IRI - 2014 Team Invitations

[Chris Fultz]

We will be posting the 2014 IRI Team Invitations.

For invited teams, please send an "Accept" or "Decline" to us by May 30.
We will not be sending a separate invitation email.
Please send your decision to pc@indianaroboticsinvitational.org

We will start sending invoices next week. We know many teams need these soon to get payments processed through their schools, so we will send them before we have confirmations on attendance. The invoice will go to the primary contact noted on the application.

You can pay via paypal or by sending a check.

This was a very challenging year to select teams. There were many, many very qualified teams and we made some tough decisions. We decided to keep the field at about 70* teams so that there was a good balance of the number of matches, the work on volunteers, and strong competition.

*76 invites and usually 4 - 6 are not able to attend for various reasons.

[Pauline Tasci]

So... team list?

[Billfred]

...I reject your reality, and substitute my own!

Congrats to all the teams invited. This is going to be Yet Another Incredible IRI.

[Justin Montois]

Congrats to all teams!

Especially to our CMP alliance partners 16 and 868!

We'll see you there!

[Yipyapper]

The feeling sucks to not make it, but I am so elated to see 2013 make it. I really have been waiting for them to make it for a long time, and they finally get their due.

Let's go Cybergnomes!

[orangemoore]

I am really hoping that I am able to make it.

[MCahoon]

Great to see 3 NW District teams were selected. Go 1318, 2928 and 4488!

[Gregor]

I see 9 Canadian teams.

610
1114
1241
1310
2013
2056
3683
4039
4334

Congratulations to everyone!

[Link07]

I count four MAR Teams on the list

New Jersey: 11 + 2590
Pennsylvania: 225 + 1640

Good Luck to all teams!

[Thad House]

Wow. I was shaking for a good 5 minutes after reading this. This is amazing. 3 PNW teams as well. Gonna be amazing

[MARS_James]

Really glad to see we got accepted along with our other two Florida teams 108 and 233

[S.P.A.M.er]

Originally Posted by MARS_James

Really glad to see we got accepted along with our other two Florida teams 108 and 233

I'm happy that Florida will be well represented this year! And for PINK 233 to be able to show their stuff again.

My prayers are with you guys. Good luck and may the best Floridian prevail.

[Navid Shafa]

You know the normal qualification system needs work if 9/76 teams attending IRI didn't play at the World Championship.

[tickspe15]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

You know the normal qualification system needs work if 9/76 teams attending IRI didn't play at the World Championship.

are any of the nine teams that didn't attend champs from a region that has districts?

[Aren Siekmeier]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

You know the normal qualification system needs work if 9/76 teams attending IRI didn't play at the World Championship.

Perhaps a better way to put this is that the IRI committee considered these 9 teams more qualified than the 28 CMP qualifiers who applied and were not accepted. Three of these 28 were 1285, 341, and 193, who weren't accepted for other reasons already addressed. Meanwhile, 2 of the 9 teams you refer to are 234 and 1024, who are hosting the IRI...

Also, this statistic could be far worse. That's only 9 teams (maybe as many as 20 non-CMP qualifiers including those who didn't apply for the IRI) who are "better" than some of the 400 CMP qualifiers. And by this IRI metric (if we're gonna call it that), this 5% (20/400) is only "better" than 10% (28, or ~40 teams) of those who qualified. I feel pretty comfortable dismissing this 5% error as statistical noise, rather than claiming a correlation to an inaccurate qualification system (particularly since the IRI and CMP both have about 5-10% noise built-in with auto-qualifications).

Edit: it might be neat to actually figure out some of the statistics here. We could call the qualification system "error" the difference between some ranking that qualifies you for CMP and some other ranking that we like better (such as qualifying for the IRI, worldwide district points, etc.). The above suggests the error distribution is rather narrow around zero (assuming IRI acceptance is the gold standard of qualification systems...). At the very least, even if both CMP qualification and IRI acceptance are horrible measures of team or robot quality, the discrepancy between the two measures is small.