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Originally Posted by Andy Baker
All teams can apply. Not all teams will be invited. We only have 66 spots. It will not simply be "first come, first served". Our selection criteria is still a work in progress.
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The FRC site lists 25 Indiana teams: 45, 71, 135, 234, 292, 393, 447, 461, 829, 868, 1000, 1018, 1024, 1327, 1501, 1529, 1555, 1646, 1720, 1741, 1747, 1760, 1766, 2171, 2197. If I left your team off the list, please accept my apology. Just working off the data FIRST provides today.
So, assuming there will be a few 2008 Indiana rookies who come to IRI to jump start their first season, there will probably be less that 40 spots available for out-of-state invitees. Whatever selection criteria the IRI leadership chooses to apply -- and I don't envy anyone the job of figuring that out -- I for one hope they don't post those criteria here.
As Chris reminded us in an earlier post, any out-of-state team that is unhappy about the limited number of spots at IRI is free to start their own off-season event.
Maybe someday we'll have an MRI
(uh, wait, that doesn't sound right.)
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