Its funny, i actually just started a thread for predictions 
Mind switching it over?
Was about to.
Here are the alliances with OPR, in case anyone is interested
Archimedes:
2415 987 2959 239.4
33 469 1519 180.2
2468 254 11 214.9
868 2590 71 194.7
126 3310 1756 199.2
948 20 973 211.0
3467 379 365 131.2
4450 1334 1660 123.8
Curie:
1678 148 862 189.8
1983 3539 2996 197.3
4814 67 1918 139.1
2056 967 3990 199.1
1310 3824 1684 226.3
1717 234 135 158.8
359 233 16 170.7
4564 103 2168 162.2
Galileo:
118 1114 4039 226.4
2169 3284 2175 165.2
1425 2474 2337 178.2
2630 111 3641 174.2
1241 1477 610 146.7
3656 1806 4334 171.1
2338 2512 1323 173.7
245 1732 27 182.0
Newton:
1538 1986 217 205.5
128 195 1676 205.1
303 3476 1640 186.1
3997 829 1741 140.4
341 68 2826 161.0
2252 1718 141 163.3
2052 2054 225 179.5
1569 175 190 152.0
I’m willing to bet that this year’s champs will be the youngest team yet. Currently 1114 is the highest numbered team that has won Einstein (2008). This year, there are only two alliances that have lower numbers: Archimedes 6 (948, 20, 973) and Curie 7 (359, 233, 16).
Archimedes webcast just got audio back.
something seems off here…
Note that the Curie alliance won the first match against Archimedes by a significant margin and was very competitive until 1678 went dead in the second match. Much more competitive than the conventional wisdom thought.
Interesting that the alliance with the lowest OPR on Galileo ends up winning it all.
Would love to see some video of the Archimedes elims. I was unable to watch them as I was over on Curie, but man those scores are insane, with the almost all of them seeing losing scores of 200+. In particular, semifinal 2-2, which had a score of 266-216!
For what it’s worth, the #2 alliance on Curie called in first backup 1138 Eagle Engineering to replace 2996 before Semi 2-2. 2996 was having some CAN related electrical/software issues in SF2-1 and could not continue.
- 1983 3539 2996/1138