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They're killing me here!

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Seriously though. It's so hard to look at this list and whittle it down to less than 75 teams in any objective manner whatsoever.

Try to, you'll be knocking out teams with multiple medals this season, teams capable of 2+ stacks/match, teams with Einstein banners, historical IRI attendees. It's crazy the kind of quality across the board this year, as more teams this year had the opportunity to succeed at the championship level than ever before.

I don't envy the IRI crew's job whatsoever right now.

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There is probably a lot of thought and that goes into making the acceptance list for IRI. They could give an eta on when it could be done but they probably want to make sure it is right, and I don't think anyone is getting paid to do this. So I am assuming that there is a lot of extra time and dedication being put in right now to making this list.

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Like Santa Claus. You make the list and check it twice!

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Hey, IRI committee, the suspense is killing me. Your making this entirely to hard and time consuming. Get a pack or 2 of small index cards. Write the team numbers on them. Pick the top 30 OPR teams. Put them to the side. Take the remaining cards over to the stairs and throw them towards the top. Then take the top 30 OPR cards. Starting at the top of the stairs pick up cards from the top down until you have as many teams as you want to invite. This can be over and done with in an hour or less. You can post the results tonight.

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Or they could take their time and continue to make IRI the meaningful event it is.

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We plan to post the invitation list around noon Thursday (28th).

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I see Chris Fultz posted...aaaand we wait some more. But I'm glad you guys are arriving at a decision after this tough list. Can't wait to see it tomorrow!

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That feeling when you're more excited for the IRI acceptance list than college acceptance letters...

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Oh man today is the day!!! :D :ahh: Thanks for the time that you put into the decision IRI committee, it's a meaningful event because you put in the time to make it meaningful. But sooo exited for the list!!! :D :ahh: :eek:

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I did not mean for my post to be take negatively. I looked at the application list and can objectively fill about 1/2 the slots. Below there, the choices become extremely hard. I don't know how to do it. Which led to my conclusion that hell you might as well throw the cards up the stairs. So after the list is released , it would be just as interesting to here from the committee just how they approached this humongous problem.

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I really don't take this negatively. I really think this is the 'sad' truth that, depending on next year, something will have to change and what ever it is it will be a hard decision to make. You doing this really shows how hard it is for the committee doing this and why it may be taking longer than expected. 'Throwing cards up the stairs' is something that shouldn't be happening, I hope, and shows that this committee, when getting to the last maybe half of the teams, really has the check every little detail and go over every team there much more than 1 or 2 times. This committee, I don't know what is going on there but TAKE YOUR TIME! Better to take more time than say, "Well they had 1 more point in average in their first regional over the other team, lets pick them."; I'd rather have them saying, "They improved the most the season and shown a lot of commitment, lets pick them."

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You know, the IRI committee can solve the selection process with an IRIsplit.

Just Sayin'

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Too Soon...

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R2OC is the week after IRI. They just need to change the name to IRI (Illinois Robotics Invitational)

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The Invitation List is posted in another thread.

I won't go into much detail about the "process", except to say we look at Regional / District performance, through-season improvement, CHP performance, draft order, event rankings, other data and uniqueness.

The only guaranteed spots each year are the previous year winning alliance and the SIlent Auction spots. The Host Teams are evaluated against the same criteria as all others and are not guaranteed a spot.