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Re: 2010 IRI Results and Awards
While the issue is far from a simple matter, I agree with Karthik. Rejecting a team from the IRI is something I'm very glad the selection committee has not taken lightly, and I also see the positives to allowing loyal and friendly teams to return year after year. However, I think the balance between maintaining a deep, competitive field and including so many teams that contribute to the IRI year after year may be tilted a bit farther away from the competitive side than I'd prefer. Schedules determine seeding at IRI more than any event I've been to, at least in the past two years that I've attended. Basically, the team that lucks out and gets a schedule full of teams that had world class robots gets the number one seed. Not to take anything away from those teams (330 is one of the top 10-20 robots of 2010 and earned their #1 seed), but I really think a field needs to be both deep and even to make an event like this as competitive as possible.
On the flip side, allowing less teams means more rejections, obviously, and that sucks for those teams. I wish there was a way for those teams to be included in some way. I know members of my team opted to volunteer, and in my case, fielded a Vex robot. Perhaps side events or other similar opportunities could be presented for the IRI loyalists out there? It's not a simple problem with a simple solution by any means, and if a more competitive field is called for I don't envy the people that have to make the tough decisions.
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