Predictions Week 5: Ascending the Ranks

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Originally Posted by Looking Forward

Of the 123 teams attending the two Minneapolis regionals this weekend, 117 are from Minnesota. While the Twin Cities' events don't appear to be as competitive as the Duluth events a few weeks back, the State of Hockey is starting to come of age in FRC, both in the quantity and quality of the competitors. 525 represents the lone hope of taking a medal away from the 10,000 Lakes Regional to another US state. But the Swartdogs should have a good shot, as they already grabbed gold at the Northern Lights event (though much of their alliances' scoring was done by 2169) in 2013 and are the defending 10K Lakes champs. Many of the locals are competing for the first time, but 2052 and 2705 look poised for a run at the title after strong events in Duluth (including the KnightKrawlers captaining the #7 alliance to victory).

This was a pretty spot on prediction with all 3 mentioned teams making it to champs. It ended up with 2052 KnightKrawler being the number 1 overall and choosing 525 with the first pick. We went on to win the Regional with a great 3rd bot 3244. Since both 2052 and 525 had won regionals we opened up a couple wildcard spots for 2705 and 2502, both very deserving teams.