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Somebody's likely going to break their canburglar during a war on the step well before the finals, and I wouldn't be suprised if we see some pretty bloody battles in elims and Einstein over those cans. I propose an over-under of 4 canburglars broken in the elims as a whole, maybe more. Will be interesting to watch.

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My predictions

1. At least 6 alliances on Einstein will have a Michigan team
2. Most of the division champions will be a combination of #1 and #2 teams
3. One of the divisional champions will be made up of a non-obvious combination of robots that hasn't been made before, and could potentially win it all.

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I suspect there will be a lot more than 4 broken - canburglars are typically light, thin, fast moving things that will be fighting against other light, thin, fast moving things, only fighting with the drivetrain instead of the arm. Not only that, but I'd be surprised if you didn't see them being used in every eliminations round. I suspect overall, there should at least be 2 broken on each field (mind you many of them will be very easy fixes).

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Will mecanum wheels finally make it to the Einstein carpet this year? That's the real question. ;)

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I'd love to see that happen, but the logistics involved are just awful. If anything was made, it would have to be right after alliance selections so the alliances are set. Trying to make it so people can pick the alliances before they're picked would be near impossible to organize. You would then either need to put it up online to have people fill out, or bring a dozen printers and start printing as soon as you know you can to hand out to people to fill out.

That being said, if anyone wants to make this happen, I'll help as much as I can.

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the first person with legitimate strategy

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I agree. It makes scouting much more valuable, so the whole team, not just the drive team, can feel it has contributed.

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And someone else suggested 330 on the alliance with two other powerhouses, but who also will be an alliance captain and in the mix.

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That post was from the "If all the best teams by OPR got on the same alliance" prediction.

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Top 25 at Champs.

254 The Cheesy Poofs 1400 carson
1114 Simbotics 1387 curie
2056 OP Robotics 1247 galileo
118 Robonauts 1053 newton
1678 Citrus Circuits 993 newton
624 CRyptonite 676 Tesla
2826 Wave Robotics 658 hopper
1986 Team Titanium 498 carver
1023 Bedford Express 469 archimedes
33 Killer Bees 461 hopper
1325 Inverse Paradox 431 carson
1690 Orbit 409 galileo
971 Spartan Robotics 389 carver
2338 Gear It Forward 373 archimedes
2122 Team Tators 310 tesla
2085 RoboDogs 298 carson
1756 Argos 295 newton
3683 Team Dave 288 hopper
368 Team Kika Mana 271 carver
1538 The Holy Cows 269 archimedes
469 Las Guerrillas 252 hopper
701 RoboVikes 241 curie
525 Swartdogs 209 galileo
548 Robostangs 199 hopper
3824 HVA RoHAWKtics 191 tesla

118/1678 in Newton seem pretty formidable, especially since they have played together and have the expertise to cheesecake both their 3rd and 4th picks. Whoever gets to Einstein, the competition will be both sublime and intense. Both 254 and 1114 are very strong, and depending how they pick their allies, can be hard to beat. There seems to be a big gap between 1678 (993 QA) and 2826 (658 QA), but it is the strength of the alliance, not the individual top seed that counts. It might actually help to have both your third and 4th picks to be can grabbers, since it possible to sustain damage in a tug-of-war as 971 found out at SVR.

Anyway, it will be fun to watch. Go Teams!

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So, that's the FRC top 25 five list for the top teams who competed in week 6, so it's missing a few teams (148, 987 and 1730 are some that come to mind). The official top twenty five for the entire season is coming out tonight during the show.

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I honestly think that this year is the year a PNW team goes to Einstein. I hope it's us but I'd be thrilled to see any PNW team make it. :rolleyes:

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FRC Top 25 might not be the best way to rank teams due to it being based off of voting rather than stats. A better way to rank would be Max OPR or even Average OPR.

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There are a couple of teams in the PNW that very much belong in any "Top 25" list - 4488 and 1983 come to mind specifically.... There are also a handful that are strong enough (though may have been a bit inconsistent during the season) that they could potentially disrupt their divisions, depending on how the pairings work out.... 2471, 955, 1318, 2550, 3663, 4061 and 948 come to mind.