this may be a really foolish question,
but if you look at the page for the documentation on the sensor(
http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedFiles...20_121007.pdf), it looks like you have to physically push a button to program the ir chip, and thus the sensor will be learning a code prior to the match,
and thus there is no need for code to receive the ir pattern
as the code is stored in the chip
i believe that based on this what is going to happens is that each team will be given an ir pattern at the beginning of the match, and then will complete a goal using that code