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Previously discussed here

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

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Nothing official in that thread though.

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Fingers crossed, it's replaying the 2013 game.

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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.

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

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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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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

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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.

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Yep.

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what does these columns represent?

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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...

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So I've quickly set up an IRI Prescout spreadsheet here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?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!!!!

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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.

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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?

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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.

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

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As in quality/accuracy of the shot?

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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) or a 20+ ft over-the-truss pass to the human player in the offensive end?

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Or a pass across the field from one human player to the other? (175 in Archimedes elims)

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

You're welcome!

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.

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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.

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

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

Thanks!

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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).

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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.

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Both of those are banned.

Youtube works, ustream alternates between being banned and unbanned.

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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.

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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.

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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/sh...hreadid=130014

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

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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.

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

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When does the match schedule usually get released.

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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.

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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.

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Ok thank you very much!!

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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.

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

Thanks!

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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.

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

Here are the links for the events webcast.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/indian...itational-2014
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/indian...014-full-field