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Unread 15-07-2003, 12:45
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I don't even know why I am going... Oh yeah, that's right, I am going because Championship Event got too big to be a personal, friendly competition to meet friends. Yeah... That's it. I won't be going to championship events anymore, because I am planning to attend IRI every year instead. It's much easier to attend a smaller competition and meet with friends in a friendlier environment without 200 other teams around you.

I believe IRI is popular because some of the older, bigger teams are attending, like 25, 27, 45, 47, 58, 65, 67, 68, 111, 217, 222, 234, 308, 343. These are the teams I used to look out for back at the 00', 01' season. There are quite a bit of National Champions, regional champions, regional finalists among these teams.

That is not to say the rest of the teams aren't competitive, and because they are, it just make IRI one of the toughest competition around the country. That doesn't happen too often when local off season competitions have a lot of local teams showing up.

Oh yeah, I also think IRI is so popular because Andy Baker is so popular among the FIRST community. When Andy says so, you just can't not go to IRI . All in all, IRI is popular because a lot of teams think others good teams are going, and want to play competitively.

Seems like it's going to be fun.
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