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Originally Posted by CalTran
What, no history or trivia of the KC regional like last year?
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Well, looking at last year's thread:
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Originally Posted by Alpha Beta
For those of you looking for a good week 3 regional, here are some facts.
A lot of parity in the field. - No team has ever captained the winning alliance more than once. (2007 = 935; 2008 = 476; 2009 = 1806; 2010 = 2345; 2011 = 525; 2012 = 1986)
- No team has ever been on the winning alliance more than twice.
A deep top end. In 2012... - 5 teams went on to seed #1 at another regional event: 16, 935, 1986, 2996, 3528
- 9 Teams total were part of alliances that won a regional
- 1/4th of last years field (16/64 teams) attended champs.
Currently 4 states are represented - Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma
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All the trivia in the "a lot of parity in the field" was broken by team 1986 captaining the winning alliance while 1806 won it's 3rd Greater Kansas City Regional.
As far as a deep top end goes:
2013:
1 Divisional Finalist at Worlds
2 Teams that made Eliminations in their respective divisions at worlds
2 FRC Top 25 Robots (Ranked #3 and #22)
6 Regional Winner Trophies were brought back to the Kansas City Area (967 makes 7, but they are neither from Kansas City nor registered for this year)
8 World Championship Qualifying Teams (By My Count) (Would be 9 with 1710)
5 states are represented: Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma
Maybe the statistics aren't as impressive, but KC and STL got divided last year by being events on the same week, and team 16 opted not to return to Kansas City. With that in perspective, along with the fact that many teams went to the Razorback Regional where they were beat by an alliance captained by eventual FRC World Champions, team 1477, it's quite understandable that we don't have 9 regional winning teams from 2013.