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Originally Posted by Joe Ross
There's a good connection. The more unbeatable you are, the less chance you have of winning IRI. 71 didn't win IRI in either 2001 or 2002 and 1114 didn't win IRI in 2008 are a few examples.
Only 2 championship winners have won IRI the same year, 469 in 2003 and 71 in 2004.
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Interestingly, you'd have to go back to 2007 to find an IRI Champion alliance without a member that was on Einstein that year.
An interesting trend that was shattered this year: One of the winners of IRI since 2007 went on to win the Championship Event the next year. 1114 in 2007, 67 in 2008, and it looked like 1625 or 469's turn this year... However, if you amend that slightly to "appearing in the final match of the championship", you can include 469's run this year as well as 71's 2006 IRI - 2007 run.