Thread: Success of the #1 seeds at the Championship Event
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Re: Success of the #1 seeds at the Championship Event
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Originally Posted by Joe Ross
For reference, you should read Karthik's original thread here: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=29678. The gist is that #1 seeds usually win their divisions at championship. In 2001, 2002, and 2003 3 #1 seeds won, and 2 #1 seeds won their divisions in 2004.


Now lets look at this year.

* 1 #1 seed won their division
o Archimedes #1: 245, 217, 766
* 3 division champions were #2 seeds
o Curie #2: 175, 33, 108
o Galileo #2: 56, 254, 64 (Championsip Finalist)
o Newton #2: 330, 67, 503 (Championship Winner)
* 2 #1 seeds were division finalists
o Curie #1: 337, 1510, 85
o Newton #1: 910, 135, 537
* 1 #1 seeds were division quarterfinalists
o Galileo #1: 1089, 1280, 365

Anyone have any ideas why the #1 seeds didn't do as well this year as in year's past?
I'm not sure about the other #2 seeds this year, but in Galileo, the #2 seed (Team 56 Robbe Extreme) declined an invitation to join the #1 seed. They then went on to win Galileo, and were Championship Finalists. Did any of the other #2 seeds also decline? With so many strong teams in the division, it was easy to decline and still have a dominant alliance.

Maybe, as FIRST grows, this is a preview of how the Championship will be in the future -- so many strong teams that any alliance, 1 through 8, can win it all.
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