Chief Delphi - 2011 Curie Division

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Re: 2011 Curie Division

Team 2996, Cougars Gone Wired, is super excited to be a part of the Curie Division!!! SEE EVERYONE THERE!!!!! :)

Re: 2011 Curie Division

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Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi (Post 1053339)

Curie and Archimedes are relatively weak compared to Newton and Galileo

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Originally Posted by SM987 (Post 1053346)

I'm one of those people that roots for the underdog. ;)

I kinda like the storyline of the "under-the-radar" alliance from the "cursed Division" emerging from their dark corner of the pits (yes we are going to be in the pits for Elims Sat) to win it all on the big stage of Einstein. ;)

Seriously, I think the ultimate champion on Einstein will be decided by consistency and the seeding of the division (and therefore the relative strength of the emerging alliance). So let the "stronger" divisions beat up on each other in quals (possibly leading to "surprise #1" and alliance breakup) while the cream rises to the top in Curie. In this game, marginal scoring diminishes quickly. I think all division winning alliances will be capable of putting up 4 logos per match, they just need to do so consistently. Bottom logos past that really aren't a gamebreaker (only 6pts for whole logo, weak). The winning alliances need to consistently put up 3 Ubers in auto and avoid penalties. They also need to consistently be at the towers at the 10 sec mark to enter their 2 minibots in the race of the sub-2sec minibots. It is way too early to predict which division will come out ahead in those races... :ahh:

We need to take it one step at a time. We will not face Newton or Galileo (the aforementioned "strong divisions") till the Einstein Finals. After we crown our champion, we need focus on beating Archimedes for taking our field in the Dome (and to keep The Radioactive Archimedes' Screw Trophy :D )

Personally, consider being in the same division as the AC of my team's 2 most successful runs on the world stage a sign of good luck(Nat Champs w/ Beatty in '01, Div Finalists w/ 987 in '08). Also, we have a good mix of old friends and new faces. Plus, having 5 HOF teams in your division never hurts ;)

Re: 2011 Curie Division

Looks like 176 is the only CT team in Curie this year, odd!

Oh well, we're ready to compete, and we're bringing a few new cards to play as well! ;)

Re: 2011 Curie Division

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I can't get the latest World Rank Data from Ed Law's database since it will not convert to pre-07 Excel format. Anyone have that data?

Can't wait for St. Louis!! Seeing old friends and making new ones. Curie will more formidable than people think.....

This is from the Week 6 data:

Team World Rank
987 4
2056 6
2363 10
71 15
1678 27
1986 33
2081 35
1983 37
1717 41
368 44
365 49
573 51
67 55
1923 57
2471 61
364 65
599 70
2751 73
51 80
180 82
2826 83
1519 87
1625 88
768 93
1574 104
176 113
245 115
103 121
1559 124
1507 161
1927 163
968 195
1024 201
1626 217
2702 255
135 261
3630 265
126 278
316 293
1675 308
2177 312
122 323
335 348
3130 357
2990 363
2102 369
2996 392
20 406
3507 411
141 441
1241 443
2377 465
3473 466
3459 475
60 535
1741 557
375 580
3160 605
166 629
3239 640
1891 642
3477 663
2761 708
2040 729
3739 762
687 798
2359 808
3172 832
3553 1008
3784 1029
3766 1070
246 1119
2783 1165
2486 1205
57 1235
3158 1247
2283 1259
401 1282
1836 1588
2556 1613
1739 1723
3685 1772
3651 1873
3624 1927
120 1928
3037 1989
3492 2041

Re: 2011 Curie Division

All of Team Mean Machine is also pretty excited to be on Curie!
Especially with Skunkworks and Hotwire, our PNW friends <3

Re: 2011 Curie Division

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Originally Posted by princessnatalie (Post 1053401)

All of Team Mean Machine is also pretty excited to be on Curie!
Especially with Skunkworks and Hotwire, our PNW friends <3

"World Domination !!!" ;)

GO PNW!

Break the curse...

Re: 2011 Curie Division

You know that this year is the 100th anniversary of Marie Curie winning her second Nobel prize (the one in chemistry).

I think that Poland is declaring 2011 as the year of Curie.

Perhaps 2011 is also the year of curie in FIRST?

Re: 2011 Curie Division

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Originally Posted by PaW (Post 1053422)

"World Domination !!!" ;)

GO PNW!

Break the curse...

It's been a few years since an "All Washington Teams" photo was taken at world champs. With this many teams coming, we definitely need to do it again!

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I'm really sad I won't be attending Championships this year (college is lame, don't do it).

My only hope is that we somehow make it onto an alliance for eliminations.:yikes:

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This should turn out to be a great devision. It'll be awesome to play with the High Rollers and everyone else again! Let's break that curse!

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368 will be bringing the aloha to Curie (yet again) along with our rookie friends 3685 from the across the island!

368 at Champs:

'02: Newton
'05: Curie
'08: Curie
'09: Newton
'10: Curie
'11: Curie

See you all there!

For scouts :) :
YouTube Website

Re: 2011 Curie Division

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Originally Posted by Navid Shafa (Post 1053428)

It's been a few years since an "All Washington Teams" photo was taken at world champs. With this many teams coming, we definitely need to do it again!

Agree!! We'll have to do some coordination work...

An eyeball check of our friends from FIRSTWA:

Archimedes
360
1899

Curie
1983
2471

Galileo
3393
3574
3588
3711

Newton
2046
2660

Re: 2011 Curie Division

OPR is not the end-all be-all for this game. Just look at MSC...if we went by OPR, the end result would have been completely different.

I am confident that many of the teams in Curie can hang/beat the top teams in the other divisions. Besides, they all have to beat each other up...before they get out of their division.

In the end the best alliance from each division will be pretty evenly matched.

67, 16, and 348 did our best to take down the Galileo giants last time we were on Curie. If you study those Einstien matches it was closer than the final scores looked.

There are a lot of strong teams in this division. I believe the alliance that gets out of Curie will be very strong. Eliminations are going to be very tough..the division winner will be have their strategy and teamwork down by the time they are done.

I remember hearing Newton was pretty weak last year and no way they would be able to beat the "un-beatable" alliance coming from Curie.

67 is ready for another challenge!

Re: 2011 Curie Division

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Originally Posted by Adam Freeman (Post 1053442)

OPR is not the end-all be-all for this game. Just look at MSC...if we went by OPR, the end result would have been completely different.

I don't think OPR is the reason some are perceiving Curie as weaker. It shouldn't be considering this data from Travis's spreadsheet

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Division        Average OPR        Standard Deviation        # of Teams

Galileo                19.86                16.35                87        

Curie                19.85                16.52                88        

Newton                19.21                16.98                87        

Archimedes        16.51                16.45                87

All the divisions are pretty similar in Avg OPR except for Archi. I would say it has more to do with teams in the Top25 Week 6 Public Poll:

Galileo 5 teams
Curie 5 teams
Newton 9 teams
Archimedes 6 teams

Galileo also has only 5 teams too, but 4 of them are in the Top 10. The Top25 is a lot of fun, but champions are decided on the field not in public opinion.

Re: 2011 Curie Division

If we are going of well know and consistent powerhouse names then yes, Curie is weak. but I don't believe we are week at all who knows what could happen through the three days of competition all of the top contenders could break some how could switch up the top 24. I feel like Curie is going to be a great division this year and tell people around not to sleep on us.:D