I agree that it's reasonable to worry, though, the concept of distributed teams is still too young to compete against established, centralized teams. I'd rather

I agree that it's reasonable to worry, though, the concept of distributed teams is still too young to compete against established, centralized teams. I'd rather look toward statistical data rather than the empirical data that we have on hand now. I'd really like to see an essay where you confute this in detail (there's a lot to dissect here that requires further research).