Does anyone know the champions from the previous years?
I know most of them but still need some.
2000 - 25
2001 - 71, 125, 279, 294, 365
2002 - 71, 173
2003 - 111
2004 - 71
2005 - 330, 67, 503
1992- 126
1993- 148
1994- 144
1995- 100
1996- 73
1997- 71
1998- 45
1999- 176, 1, 48
2000- 255, 232, 25
2001- 71, 125, 279, 294, 365
2002- 71, 173, 66
2003- 111, 469, 65
2004- 71, 494, 435
2005- 330, 67, 503
2006- 296, 217, 522
2007- 190, 987, 177
There must be a type in there, I keep seeing “71”, “71”, “71” …
(pretty awesome) 
Any of these teams gone out of existence after winning a championship?
144’s inactive (and they won Chairman’s too, but for some reason the 1994 win isn’t listed on their awards), 73 has been in and out on a couple of occasions, and 255 and 232 are gone from 2000. (232 doesn’t even have a info page on FIRST’s site, unlike some inactive teams.)
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Billfred again.
I hate it when that happens!
I think you mean 1996 Chairman’s, 1994 was X-Cats second Chairman’s.
I find it interesting that the only Einstein Alliance without a past Champion won this year. Congrats 190, 987 and 177 for continuing the 1 Championship Cap on everyone but Beatty. Also this is Beatty’s first Championship Finalist finish.
No, I meant their on-the-field win. They won both the Championship and the Chairman’s Award in separate years, but their 1994 championship isn’t listed on the FIRST site.
With 144 you have to define “out of existence” very closely. Team 1038 has the same mentors and same sponsor as Team 144 did from their 1994-1998 team with Walnut Hills HS, and the 1999-2002 team at Northwest HS. We have migrated to our third new school now -Lakota East and Butler Tech- hence the new team #. So Team #144 has only shifted identity slightly since 1994. We like to think we still exist…:rolleyes:
I find it interesting that 987 is the highest team number ever to win The Championship, and before them the highest number was only in the 500’s.
When will present high number teams have enough experience to pull through and score big on Einstein?
It could have happened this year. 1902 had a very good shot.
Ain’t that the truth…we are working very hard to make sure that it doesn’t happen again.
The highest numbered champion has increases every year since 2003 (469, 494, 503, 522, 987), so it shouldn’t be too much longer. You may also note that only two teams over 200 have won Chairman’s (254 in 2004 and 365 in 2007, next highest is 191, and the youngest teams were started in 1997 [22, 67, and 103]). The last three Chairman’s winners have also won the Championship event (365, 111, and 67), and 254 (2004) has been finalists twice (2001, 2005). The only other Chairman’s team to win the Championship is 144.
I think that this might be something that we will see more and more often, teams who win the Championship to also win a Chairmans later in the teams future, or like HOT in the same year. I think it shows that a team can fill all the aspects of FIRST, building a great team and building a great robot.
What was up with 2001’s game? Thats a whole lot of winners!
The game had 4 teams per alliance, and a 5th back-up robot (much like all the other alliance games up until 2005, which were 2 v 2 with a back-up). It was played 4 v 0, where the alliances would face off and keep trying to raise the score until one couldn’t.
There were only 4 alliances per division in 2001 and the first pick was automatic by rankings following this formula
1 paired with 5
2 paired with 6
3 paired with 7
4 paired with 8
Although there were 5 teams per alliance, there were only 12 total “draft picks”, which is less than the 16 in every year since then.
The 2001 Championship Alliance was formed like this
71 (1st seed)
294 (5th seed, auto pick)
125 (1st pick overall)
365 (5th pick overall)
279 (9th pick overall)
I posted about the alliance roles in this thread. Most interesting note from that post is that 279 was an alternate but actually played a key role.
They would play at least 4 and no more than 6 total matches. The alliance with the highest match score won. In the event of a tie, the highest average score won. This happened in the Finals at the Week 1 J&J Regional between the #1 and #2 alliances. As I remember it went like this.
Match 1: #1 puts up a score
Match 2: #2 puts up a higher score
Match 3: #2 puts up a higher score (probably 560 pts)
Match 4: #1 ties the high score (560)
Match 5: #2 puts up a higher score (probably 568)
Match 6: #1 ties the high score (568) :eek:
After these 6 exciting finals matches, they announced that the finals were over, but they didn’t know who won 
. They took a break, called New Hampshire, and announced that average score was the tie breaker and the #2 alliance won.
J&J Champs #2 alliance: 175, 95, 75, 133, & 56
J&J Finalist #1 alliance: 303, 365, 191, 103, & 145