry, watching 4334 not only stop 148 from crossing the field, but pushing off the bridge and into the penalty lane, was worth the price of admission. That was the best piece of defensive driving I've ever seen, rookie or otherwise.

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Congrats to the Eh Wave for winning, and to every team that played for making IRI incredible to watch.

The chat on the webcast on The Red Alliance exploded at that time ATA pushed Robowranglers over the co-op bridge and across the field. What an amazing little robot, and intense driving.

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Being on an alliance with some of the hottest teams in Michigan was a fantastic experience. Thanks to 3322, 67, and 217 for a great time! Also, thanks to 3940 and 3357 for providing us with our first on-field triple balance of the year!

Congrats to 2826, 1114, 4334, and 245! Wave and the Simbots have been 2 of my favorite teams for a long time, and 4334 has a lot of potential in them. I hope that watching 4334 attract the attention of major powerhouses will convince many teams, rookie and veteran, to think about playing a specific role when designing their robots. It's unfortunate that 245 didn't get to play, but they still performed well this weekend.

Overall, I had a fantastic weekend. It was awesome meeting so many new people and I'm really sad that this was my last IRI that I will be attending as a student.

Also, I'm sorry 217 that we couldn't Co-op Balance with you during our match together. I hope we didn't ruin your hopes of seeding high. ;)

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I can honestly say that everyone on our team had a BLAST at IRI this year. Despite our numerous robot failures, we persevered to have 2 matches in which we were fully functional (that's just life sometimes). In one of those matches we got to beat our friends 233 from Florida (an incredible honor when they play off of Florida soil, not as impressive on it haha). In the other match, we were clearly the underdogs, we were playing against 118, 2056 and 1538. However, due to some good strategy and a bit of luck, we managed to pull out the win. That was the highlight of my driving career!! Defeating a division champion alliance captain and first pick in the same match was amazing!

On a different note, because the robot was not working as well as it had in the past, and because we had such a small group, we were able to just relax and have fun! On friday night we went bowling, and did this laser game, where you have to dodge lasers like CIA agents (hard to explain, but extremely fun). Plus, we were able to witness the absolute insanity that was the IRI elimination matches, and I can honestly say I have never seen more exciting FIRST matches.

We are honored to have been able to "get our feet wet" this year, and hope to come back next year with a fully functional robot.

And congratulations to 2826, 1114, 4334, and 245! That was a wonderful alliance!!

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I watched from the webcast, and I was absolutely thrilled watching this. I'm so sad that I wasn't able to attend in person, but two members from our team did end up going (and supposedly got to know members from 4334?).

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I think in my years of going to IRI I have never seen the top seeded alliance ever win. Has the top seeded alliance ever won IRI before?

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Yes. 2010. :)

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And, even then, as 359 can attest, it took a *long* time to do it! :)

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I was pulling for the 2nd seeded alliance to go all the way, seeing the results of quals 104. They were close too, if only they got their triple balance to work....

It was a great IRI to watch, and I loved how most of the eliminations went to a rubber match.

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We were watching with 2587 at their practice area getting ready for Texas Robot Roundup next week. We were biased towards the Texas teams but it was still amazing to see 4334 stop 148 like that. Just daring to catch the bridge was impressive to than push them back over it was unthinkable.

The number of qualification round triple balances was awesome. I still wish more off seasons would allow this. It's one of the most challenging and dramatic moves that we have ever had in an FRC game. I don't think anything pulls you to the edge of your seat faster than seeing two alliances triple balance only separated by one point and having a human player flip the match with a two point basket. That was astonishing.

Congratulations to Wave, Simbotics, ATA, and Adambots, that was an awesome run to watch.

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All this hype about the 4334 and 148 interaction. I just don't get it. It was probably the worst attempt at a co-op balance I saw all season.

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lol. We were joking about this a few other times as teams lingered on the co-op bridge. (I think someone lost comm on it at on)e point? It is a bit of an odd feeling.

In other news, 1640 always lo ves IRI. This was our best performance yet, and we always learn so much. Thank you to 45, 234 and 1024 and all the volunteers for an awesome event (and another fun field breakdown) and all the amazingly inspirational teams!

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I couldn't agree more, and yes, this was us at IRI. Our human player scored a two-pointer as we were triple-balancing. We were all hooked on the bridge hoping that the stinger worked, so we didn't even notice. However, we won the match by two points, ultimately thanks to the human player. What a rush!

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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.

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Haha I was laughing at that. :yikes: that WAS pretty amazing!
BTW, here's the video of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWCh4sFqgtQ

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Would you happen to have your hockey stick footage of qualification match 65?
3322 - 1023 - 125

Thanks,
~Matt

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Does anyone know where I can get video footage from IRI? I know they were videotaping the matches, but I don't know if that was just for live stream only.
I'd like to show it to rookie team members, as well as get my hands on some good footage of our robot -- we've got an interview coming up, and they want to see some match film!
Thanks for your help!

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The Boilemaker matches for you guys are here

Queen City here

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Here's the archived footage. It's hosted at ihigh.com - the same site that did Boilermaker and will webcast and archive the CAGE Match.