2012 IRI - Invitation List

[Grim Tuesday]

Congrats to 68 and 330 for making the list. You guys were great alliance partners on Newton, and I would say 68 was the darkest horse of the entire Championships. They peaked at the right time, I hope they can keep the peak through IRI.

[BrendanRadabaug]

this is going to be a fun off season event; we already are getting things ready for the silent auction, we have two squishy pigs signed by NASA Astronauts and one signed by Dean himself! and maybe another BACON basket from ThinkGeek.com

[Kyler Hagler]

Team Black Hawk graciously accepts. On another note thanks for the invite, we are defiantly ecstatic about it. Thanks you Kaos for the support!

[Akash Rastogi]

Unfortunate to see 11 not on the list, I thought they would have made the cut. Of the 50 teams who played in Championship eliminations and applied to IRI, 49 got in..11 was the unlucky number 50.

Good to see plenty of other teams to cheer for though! Good luck to the folks representing the east coast.

[JohnSchneider]

Originally Posted by Pjohn1959

Congrats to FRC team 3310 for making the list! Go Team Black Hawk!

We appreciate it. This is our first venture, and we hope to make Texas proud along with the impressive list of other Texas teams!

[Elizabeth Waters]

624 is absolutely honored to be invited to attend the IRI for the first time in the team's history. Looking forward to fantastic competition.

Thank you to those teams and individuals who supported our journey here.

[AlexD744]

744 SHARK ATTACK is sooooo ready to attend our first ever IRI. We're gonna step up our game even more, and I promise we'll be tripling by then. Our first ever attempt at a triple was in the Galileo finals, and it was with 2 longs and a wide, and we were sooooo close to pulling it off. We're definitely going to be adding balancing features, and practicing with them before we get there. As a driver, it was probably the most exciting thing I've tried.

[IndySam]

Will any of the recommendation letters be shared publicly?

[Travis Hoffman]

I am extremely honored and thankful that three NEOFRA teams have been invited.

I know that 48 is going to enjoy the heck out of IRI as always (after a short jaunt up to Michigan for MARC - can't wait for that either!). We're giving our senior drive team one final run for glory - they've earned it. The newbies get to have fun next fall at some event up Rochester way. I hear it's also a fairly decent and fun competition.

[Chris Fultz]

Originally Posted by IndySam

Will any of the recommendation letters be shared publicly?

No. The letters were sent as private mails and there was nothing stated that they would be shared publicly, so I don't think that would be appropriate.

[lynca]

Originally Posted by blondie624

624 is absolutely honored to be invited to attend the IRI for the first time in the team's history. Looking forward to fantastic competition.

Thank you to those teams and individuals who supported our journey here.

Your team has earned a spot after years of hard work and great robots !

Its great to see teams like 624 and 3310 make their first IRI appearance.

It would be neat to look at the number of appearances at IRI for all teams !

[Kyler Hagler]

Originally Posted by lynca

Your team has earned a spot after years of hard work and great robots !

Its great to see teams like 624 and 3310 make their first IRI appearance.

It would be neat to look at the number of appearances at IRI for all teams !

It certainly is, we can't wait and look forward to seeing 624 there as well as all the others that have made it.

[theawesome1730]

Originally Posted by jyh947

Not a single 2011 team made it onto this list... interesting.

Do you mean as in champions from 2011 or any team that attended in 2011? We attended last year.

[Jimmy Nichols]

1038 is extremely dissapointed to have not been invited. We have been invited the last 5 or 6 years and always enjoy attending, competing and watching the best teams. Making new friends and strengthening others. You may still see a few of us tye-dye folks on Saturday.

[Bjenks548]

This is going to be an insane event. In past years it seemed like there were 2-10 robots that were quite far above the rest. This year I really don't see that. I can see an interesting 2nd pick based not on shooting but feeding and speed to the coop bridge in hybr...autonomous.