YES! I WANT TO DRIVE AGAIN!!! ITS BEEN TOO LONG!!! :yikes:
Sorry…gotta get the team there first before I can hope for something like this.
Kev
hummmm…adults driving robots! this could be interesting and FUN!
I believe one of the Michigan off-season events has something like this. They have an all-girls event, and then an all-engineer/coach event.
I think it’s called the ‘YOU THINK YOU CAN DO IT BETTER?!’ event.
… and what an appropriate name that may be… 
we used to do them at mayhem in miami. I rember when we were DJing we put on “Girls” by beastie boys for finals in the all girls matches.
I think Brandon may be thinking of the Ford Sweet Repeat up in Rochester. I know they have an all-girls competition because we won that and the regular competition in 2001. There may be other competitions with that sort of setup, as well. Sweet Repeat is a good one, though.
I think an “Adult Only” series of matches is now on the agenda for the IRI.
We will have student referees…
I would glady volunteer to be a referee for this! 
Wow, I’m glad I remembered that from Sweet Repeat (I think)… seems like people really like the idea of it :]
i don’t know about letting our adults drive they might break it. that is unless i break it first.
so everyone’s all excited about an adult round…what about a college student round?!? :yikes:
heck, while we are at it, lets have a “Death Match” to determine which one of Scott’s cows will be slaughtered for lunch! :ahh: The alliance that looses will be in everyones tummy on Saturday 
p.s. dont let PETA see this :eek:
OK! I will be the scorekeeper for that!
Depends on how much the college students are willing to pay the organizing committee (Andy / Libby / Me).
Maybe matches for anyone that is not on a high school team. That way we won’t rob the teams of toooo many matches.
Oh oh oh, an adult tourny would be awesome and I would love to do something like ref that.
Yep at the FSR last year, I think they scheduled the all-girls matches and as well as a Mentors competition. But I think the Mentor’s one actually got cancelled due to time… That was a bummer… but it’ll be great if they try it again this year!
According to DJ Fluck among others, I am going to IRI this year.
If you need any help with crew or just something, I’m more than willing to help.
Haha sounds fammilar…
Turns out we are getting an RV and going, at least a bunch of us. Woop woop im excited!
Yay IRI! I’m looking forward to it being my last robotics compitition. Although I have retired from driving to the best of my knowledge… so does that make me a Mentor? After all I can’t touch the robot so I’ve been told… after all someone has to fill these shoes… lol you try being driver. Anyways an all Adult compitition would be cool and it would put our mentors back in line cause they entered the one at Sweet Repeat last year and since it didn’t happen they said they won by default and we have been hearing it ever since :rolleyes: . IRI has been great of the past few years… and got signifigantly bigger last year… it went from like 30 to like 50 teams! Now thats a compitition!
Here is the latest update for the 2004 IRI!
July 9 and 10
Lawrence North High School
Indianapolis, IN (northeast side)
Registration for teams begins May 14.
Volunteer applications begin May 14.
Expected Registration Fee $350 - $400,
plus a backpack filled with 2nd grader materials ($25 or so).
60 Teams.
We are planning several ‘special’ activities for the IRI.
These are not absolute, but high on the likelihood list:
An ‘adults only’ round (that counts in your team ranking, just because).
A cook-out for all teams on Friday Night (Scott Ritchie on the grille)
A fun-filled breakfast on Saturday Morning
A “Presidents Award” that will sound similar to the FIRST Chairman’s Award
A Mentor of the Year Award
A Human Player-based game
Special individual and team awards
A “talent show” for your entertainment
Great Fun
Some special guests (I hear the Invisible Man is coming!)
… and more
Registration information will be posted on Chief Delphi and IndianaFIRST.org.
If it ain’t posted by me, don’t believe it
“The 2004 IRI Big Cheese”
Chris Fultz 
does that make me the little cheese? or for anybody who knows the history of my family…the stinky cheese?
there’s a reason he’s on the nu-matics team 
sorry…i’m off topic again…woo IRI! I’m glad to see it at the countdown portion of the webpage…only 79 days!