[EricH]

Originally Posted by iCurtis

The bracket at the championship that year was quite something. Team Hammond (71) was 1 match away from winning their unprecedented 5th Championship when they got beaten out by an 8th seed alliance led by 190, who became the first 8th seed to win the championship (and I think the second 8th seed to make it out of the quarterfinals in Atlanta in recent history)

Not only that, it was the ONLY alliance that wouldn't have had a second championship team. At that point, 71 was the only team with more than one. It took another year for that barrier to fall--and it fell fast and hard, as two teams in 2008 and two in 2009 joined that elite group of teams.

Talk about a surprise--of the 4 alliances, 3 had previous champions, and none of those three won.