IRI 2011 Final Results and Awards

[Chris Fultz]

Here are the final IRI Awards and Competition Results for 2011

FIRST LogoMotion Competition

IRI Champions *
33-2056-217-359
33 – Killer Bees
2056 – OP Robotics
217 – Thunder Chickens
359 – Hawaiian Kids

* Automatic bid and no entry fee to 2012 IRI.


Finalists
3138-16-2122-1730
3138 – Innovators Robotics
16 – Bomb Squad
2122 – Team Taters
1730 – Team Driven


IRI Special Awards

IRI Indiana FIRST Foundations Award
Jason Zelke, Team 1024

IRI Mentor of the Year
Jon Jack, Team 1538

IRI Volunteers of the Year
Paul Copioli, Team 217 and IRI MC since 2002
Dan Green, Team 111 and IRI Announcer since 2002

IRI Talent Show Winner
Ian Hatzillas , Team 217

Scholarships
A total of $15,000 in college scholarships.

Marcia Beatty Foundation and the IRI ($1500)
Matthew Coffey, Team 1114

Interactive Intelligence Foundation ($2500)
CJ Burchfield, Team 234

TechPoint Foundation ($2000)
Kendra Grossman, Team 2014

Innovation First / VEX Robotics ($2000)
Stacey Willick, Team 1114

AndyMark, Inc ($2000)
Samir Shaikh, Team 1501

IRI Teams and 4FX Designs ($2000)
Niklas Olsen, Team 2826

Allison Transmission ($1500)
Kathryn Widen, Team 1675

Rolls-Royce Corporation ($1500)
Rachel Goubert, Team 1718

IRI Charities

A total of over $4700 was raised from the Mentor Dinner ($500), MEntor Challenge ($630) and Silent Auction (over $3600).
This will be shared by the Howard County Literacy Coalition (Kokomo) and a to-be-determined charity in Indianapolis.

Over 100 backpacks were donated and these will be given to deserving students in the Wayne Township School District on the west side of Indianapolis.

[Ed Law]

Does anybody know where I can find IRI qualifying round match results?

[IKE]

You can get the data from Twitter. 2011IRI or #omgIRI

[Ed Law]

The results I am posting are not official. I got the match schedule and results from Twitter. I did a lot of data massaging to get it into the format that I need.

The OPR data is attached. Ranking does not take into account disqualifications so it is not accurate.

Prediction of qualifying match results using highest OPR is 68% correct. Not too bad considering rule change, new drivers, robot upgrade etc. after regular season.

[IKE]

Thanks for posting this Ed. This kinda confirms that in a closed system and digressive scoring nature of this game, when the field of competition rises, the OPRs will actually go down. At MSC there seemed to be a normalizing effect that pushed teams down towards 45-50 pts. for their OPR.
This was the opposite of last years game where 3 good machines working together could outscore the sum of the seperate OPRs. Pretty neat stuff.

[Jim Zondag]

Actual performance at this event matched fairly well to the projections prior to the event (see attached chart). This chart shows the cumulative density graphs from some of the worst performing events of the year (Dallas) as well as the very best. IRI was the most competitive event of the year by far.

IKE, you are correct that in a game like LogoMotion, where the scoring has a fixed upper limit, individual team OPRs at a strong event will have a lower peak than at a weaker event. The rules we were playing at IRI capped the scoring upper limit at 160. 160/3 = 53. Not surprising most of the top OPR values at this event fall just below this value.