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Originally Posted by Bongle
It may be something unique to Ontario, where regional results are very predictable despite the high quality of local robots.
In Ontario, there is a widely held belief (including being held by myself) that if either 1114 or 2056 seed on top, one picks the other and the competition is effectively over once alliance selection concludes**. As Looking Forward pointed out in his week 2 predictions, these two teams haven't lost a regional in Ontario since 2005 (and 2056 hasn't lost a regional ever).
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I don't agree with these statements, the first because there are other regional/districts that power house teams with history together go and the local competition is strong. One would be the Midwest regional has a lot of talented teams attending.
I would like to point at the GTR-E regional to 1114/2056 not being able to loose together, while it may not have looked like it in the competition, the finalist alliance had a pretty good chance of winning the regional. They were doing very well until finals, when they had problems with their triple balance and what appeared to be some scoring issues.