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Re: Best Team Never To Win at Championships?
There are so many teams that could be mentioned I figured I had to come up with some criteria to help with my argument. My opinion is that a team must have made Einstein at least two times to really be considered one of the best to have never won championship. This eliminated 16, 121/78, 2056 and 1625 from my list. That left me with the following teams: 233, 60, 175, 968, 1218, 33, 340 and 1126. From that list my pick was 233, followed closely by 33 and 1126.
The PINK team builds some of my favorite robots year after year and they are always there in the later rounds at championship. Their 2005 robot is easily one of my favorite robots of all time.
The Killer Bees are a team that I have had a ton of chances to interact with here in Michigan and were an easy pick for my personal favorite team to have never won championship (excluding mine of course). If there is a spot for team that I want to win to championship they are easily the pick there.
Finally, I think 1126 has been one of the most underrated teams in FIRST for several years. I don't know if it is their region or something else, but I don't think these guys get quite as much respect as they deserve.
I would like to give a special mention also to 60, who has probably the least luck when it comes to Einstein out of any team in FIRST. Their three trips to Einstein were 01, 02 and 08 where, unfortunately for them, three of the greatest robots ever awaited them. (Another weird thing that I find interesting is that the 08 Newton alliance had 968, 233, and 60, all three teams with cases for the Best Team to never win championships)
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