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So, when will volunteer assignments be sent out? Last year I got my assignment the Sunday before the event. Maybe this year we can get it a few days sooner?

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Does anyone know if the IMAX theater at the Indiana State Museum will be showing The Dark Knight? :rolleyes:

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Doubtful as they usually only show educational IMAX films, but the IMAX on the south side of Indy will absolutely be playing the movie. Pretty sure it's sold out already though, at least for opening night. Look up Kerasotes 16 though.

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Will there be a midnight showing? I know Bacon would attend

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On Thursday night at 12:02 a.m. there is a showing of 'The Dark Night' at the KeraSotes on 4325 S. Meridian Street, Indianapolis, IN 46217


If you go to fandango.com, you should be able to buy tickets in advance.

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Here's a map link for directions to the theater.

Hmm Saturday night or Sunday morning? Decisions, decisions....

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Hey guys,

I'm working on a media project about FIRST and I was hoping that at IRI I would be able to interview some people about their team, FIRST, the game this year, and how FIRST has inspired you. If you would be interested in being interviewed please PM me and I'll give you some of the questions that would be asked. Oh and...if you see a girl in a yellow cape from 1675 with a video camera taking video of random teams, this is what it's for, she's not crazy and hasn't lost her team. :rolleyes:

Renee

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Is anyone up for t-shirt trading? Most everyone on my team has a Thunderchickens shirt except me. I'm feeling a little left out.

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I'm up for T-shirt trading if anyone will exchange for a 1675 UPS shirt... or chocolate chip cookies...

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Hey guys, IRI is so sooooon! Yay!!!

I live in Indy for my internship and want to check if there are any emergency transportation / housing situations. Just drop me a pm or something.

- Eugenia

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Eugenia, will you be volunteering again this year then?

Re: 2008 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

Team 1675 is really excited to be going to IRI:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvwKbgkNPP4

I made this with pictures from previous IRI events, it's a bit messy because I was just making sure the computer was working but Kevin told me I had to put it up anyways. Thank you for the pictures! I'll make an after IRI one as well :)

Renee

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Renee, I love it!

The music is great and the pictures you used had me laughing out loud. Great job.

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Y did you have you use all the pics that make me look stupid lol that was awesome!

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Just checked the NASA TV schedule...

IRI will be broadcast on the Public and Education channels on Saturday from 9 to 5 (Eastern). Awesome!

(I'm just not used to waking up at 6AM on a Saturday...)

Good luck to all teams attending, by the way.

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IRI Volunteers should have been notified via email about the volunteer assignements. I beleive there was a problem with email forwarding this year and I may not have received everyone's request. If there were people interested in volunteering who did not recieve and email from me confirming their assignement, please let me know ASAP and I will add you to the list.

Thanks and can't wait to see you all this week!

-Brant

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MMMMMMM, IRI soooooo close.......grr 10 hour drive

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Will IRI footage finally be uploaded to TBA or SOAP this year?

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SOAP won't personally be there. But if someone can provide the videos to us, I am sure I can bug Matt to put them up. =)

Re: 2008 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

The matches will be recorded at the very least, I don't know if someone is going to be uploading them immediately but they should be uploaded eventually.

Also, if you're interviewed during the event on camera, don't worry too much about it. We're trying a gameday style coverage where we'll produce a few videos throughout the day and play them, and also pick the top 5 plays of the day. Stay tuned.

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I am going to send the list to Greg Marra to be put on TBA later that night, or throughout the day if I can get internet access.

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I'm kinda scared. :ahh:

This is the first year I'm finally going to make it to IRI, & the opening day (Friday) is going to have a full moon that night!!

w00000!!!!

4 days to go!!!!
:D

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Is anyone going to be putting the video up on TBA? I won't even be able to watch the web cast as I'll be on vacation.

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..

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man i cant wait to go, first year for Team 1592 and its gonna take us 2 days to get there
but whenw e do, we gonna be real happy cause we gonna be stuck in two cars for like 15 some hours hahaha

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Not to let the cat out of the bag, but there is a new coverage style some people thought of and I guess are going to tryout at IRI, FIRST Gameday, or something similar.

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Er, yeah, this is in addition to the stuff that's usually done with an Emcee and Game Announcer, incase that caused any confusion.

Re: 2008 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

Sorry, I was just answering acdcfan's question with ryan's previous post. didn't mean to cause any confusion. There is a 2 character minimum on posts.

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Question about SOAP and Webcast:

I will be attending the IRI event and can provide the SOAP video recordings and upload them to the web. However, I haven't heard anything about a webcast. Is there going to be one? If not, is there a demand for one and should I also provide that as well? You guys let me know. Thanks.

-Mike
Motorola
Team 111

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Just wanted to let everyone know that 341, 217 & 122 will be showing matches from IRI at the Farnborough International Air Show in the UK this coming weekend.

Hopefully IRI will inspire a whole new genration of FIRST teams in the UK for 2009.

Don't want to take the thread off topic, so if you want to learn more about Farnborough the link is here

Just thought you might want to know that we will be watching over in England. Good luck to all of the teams at IRI this weekend.

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I totally forget that you were going to attend IRI this year. Please send a PM to Chris Fultz to find out more details about this. He should be able to direct you to the right path.

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So, is the team list on the IRI site the finalized list?

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You can add Team 70 to the list of attendees, filling one of those *pending* spots. This was verified by an IRI planner, as well as JackN in the IRI FF thread.

Last I had been told, the IRI guys were still trying to fill that last *pending* spot. No word yet.

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I just finished a video based on the Where Amazing Happens commercials for the NBA. It uses pictures frm the past few years of IRI. If anyone has any other pictures I should add, PM me with a link to them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfiQ7CI-i5U

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We have finally solidified the 72 team field for the 2008 IRI. We are sorry that this took so long to get the final list together.

1 Juggernauts
16 Bomb Squad
27 Team RUSH
33 Killer Bees
45 TechnoKats
47 Chief Delphi
48 Delphi E.L.I.T.E.
67 Heroes of Tomorrow
68 Truck Town Thunder
70 More Martians
71 Team Hammond
93 NEW Apple Corps
101 Striker
107 Holland Christian Team R.O.B.O.T.I.C.S.
111 Wildstang
116 Epsilon Delta
118 Robonauts
135 Penn Robotics
141 WOBOT
171 Extreme Engineering
217 ThunderChicken
233 The PINK Team
234 Cyber Blue
292 PantherTech
330 Beach Bots
364 Team Fusion
368 Team Kika Mana
461 Westside Boiler Invasion
469 Las Guerrillas
494 Martians
503 Frog Force
573 The MechWarriors
829 Warren Robotics “Digital Goats”
830 Rat Pack
832 Roswell High School
868 TechHOUNDS
876 Thunder Robotics
888 Robotiators
910 Foley Freeze
931 Perpetual Chaos
968 RAWC
980 ThunderBots
987 High Rollers
1008 Team Lugnut
1018 RoboDevils
1024 Kil-A-Bytes
1038 Thunderhawks
1094 River City Robots Channel Cats
1114 Simbotics
1126 SparX
1243 Dragons
1327 Sbotz
1477 Northside Roboteers
1501 T.H.R.U.S.T.
1503 Spartonics
1519 Mechanical Mayhem
1529 Southport CyberCards
1592 Bionic Tigers
1625 Winnovation
1646 Precision Guessworks
1675 The Ultimate Protection Squad
1720 PhyXTGears
1731 Fresta Valley Robotics
1739 Chicago Knights
1741 Red Alert Robotics
1747 HBR
1760 Robo-Titans
1902 Exploding Bacon
2056 Patriotics
2171 RoboDogs
2194 Fondy Fire
2377 C Company

May all attendees be safe and secure in their travels to Indianapolis.

Sincerely,
Andy Baker

Edit... teams 70 and 1739 were late additions. Thanks for these two teams stepping up and filling out the 72 team roster.

Re: 2008 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

That's one of the best homemade FIRST videos I've seen. I'm pumped to be where "Amazing Happens" in just a couple of days.

Re: 2008 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

that is one heck of a list of teams competing from top to bottom. Really wish I could have attended. Stuck in Dallas. :(
So where's 25 and 254? **off the top of my head**

Re: 2008 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

25 never applied; 254 dropped out some time ago.

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If there is no internet available at the event, if anyone has a wireless set up on their laptop (like AT&T card), if I could borrow it, that would be great, I will be relaying scores to TBA hopefully every hour through the weekend.

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I can bring my laptop.
I've got a Verizon Card.

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Awesome, I doubt I will have wireless access through the school to use my laptop, so this will work out well.

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254 is currently being held hostage some where in the southeast.
mike d

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Call the Segway SWAT team.

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even that wont be enough to help the poofs now.
mike d

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Well the Bionic Tigers will be leaving tomorrow morning for the 2 day trip up north. Cant wait to see you all there.

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Hey folks,

When you're not out on the competition field doing some stupendous scoring with your real robots...

Or if you are one of those talented folks who put the drivers behind the joysticks; but are also looking for a chance prove you too have the right stuff....

Visit the IRI's "IRI Expo - Companies and Colleges" area near the practice field and the pits. There you should find an installation of the 6-player, Overdrive simulation (aka 5thGear ).

Here is a photo The 2008 NASA/VCU FRC Regional 5thGear World Champions:)

This is only 5thGear's second public appearance since it was a big hit on the NASA/VCU FRC Regional's Technology Row. Who knows how long it might be before it makes its next appearance - You had better grab a couple of friends to form a 3-person alliance and strike this weekend while the iron is hot.

And - In a new, IRI-only, wrinkle - The alliance with the highest 5thGear score when the Pig-Kissing contest donations are tallied up, gets to deposit a pair of twenties into the Pig-Kissing bucket of their choice, complements of Dave and Blake! Use those two Andrew Jacksons to put your nominee over the top!

Blake (I wish I could be there) Ross

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Well, it appears I may have a couple extra RUSH shirts* lying around here(2)... Anyone interested in trading? More specifically anyone from teams 67, 71, 217, 233, 469, 968, 1114 to name a few, although any other offers will defintiely be considered. Feel free to PM or IM me if you are interested.

approximately 40 hours until I'm heading down to Indiana!

*Disclaimer: The shirts I have are larges, and there's only two.

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PINK has left the building... see ya tomorrow night.
mike d

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Team 987 brought about ten shirts to trade/handout...
See you guys tomorrow!

Keaton

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Those Kamen boys are at it again. I just received this letter to pass on to the community.

Re: 2008 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

Smoke on the water song coming this time? Haha. Looking forward to everything. I'll actually get to relax this IRI.

Re: 2008 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

Has Parker stumbled upon something? Looks like there may be a few clues in that letter from the band.

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Gee, it would appear that they couldn't keep their speed under 55.

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IRI Text Message and Twitter Notifications

Kyle Love will be providing IRI event updates semi-live throughout the Indiana Robotics Invitational. For those of you busy in the pits, or unable to get out to Indianapolis, use The Blue Alliance's notification system to stay up to date on match results!

This is the same system that was employed at The Championship Event. If you want to receive text messages for IRI, you must sign up again!

Sign up to receive Texts or E-mails here:

http://thebluealliance.net/tbatv/notifications/

Follow The Blue Alliance on Twitter:

http://twitter.com/thebluealliance

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I'll be recording IRI, hopefully I'll be able to get some matches up as quickly as possible, no guarentees. Hopefully I can get an internet connection at the venue (doubt it). Otherwise i'll try and upload some when i am at the hotel.

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Jon,

If your (or anyone else's... ) camera is mobile and you happen to get a quick break in your primary recording job; do you think you might be able to catch one or two matches of the Overdrive simulation/game (aka 5th Gear) going on over by the IRI Expo area?

Dave, David and I would love decent recordings of a couple of the matches played there.

Blake

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2194, 93, and 1675 have all arrived safely at the Suburban, near IRI. It's fun having lots of teams on the bus, as well as having enough tools to fix the pneumatics on the bus... :P See everyone tomorrrow!!!

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The venue is set up and ready to go. Many robots are already in the building and appear to be in great condition. Competition will be amazing!

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The South Carolina contingent (a friend and me) have arrived safely to the Super 8. This ought to be intense.

If anyone needs an extra set of hands or two for anything, just holler. I work for buttons (or shirts. Or money in other kiss the pig contestants' buckets. ;))

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is there a webcast this year, and if so, where is the link

im guessing it ight be on wildstang's website sometime tomorow right?

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I'm pumped and ready to go!

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http://indianaroboticsinvitational.org/iri/?s=webcast

I've had this link on my favorites for weeks...

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Matches will be going up on TBA during the day, check out: http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv...hp?eventid=194

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Has a match list been posted anywhere? I am curious as to what my team is in for

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The webcast looks good.

The timer bar at the bottom is translucent up till the last 15 seconds of each match. The value of the chromakey might need to be adjusted to correct this. :D

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Anybody got a match list handy. The Blue Alliance hasn't updated since Match 26.

Wish I was there...

Mannie

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If the company I work for (and I at home) have removed RealPlayer from our computers because of security concerns, does anyone kow of a way to view the webcast without using RealPlayer?

When I followed the URL for the Wildstang webcast, and received a prompt about how to download the RealPlayer if I don't have it already; I figured that the video stream will be encoded in a Realplayer format and that I am out of luck if I want to use a non-Realplayer viewer. :( I'm hoping someone can suggest an alternative approach.

Blake

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I'm using windows media player classic

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rtsp://live.wildstang.org:554/broadcast/iri.rm

open this with real player for the webcast

Re: 2008 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

windows media player classic is part of the quicktime alternative install. See http://codecguide.com/about_qt.htm for download.

Mannie

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Did 217 change drivers? They seem to be performing differently.

and LOL to the referee laps.

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Are the referees doing laps for a specific reason?

Andy Baker was the head ref in Oklahoma City this year and he had all of us referees do laps whenever there was a penalty free match. We tried to run them a different way each time! Since it was mostly rookie teams at that regional, they all thought it was very funny and worked really hard to have penalty free matches!

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Seems to be the same thing here. Remember who the head ref is...

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Updating again.

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Is something wrong with Stang's gripper? In the two matches I have seen of them, they haven't seemed to attempt to pick up any balls.

Great competition so far.

Re: 2008 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

If 330 seeds 1st... promise you'll pick west coast teams...? :o

A 330+968+980 or 330+987+368 Combo would be amazing! :)

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Seems to be an error in Match 52 on TBA - lists 368 as playing both Match 52 and Match 53 (we were in 53 only).

Hope everyone's having fun up there!


- Stuck in Hawaii... :(

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Mannie,

Thanks - But color me confused/noobish.

The video stream from the only URL I know about (http://live.wildstang.org/iri.php) is in RealPlayer format.

Why would I care to download a QuickTime alternative installation's Windows Media Player Classic component(s)? I could understand downloading a RealPlayer-enabled alternative version of QuickTime, if one exists; but why WMP???

Blake
FYI - I have versions of both WMP and QT on both my work conputer and my home computer.

Re: 2008 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

I was just reacting to someone's post about using Window Media Player classic. Just in case you needed it. I'm using Real, but I'm at home.

Sorry for the confusion.

Re: 2008 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

Same thing for matches 8 and 9.

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Yep.
217 treats IRI as a transition point between years. The student leaders for next year take over, and graduating seniors aren't supposed to drive. Unless I'm mistaken, Mike Copioli is coaching while Paul MC's.

From what I saw, the new drivers were doing all right (Their only loss at the hands of 1114), but there will be a difference.

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is it not letting you watch it anymore? my time ran out and now it wont let me watch the rest of the matches...
could someone let me know how match 66 turned out. my team sparx 1126 is in it.

thanks!

Re: 2008 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

I would be cautious looking at TBA. There appears to be a few errors the team numbers and scores. I don't think 1732 played in match 45...

Is there any where to see the rankings online?

Re: 2008 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

Quote of the Day:

"The IRI is running out of balls!"

Yep. Where the Egos come to play!

Re: 2008 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

Same thing happened to me twice, I just closed out of it then went back in. It worked for me twice, but I don't know what the actual problem is.

Good Luck

Re: 2008 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

anyone know where or if there is a list of the ranking of the teams?

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let me know what errors there are, and I'll get them fixed.

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Matches 8+9 have the same teams. Team 368 has back-to-back matches with a different set of teams, not sure why (suspect one is really 968, but not sure; didn't note match numbers). A couple of scores are odd (literally--as examples, the highest scores for teams 931 and 876). I think some teams are mis-numbered; e.g. 72 isn't there, but shows up in a match (I think that's the number).

Edit: Found some more... Match 70, who are 968107 and 12? They also have a zero score. Match 71 hopefully did not end in a 0-0 tie, but TBA has that happening. 82 and 83 have the same blue alliance and one team the same on red.

Re: 2008 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

I can calculate the ranking if someone can provide me with the match scores in the following format: _(match, blue1, blue2, blue3, red1, red2, red3, bluescore, bluepen, redscore, redpen)

Re: 2008 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

There are alot, ALOT of mistakes on TBA, don't judge by it!

-2149 did not attend event
-qual 18, blue didn't have 0, nor did they lose.

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This is kind of WEIRD...

We got a message through our website from

Mark Leon

His message was:

I need to talk to your technical POC regarding the Saturday Uplink onto NASA TV. I will be arriving late Friday Evening.

He posted his phone number. Sounds like he is trying to contact some at IRI maybe for a video feed? If anyone in this thread knows about this, send me a PM. or and e-mail. I got his nasa e-mail and his phone.

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It's going to be ugly, though...

Last I heard, the top 4 are:

16 (6-0)
330 (5-1) (leads in toughest schedule)
67 (5-1)
71 (5-1)

1114 is 9th with 68 in 10th.

Then again, 330 and 71 take on 16 and 67 tomorrow. Source is at the event...

Re: 2008 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

That is going to be an exciting match.

Re: 2008 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

Did anyone videotape the talent show? My camera died.......Thanks

Re: 2008 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

Is the webcast not working for anyone else this morning?

Re: 2008 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

Thw webcast is not working for me either... Is anyone getting a feed?

Re: 2008 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

I couldn't get the webcast to work either, but it IS on NASA TV (Channel 283 on DirectTV).

Re: 2008 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

I got a response from David Kelly that Wildstang didn't have someone come in yet to do the webcasting today. They might not do it today at all, so right now NASA is your only option.

Re: 2008 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

Hmmm, that would be very unfortunate. I asked off work special to watch and I don't have NASA tv.

Re: 2008 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

Here is a ustream.tv feed i set up: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iri-2008