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Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank
Edit: The third 2004 team was 435, not 868.
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Yeah, it was 435, The RoboDawgs
CarNack has predicted this event twice, but has been wrong both times so far:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...93&postcount=1
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...50&postcount=1
Teams have been close many times:
217 won it in 2006, and was on Einstein in 2005
503 won in 2005, and was on Einstein in 2006
254 (even though they havn't won once) has been Championship/National Finalists twice
25 won in 2000, and were finalists in both 2003 and 2006
175 made it to Einstein in 2003, 2004, and 2005
111 won in 2003, and were finalists in 99 and 2001
469 won in 2003, were finalists in 2004, division finalists in 2001 and 2002, and have a legitimate claim that they should have advanced to the Curie finals (and possibly beyond) this year
And many more
The fact stands right now, that 71 not only is the only team to have won twice, they have won
FOUR times. Not only that, they have won 3 times in the alliance era, and once before it (1997). They
REPEATED their 2001 win in 2002...
They will forever be, the first, and only, two time national champion (key word, national....
)
I beleive that one or two other teams may accomplish this feat, but I wouldn't hold my breath. Never have more than 5 teams won in a single year (2001), and the growth in FIRST as a whole is far more than 5 teams. More than 5 teams who will be tremendously sucessful every year are born each year. As times goes on, there will be more and more parity in FIRST, thus is the nature of growth, and it will be become harder and harder to win in a single year, much less win multiple. More and more teams emerge capable of eliminating the "powerhouses" each year. 980, 1038, 1114, 1126, 1305, 1403, 1511, 1523, 1625, 1731 and many others are amognst a new breed of dominant teams destined to win, and win they will.