THE CURSE HAS BEEN BROKEN!!! For the first time in 25 years, the winners of the Curie Division have gone on to win Einstein! Congrats to the victors, Teams 254, 469, 2848, and 74, for being crowned the 2014 FRC World Champions! The Newton alliance of 1678, 1114, 1640, and rookie 5136 certainly put up an amazing fight.
So, what do we do now that the curse is no more? :yikes:
EDIT: So NOW do we all get free corndogs?!?
This changes everything
Well, next year there will apparently be 4 divisions that have never won on Einstein!
take out the nasa webcast! 
the nasa tv just stop in the middle of the match 2…
Leave it to a bunch of STEM kids to prove there’s no such thing as a curse!
No More excuses for Curie. Now they have to Bring it!!! #andthecursegoespoof
#andthecursegoespoof
The curse has been curied
Of course, Michigan can do anything!
I wonder if Travus has anything to say about the curse being broken?
2590 also brought mecanum wheels to Einstein. What’s left? 
Oh, please, no! Tell me that they at least never touched the Einstein carpet.
Nah don’t worry they’re on the top part of their claw. We’re safe.
We fix it.
Also, has FIRST actually had this setup for 25 years?
Nope. Not by a long shot.
For starters, FRC isn’t 25 years old, though FIRST is. FRC started play in 1992.
Next, there was only one competition for several years, so that knocks that time down further.
Up until somewhere around 2000, teams at Nationals rotated fields–so your division might be on any one of the 5 fields (or was it only 4 back then? I forget).
The latest the current setup could have started was 2003 Championship (in Houston). So, the Curie Curse ran from 2003 (or so) through 2013, then broken. 11 to 14 years, no more, and no less.
If we really wanted a challenge, anybody want to go after the Chicago Cubs’ curse? It’s only been 106 years since they won a World Series, right?
Not even FIRST’ers could fix that unless we made the entire team out of robots.
All I could think of…
I know we had divisions in 2002 - SPAM got a banner, I forget which division (team information doesn’t list it). If you look at Beatty’s Team information it lists Newton division champion for 2001 and 2002 so they must have had divisions then.
The field rotation was with Einstein (it was used as a fifth division field). The divisions were in air conditioned tents at Epcot and Einstein had outdoor seating in the afternoon Florida sun. Each division rotated through Einstein during quals.
There were no divisions in 1999 - I remember the painful alliance selections, we finished 19th seed overall (fell from 8th after our last match), top 16 teams got to pick and we didn’t get picked. So either 2000 or 2001 was the first year of divisions. Pretty sure it was 2001.
Next years game should be robot baseball, and the best bots should play a 7 game series against the Cardinals. It would be amazing.
Ha, when 254 missed those auto balls in the 2nd finals match, we were all screaming “The curse!!!”