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Originally Posted by Andy Baker (Post 1062055)

Ugh.

We're on Eastern time, folks - same as Ambler and Exton PA, and Ewing, NJ. It's the same time as Orlando, FL and Suwanee, GA, same as Warren, Ohio, which is on the same time as Lawrence North High School.

Andy B.

Yay, our town was mentioned.

/warmfuzzyfeeling

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Originally Posted by Chris Fultz (Post 1062066)

Yes. Part of the "winnings" has been an automatic invite to the following year.

What about 62 years from now? :rolleyes:

EDIT: At first I thought it was that winners got automatic invites forever. Now I get it. Makes much more sense now.

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Originally Posted by Bryany (Post 1062080)

What about 62 years from now? :rolleyes:

The number will still be 4! :p

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Originally Posted by Chris Fultz (Post 1061964)

The invitation list will be posted Wednesday, no later than Noon Indiana Time.

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Originally Posted by Meredith Novak (Post 1062076)

John was anxiously awaiting the list to come out at noon Eastern, 11 am Central. Today.

We have a new announcement, and this one trumps Fultz's words above. This change of timing will be the start of a new, fun thing.

Get your popcorn ready. The IRI invite list will be coming out 8 hours later than originally planned. We are happy to announce that Mike and Justin will be broadcasting the IRI invite list through their popular FRC Top 25 webcast. The webcast will begin at 8:00 Eastern time, Wednesday night (May 18th).

So, gather your teams together at 8:00 Eastern time and watch Mike and Justin's webcast to see which teams are invited to IRI this year.

There will be 70 teams invited. Of these 70, we are planning for 2-4 teams that decide they cannot make the trip, so we will end up with approximately 66-68 teams. There will be no wait list. The selection committee focused on robot performance, on the competition field, more than any year prior. However, we still had other factors weighing decisions. We hope that the resulting list of teams brings together the best assembly of top-performing FIRST Robotics Competition teams that ever has been on the same field.

Sincerely,
Chris Fultz
and
Andy Baker

ps. After Mike and Justin's webcast, the invite list will be posted on this thread and the IRI website, and teams will be sent more information with an email.

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Originally Posted by Andy Baker (Post 1062089)

webcasted invites

Awesome! We have a team meeting tomorrow night too...

So do they recognize Daylight Savings Time in Rochester? Isn't that tomorrow night on "Mike and Justin in the Morning?" :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Andy Baker (Post 1062089)

Get your popcorn ready. The IRI invite list will be coming out 8 hours later than originally planned. We are happy to announce that Mike and Justin will be broadcasting the IRI invite list through their popular FRC Top 25 webcast. The webcast will begin at 8:00 Eastern time, Wednesday night (May 18th).

So, gather your teams together at 8:00 Eastern time and watch Mike and Justin's webcast to see which teams are invited to IRI this year.

Justin and I couldn't be more honored to host this IRI invite list show!!
It's gonna be a great show, and as Andy said, grab your popcorn! It's going to be so fun announcing 70 different teams! See you tomorrow on MikeandJustinITM!

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Originally Posted by Andy Baker (Post 1062055)

Ugh.
We're on Eastern time, folks - same as Ambler and Exton PA, and Ewing, NJ.

Yes, Eastern time and Exton Pa and sunset moments are all magical times. The sun descends, and shines through the current day pollutants, to put a purple/orange glow on Exton.

Which is why going to IRI is a bonus, only the rich orange and burnt umber rays of a closing day warm the ground, making you think all is right with the worlds.

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Originally Posted by OZ_341 (Post 1062065)

I live in Ambler, PA and I never know what time it is. Ask anybody. ;)

Mr. O,

IT'S GAME TIME

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Originally Posted by Karthik (Post 1061898)

Some stats on the teams who've applied.

- 49 of the 96 elimination round teams from the Championship have applied
- 12 of the 12 Einstein teams have applied
- 18 of the applied teams won multiple events
- 47 of the applied teams won an event or a division
- 70 of the applied teams were an event finalist or better

This will not be an easy decision making process for the IRI organizing committee, there will definitely be some high performing teams left out.

Now that the FRCTop25.com guys have jumped on board, here's one more stat.

- 9 of the top 10 and 20 of the top 25 teams according to FRCTop25.com have applied for IRI

Less than 2 hours until the list is announced...time to freak out:ahh:

Never been nervous before the IRI team list announcement before. Just shows what an amazing event it has become.

125 is in! We're very excited for our 1st IRI!!

-Brando

# Team Team Name
1 11 MORT
2 16 Baxter Bomb Squad
3 25 Raider Robotix
4 33 Killer Bees
5 45 Technokats
6 48 Delphi E.L.I.T.E.
7 51 Wings of Fire
8 67 HOT
9 70 The More Martians
10 71 Team Hammond
11 74 Team C.H.A.O.S.
12 93 N.E.W. Apple Corps
13 111 Wildstang
14 118 The Robonauts
15 125 The NUTRONs
16 135 Penn Robotics
17 177 Bobcat Robotics
18 217 ThunderChickens
19 233 The PINK Team
20 234 Cyber Blue
21 245 Adambots
22 254 The Cheesy Poofs
23 292 PantherTech
24 294 Beach City Robotics
25 303 Panther Robotics
26 330 Beach 'Bots
27 341 Miss Daisy
28 359 Hawaiian Kids
29 399 Eagle Robotics
30 469 Las Guerrillas
31 494 The Martians
32 548 Robostangs
33 781 Kinetic Knights
34 829 Digital Goats
35 868 Techhounds
36 910 The Foley Freeze
37 931 Perpetual Chaos
38 968 RAWC
39 973 Greyhound Robotics
40 987 HIGHROLLERS
41 1018 Pike RoboDevils
42 1024 Kil-A-Bytes
43 1038 Thunderhawks
44 1114 Simbotics
45 1126 Sparx
46 1477 Texas Torque
47 1501 Team THRUST
48 1503 GM Spartonics
49 1519 Mechanical Mayhem
50 1538 The Holy Cows
51 1625 Winnovation
52 1640 Sab-BOT-age
53 1718 The Fighting Pi
54 1730 Team Driven
55 1732 Hilltoppers
56 1741 Red Alert Robotics
57 1747 Harrison Boiler Robotics
58 1771 North Gwinnett Robotics
59 1902 Exploding Bacon
60 1923 The Midknight Inventors
61 2016 Mighty Monkey Wrenches
62 2056 OP Robotics
63 2081 Icarus
64 2122 Team Tators
65 2169 KING TeC
66 2337 EngiNERDs
67 2415 WiredCats
68 2826 Wave Robotics
69 3098 The Captains
70 3138 Innovators Robotics

So excited for Team 1923! I'll be there! :)