[JABot67]

I'll take a stab at predictions for the 2016 championship! I made these picks with the idea of maximizing the chances of one or both of the teams being right. There is definitely a lot of variability in this year's game and it seems guaranteed that some unexpectedly awesome alliances will make Einstein this year. I just tried to choose 2 teams from each division that I thought had pretty good chances of winning their divisions. So without further ado:

Newton: 67/254
Tesla: 1690/2056
Galileo: 195/987
Hopper: 148/1678
Curie: 3339/3990
Carver: 1114/359
Carson: 1024/1619
Archi: 1501/1986

I think there will be a lot of Michigan teams on Einstein, especially in the 3rd/4th bot slots. I was impressed with the Israeli teams when watching their regional so I picked 3339 and 1690 to win their divisions - hopefully they got lots of practice! Newton was hard to decide but I thought a 67-254 alliance would be awesome. They've never paired up before! On Carson, 1024 has to win their division. Last time they won all their pre-CMP events (2008), they also won their division. Also I'm a big 1619 homer.

We'll see what happens!