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Originally Posted by Chris Hibner
The hype from the 2001 event carried over to 2002 and it was talked about heavily on chiefdelphi leading up to the event. I seem to remember a few teams that travelled close to 1000 miles to attend.
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330 traveled 2000 miles in 2002
. 190 traveled to IRI in 2001, but not 2002. In 2003, 3 east coast teams and 1 west coast team attended.
When 330 decided they wanted to attend an away off-season event in 2002, the main choices were IRI and Battlecry. I don't remember why IRI was chosen, I think Battlecry was a little larger at the time. The next year, IRI exploded, and several new off seasons started on the east coast. I think that was probably the reason that IRI became the defacto offseason, because it was the only one in the area for a while, where as there were a bunch on the east coast.
One of the cool things of the early years of IRI was the pig roast (at least for the Californians).