2009 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

2009 Indiana Robotics Invitational
http://indianaroboticsinvitational.o...e/Welcome.html

July 31 - August 1 (Friday - Saturday)

72 Teams

Applications Open May 1
Application and Invitation Process Similar to 2008

Lawrence North High School, Indianapolis, IN (Same as 2008)

Watch www.indianaroboticsinvitational.org and www.chiefdelphi.com for updates.

If your team wants to be on an "IRI Blast" distribution, please send an email to -

chrisfultz@att.net

With the following information -
Team Number
Contact Name
Email Address

Please only 1 individual per team so the distribution list is manageable.
Be sure you send an email address that is monitored on a regular basis.
(The preference is for this to be a mentor or team captain.)

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I want to go this year for the first time ever. Don't know how we'd put up against all the insane teams in the midwest....but we'd bring it.

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well i say eat the fear and show us up. :cool:

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...and New England, and the West Coast, and the South, and Canada...

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Oh dear.....

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maybe we will be accepted this year.....:p

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...and England?

:yikes:

Wetzel

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IRI is on my birthday this year. That's a nice gift :p

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I have to bring this up...I wonder if fish boy will be back, for the 4th (I think) year in a row?

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I'll be there!

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Guess what your getting for your birthday,son.

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Dangit, I've gotta get to one of these off-season things, and IRI would be my first choice. I heard there was a mentors-only round (or something like that) at either this, or another, event.

With the high possibility of 964 not even existing past our regional, I'm wondering if there are any area teams I can ride up with?

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We gave up the mentor round so we could have more 'regular' team matches. Although fun, the mentor rounds took about 2 times as long to play as student rounds (i wonder why ... ?). When we bumped up to 72 teams for the IRI, the mentor matches had to go.

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Awwwwwww. :(

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Unfortunately I won't be able to make it this year. :( It was going to be iffy with finances anyway; with the date change I'm already committed elsewhere. Hope everyone has fun, it's a great event.

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These dates are looking good. Thanks for getting the info out, guys.

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is it going to be a full invitational this year or do indiana teams have a spot?

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They will probably choose like they did it last year. (aka invitational)

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Do rookies sometimes get an invite?

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yes, everyone interested should apply.

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Everyone interested should apply.

There is a process we go thru to determine the teams, but it as many variables.

And, we are going to do it a little different this year to avoid some problems with the past few years process.

More later.

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If Team 1094 is selected, Fish Boy will be honored to serve for the 4th year in a row.

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To the powers that be, a suggestion for rule change. During auto don't let ps shoot but make balls scored by bot alittle extra. Give programmers something to shoot for during off season.(bad pun)

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EXCELLENT Idea ... however I don't know how difficult it would be to integrate that change into the scoring system.

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I like this idea (mainly because it helps limit the mess of balls on the floor from overexuberant PS's early in the match), but to be fair, I'd make sure PS's were still permitted to human load their bots in auto.

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Make Orbit Balls equal double. (Or Triple, or Quadruple, or etc...)
Just have scorers double the count of every ball scored at the end of Auto (Or Triple, or Quadruple, or etc...)
(Ie: A team scored 5 balls, put 10, 15, 20, etc. in the scoring hand-helds.)
-Shouldn't be that hard to track, & even if some team(s) have insane amounts scored that come into question, just count them real quick (manually) during the break between Auto & Tele-op - Could delay a match a minute or so, but if teams are (repeatedly) scoring sucessfully in Auto-mode by the IRI rolls around (which I would like to see teams aim for), it's worth it.

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One advantage of moving to SW Michigan is that I am slightly closer to IRI. :)

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It all sounds good, but there's the whole problem of MRI being trademarked...

I'm already getting excited about IRI. I mean, how can you not get excited about seeing pigs getting kissed, first rate teams from across the globe, enhanced rule sets, and most of all Albert the Road Barrel?

I third the request to have more heavily weighted scoring in auto as long as balls are not scored directly by human players.

See you all at BMR,

-q

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I really want to try to make it out to IRI this year. It's been something I wanted to do since I was a freshman.

Maybe we'll see some awesome Game change like.... CARPET!

I know the guys in Indiana have already thought about it....

Re: 2009 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

OK, here is the list of rule changes for the 2009 IRI:











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My team (2604 rookies last year) were invited, but we barely scraped up the cash for nations let alone IFI, thats funny. I want to go this year at least as a spectator, I'll see i can organize my team to go.

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My team has been trying to be excepted for the past three years. Even though our track record in michigan has been pretty good, we always seem to be on the waiting list. So what all is taken into account for entry? Is it because we haven't gone to Atlanta except our rookie year, the only year we have been excepted?

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Very funny Chris. I think this is about the earliest I have seen the "what are we going to do different at IRI" discussion...

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Does that mean there will be a serpentine draft this year at IRI? Blasphemy!

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I'm not on the IRI selection committee, but I've seen the process. Given that there are many more applicants than there is room for, the criteria for making "the list" have to be pretty severe.

Historically, there have been a few major considerations. First and foremost is location. Indiana teams get an automatic boost to their "IRI-worthiness" score. Then there's performance. How many awards, how many wins, that sort of thing.

The other big one is sort of a wild card: what does the team bring to IRI that makes it a more exciting and interesting event? Hall of Fame teams have prestige even in an "off" year trophy-wise. The Israelis a couple of years ago added an international flavor (Canadia almost doesn't count as international anymore). A team might also contribute technical resources or have a reputation for an amazing talent show entry.

If a team stands out among the other members of the FIRST community, it will definitely be taken into account.

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You know, it's moments like this when I look back and realize that Chris is probably the funniest person I've ever known. I look forward to seeing all of you at IRI.

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Oh, hey Chris did put a rule change in there. It's just really small font, look closely all ;)

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And we were so close from making sure that didn't happen in DC. So close!!!!!!!!

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That cannot be my typing. i would have misspled something.

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Yeah Anne, way to let the rest of us down! 2337 was our last hope that we'd be able to defend DC from the Midwest. :rolleyes:

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It's 2377 and we gave it our all. We managed to miss it by only 8 points eventhough we played that match down one team (through no fault of that team).

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I would disagree with this type of scoring as it gives an advantage to those robots that shoot over those which chose a different design/game play, and sensing the importance of the human player, chose a design to load a human player and let them do the scoring rather than score itself.

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I sent a test email tonight to everyone that i have received an address from.
if you think you have responded, but did not get an email tonight, please re-send the request.

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This year shark attack was told that we should think about applying and we definately are thinking:) . The main problem is money :mad: . We still have to raise a ton to get to nationals because it is $500 per person as it stands right now. :(

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We were talking about it tonight, and 179 is going to try to make some type of appearance. Ive never been to IRI, but i hear about it having liek crazy alliances never possible anywhere else.
wild winnothing?

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Florida Teams need to start thinking about a bus to Indiana this summer!

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...and indy teams need to start thinking about what teams to have over to those awesome IRI cookouts/parties...

If I remember right we had 1038 over the past two years (don't remember very well from '06) but I don't believe theyre comming to IRI this year.

Hmmm...

-q

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If we get accepted then we would hitch a ride with you guys.

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I think the kids would string me up if we didn't go.

They are already asking me about it. So we will be there, as long as we get accepted.

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Sounds like Florida is gonna be sending up some heat this year. That is if those Midwest teams don't get scared and not accept us. :yikes: (jk)

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Krunch and Bacon together?! For around 15 hours! I think Coach would go crazy! But for us, it would be a blast!

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Krunchy Swap Bacon that is PINK....with some tigers thrown in....now THAT would be a fun bus ride!!!

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Is it even possible to have that much fun!?

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man, we love IRI... I think they also factor in previous winners to the worthiness to come.

just a tip, lay off the horn on Albert this year, that got aggravating in the pits

might be an interesting time coming down this year if we get accepted (hope we do), then again the students had to foot the bill last year and we went without our team leader(he went on a motorcycle trip to alaska with his wife, that made her happy considering she almost never sees him during the build season). was a fun supprise for him when we won! (thanks 67 for picking us :D (i would also thank the other teams on our allience but i cant remember their #'s (sorry)))

oh and the other teams afraid of us Midwest teams, im gonna agree with lenny8 and say that you should show us up!

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Well, I can definitely say we're crossing our fingers for a good showing at Grand Valley. As Looking Forward said, we're right on the bubble, and that's a scary place to be. Maybe a regional win and a good showing at Michigan Champs will get us invited to IRI :P

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All you need is some sharks to stir up the waters!!:D But wouldn't a bus ride to Indiana take more like 30 hours? Jacksonville is like 7 hours, right?

Re: 2009 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

ya, considering it takes us a goodly amount of time to get there from Pontiac, florida would be murder... bus ride would be fun though...

definitely worth it though!:cool:

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1501 likes cookouts Q! lol, we'll bring our magic carpet if you bring your safety cone!!! (i have to put the magic carpet back together again though, it was demolished during prototype week!:eek: )

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According to Google maps it is a little over 17 hrs to the school from West Palm Beach Fl. Its only 1150 miles :p (Google may be a little optimistic though)

Re: 2009 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

1150 (Which can be rearranged to spell 1501! WOOT!!!) miles divided by an average of say 60 mph equals a ~19.1666666666666... hr ride

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I really hope your magic carpet is a drive train with a flat platform on top covered by a large oriental rug. That's an awesome idea.

Calling Ben Nelson, Calling Ben Nelson... please have Albert ready so 1501 will bring magic carpet...

-q

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since our team didn't win boiler we cant go to FIRST nationals:( but it will be great to be at IRI to show what we would have done at nationals ( seeing how iri is like nationals). Don't count out 1018:D we will be there!

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Well north east Ohio to Daytona Beach, Florida on family vacation took about 21 hours with the occasional stops for food and other 'business' and 23 hours to get to Huston on a bus back in '03 wasn't that bad. I am guessing that your trip will be be around 18-22 hrs. depending on how deep you are into Florida and how much of a lead foot your driver has :D .

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you pretty much nailed it agian Q! ...I'm still searchin for an oriental rug though! Here's the guts

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Here's my crazy plan so far!
Work on Friday until X time.
At X time, head to the airport to catch a plane to LA - Los Angeles, CA that is, not Louisiana. lol
Jump on red-eye plane in LA at around 11pm California time, & head to IRI*, arrival time: 6:05am local Indiana time. - *sleep on said plane ride. :cool:
Be at the gym by 7:30ish, just in time for the doors to open - or darn near close to that time!
Stay over Saturday night in Indiana & head back home to CT sometime Sunday.

What is there to do in Indiana on a Sunday that would take about 3-4 hours of my time until a flight home btw???

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I might show up Saturday, dunno yet. Anyone want to convince me?

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we'll just let dan drive us, we'll make it in 10

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Well, to continue to hype the stereotype -

You can sit and watch the corn grow,
Feed Pigs with Baker,
Milk cows with Ritchie,
Or eat something (just about anything) fried and then covered with thick sausage gravy.

Or you can go to the Children's Museum (largest in the world and awesome for kids and adults), the Indy 500 Museum and Track tours, The Zoo, The Eiteljorg Museum or the IMAX Theatre, just to name a few.

Personally, I would do the Museum or 500, but check the opening time for Sunday.

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I drive up to the tippy top of South Bend, Indiana(It's about 20 minutes from Michigan) and it only takes me around 20 hours.

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What do you mean we aren't coming, Q? :ahh: You guys too afraid to invite us this year????:D

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Team 2199 - LHS Robo-Lions will be applying this year (again.) Hopefully we'll be accepted this year. We have been a dominant force in 2 regionals and think we can bring some "game" to Indiana. We have been hearing about IRI from 888 since we started the team and it sounds like more fun than a regional and more "personal" than Atlanta. I for one am looking forward to a road trip this summer. Hope to see you all there!

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Well, that's what I heard...

Ummm... I don't know? If I were saying, no, but then again I didn't work on the robot this year. For once, I played spectator. :)

See you there then it sounds like,

-q

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Does anyone know how difficult to get accepted for an invitation.
2081 Has never attended before; we didn't qualify for Atlanta this year and we could only afford a single regional... What are the chances that we would be accepted granted that we apply early as possible?

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The IRI committee does a great job in creating a well rounded field. I would recommend that any team that is interested in attending submit an application.

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is the Hilton Indianapolis North a close hotel to the venue?

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It's only a mile away. You could easily walk to the high school if you wanted to.

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Definitely go to the 500 museum, open everyday except Christmas. It's not like most of the race tracks out there, it's quite unique.

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Calling all TechnoKats, please have surran wrap ready, just in case. ;)

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I dont think that it will be all that necessary this year. Since i wont be operating at IRI, i will have more time to keep an eye on Albert. I might even tweak him a little bit so there is a little more control. Haha. Im actually going to work on a musical horn for show :) But if you try to surran wrap him i will be forced to cover him in baby oil to make it half impossible. ;)

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Team 135 Will be there

Team 135
Penn Robotics

Contact: Jim Langdfeldt

robotics@phm.k12.in.us

Re: 2009 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

Fine then. Calling All TechnoKats, please prepare WD-40. Also we were thinking this year instead of surran wrapping it, we would take it outside and blend it in with real traffic cones (after turning it off). MWAHAHAHAHA

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How about we don't do it while I''m on the field this time.

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TechnoKats, I double dog dare you to suran wrap Samir to Albert :ahh: :D

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It's a trademark - Saran Wrap: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saran_(plastic)

I think I'm suffering from a case of curmudgeonliness. Sorry.

Re: 2009 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

Another IRI Email Blast "test email" was sent today.

If you have requested to be on the distribution and did not get it, please email me at chrisfultz@att.net.

thanks/

Re: 2009 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

Yes! We're totally getting an oriental rug before IRI!


And 2081, you guys should definitely apply!

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Does anyone know how to volunteer for the event? And I HIGHLY recommend that team 2081 apply, you guys were great.

Re: 2009 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

If volunteer registration is anything like the past, it will open sometime in May and there will be an email address that you can send requests to. Check this thread later for more info.

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Thank you, my question is answered. :cool:

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Where on the IRI website do Volunteers apply?

Re: 2009 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

:) Thanks, we did. Hope to see you there!

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It is not there yet - coming soon.

Chris

Re: 2009 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

...ok, so i'm supposed to get seran wrapped to albert?... SWEET! :rolleyes:

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This message is for any mentors, volunteers, or chaperoned students that may be traveling to IRI from Eastern PA, NJ, NY, MD or DE.

Teams 341 and 365 are sharing a 47 passenger coach bus to IRI and we have about 5 or 6 seats left. If you want to join us, the cost is about $85 round trip. The bus will leave on July 30th at 5 AM from Ambler, PA and return by the early evening on August 2nd. (Ambler is about 30 minutes north of Philadelphia)

If you are interested, please send me a PM.

Thanks!

Al Ostrow

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I assume that for those who are taking the bus that there is a place where you can leave your car?

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Any word on volunteer assignments yet?

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Brand new FRP? or used

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We will be using used regolith.

AB

Re: 2009 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

Shouldn't that be "previously owned" regolith? Marketing is everything.

Which reminds me, I saw an ad in the paper last week for a "used art sale". Isn't all art essentially used? :confused: You wanna buy my used Rembrandt? :p

Re: 2009 IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational)
 

Personally, used regolith sounds much more attractive than pre-owned to me. Much stickier.