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Re: Championship 2010 - Atlanta - Your Thoughts Please?

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Originally Posted by alicen View Post
I disagree about no open bids to champs.
My example; my team had not won either of the two regionals we went to and we hadn't necessarily done amazingly, but we still paid our way to champs.
At champs, we were on Curie, and in our last match were against 1114 (and others). We very nearly bested them. We would've won if there hadn't been DOGMA's. On the way back to the pits, on of the 1114 drivers said to us that they hadn't expected to have to really fight for that match.

point is, we were able to do really well (against all odds) even though we didn't "earn our way in" to champs.
Sure, but you're an exception. There are plenty of teams that buy their way in and aren't an asset to their alliances.
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