[Herodotus]

I can't really say for certain now. 1114 is definitely an awesome team, and no doubt they'll likely be in the finals. I also know from personal experience now that 330 is an absolutely awesome alliance partner and team as well, so they will likely be in the finals. But at Atlanta they decided not to form an alliance so who's to say they will do so at IRI. Also we did almost beat both 1114 and 330 when they were on the same alliance. I can't remember who was their third partner or unfortunately who our two alliance partners were in that match but it was one of the last qualifying matches on Curie and we only needed one more tube and our alliance would have beaten both 330 and 1114.

That doesn't diminish the fact that both are awesome teams, two of the best teams this year (if not the two best). But it does go to show that matches tend to be unpredictable.