Dominant teams who are not as dominant as they used to be

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

47 will never win Einstein Gold. In their best days they were consistent contenders and in 97, if I my data is correct, they won a not insignificant percentage of all regionals. 233 is great, no doubt, but I don't think they can claim the level of dominance of the team that brought swerve drive to FRC.

47 can never. 233 has never. Slight difference. You could make the case that 47 won a significant percentage of regionals--but if there are only 6 regionals, and you win 2 of them, versus if there are 60 and you win 2 (that you attend), then you're dealing with a factor of 10 more events, so you can't even attend a significant percentage. 233 just iterates a lot during their first competition event.

But if we're going to go down the road of allowing non-competing teams to vie for the designation, we better throw 64 in there. The Gila Monsters tore it up in Arizona, SVR, and L.A. for quite some time until they split after their 2005 World Finalist campaign into two other teams.