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Re: Ideas to move in the direction of making FIRST competitions 'fair'

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Originally Posted by Karthik
I guess Beatty has been so lucky over the years, that they've ended up winning 4 Championships. The Poofs winning SVR eight years in a row, totally random.
I think that's a bad comparison. Those teams aren't good... they're unbelievably fantastic to the point of domination. It's comparing an extreme to the status quo. For instance... the US has a good economy: look at Google. The rest of the economy is going OK but Google outperforms most companies by a long shot.

It's my belief that Ken is right in saying most "good" teams have fairly random success (125 for instance). One year floating in great and others in low. Some teams are great and consistently do well (Delphi teams). Some teams dominate (Beatty).
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