Team 330 is looking forward to this event. We always have a great time. Thanks for the update.
There will be no mentor match or tournament this year
That’s too bad. I was seriously considering entering this year… :]
Yikes. 13 less teams can get in this year. That’s 13 less chances for teams like mine to get accepted. We had a poor, incomplete show at Chesapeake, but I’d like to think we had a great turnaround at Virginia and finished with a top 5 robot (even if we finished 10th, I’ll say we’re awesome) Oh well. I really want to get a strong contingent of 422 to want to go so we can apply and leave luck to heaven.
It’s a good primer for a championship in terms of team quality.
no mentor match? that was the only time mentors got to break the robot… i mean test its optimal performance.
How many seats are available to purchase for the dinner on the field?
i dont think 1089 has the resources to make it out, on the off chance that we even get invited lol. but i know a bunch of the seniors (including myself) on the team have indicated that they would be interested in making a road trip out to volunteer or just enjoy the high level of robot action 
hopefully, things work out and we can make it out as a group (seniors only haha) one last time before we all go our separate ways
Wow, Aashay, you doubt us that much? On the contrary, 1089 is already working to figure out how to get there! We have a lot of unconfirmed possibilities right now, but I know our team works best under pressure (as do most FIRST teams)! We’ll definitely be applying, and we’re keeping all of our fingers crossed to get there!
We are gana try to make it in again this year. Its always a blast!
ill hoping to generate some interest for this within our team… lets see though…
not doubting. just saying theres a lot of teams out there that are just as good if not better than us. trust me, i wanna go to IRI as badly as everyone else hahaha. and actually i just found out about this plan today from amanda lol. until today i had no idea we were legit submitting. this is gonna be funnnn
Really hope my team applies this year. We had a really good robot that could have won a few regionals if it weren’t for some very stiff competition. cough 118 cough I’ve been lobbying for them to apply but I don’t know how their budget it. I would love to just volunteer but I have work and summer school this summer. I will be keeping up on the webcast though.
I know the question was asked, but it never received an answer - will there be an unofficial VEX competition this year again?
We are thinking about going, if we are accepted.
If we do get in, we are also looking for east coast teams that would like to share our trailer and split expenses on a bus.
We went in 2009 and shared a bus/trailer with MOE. We had a blast.
We don’t know about this yet.
Andy B.
1089 is thinking of going as well if we get in! im sure a lot of our team members would be thrilled to share a bus with daisy 
i think we would be interested, lets see how it all goes down
When does registration open up?
From the IRI website: “Applications will be entered on this website, starting May 9th, ending May 15th.”
Applications open at midnight :01 Monday morning (May). It is not a race to apply, we don’t look at applications until the process closes at Midnight on the 15th.
A complete, well thought out application is more important than one that gets submitted first thing tomorrow morning.
Even though, both times our team has gone to IRI I have traveled, I have never seen the application that we sent in. So I was wondering, what exactly do you guys look for in the applications?
There are a few questions on the application that need to be answered. Mainly why do you want to come, is there anything unique about your team, etc.
So 2791 submitted its application to IRI today. For awhile, we were unsure about submitting. We didn’t make eliminations this year, and barely have a winning record. We’re an outsider team that hasn’t participated in the IRI before and we were very skeptical as to whether it was even worth applying for.
But at today’s meeting, we did a 180. We talked about the IRI, and why we wanted to go in the first place. For the past 18 months or so, IRI has been our goal. We’ve wanted to field a robot competitive enough and a team strong enough to earn a trip to IRI. We looked at ourselves, looked at our season, and looked past the results on the FIRST website. We fielded a competitive robot this year. We’re proud of the engineering we put into the various subsystems and considering our over constrained build season, we did an amazing job. I’m proud of the team. Plus, through this hardship, we have definitively grown and strengthened as a team. These students have grown so much in the past two seasons. We have gone from a group of kids to a group of driven individuals working in harmony toward a common cause.
After this reflection, I believe we’ve definitely gotten our act together enough to justify applying to IRI. Our team is strong, our robot is simple, and we’re as much of a team as we’ve ever been. Plus, it is true that you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. If we don’t apply, we’re guaranteed failure. Why not take the shot?