[StephLee]

I have two main thoughts after watching scattered matches yesterday and most of the webcasts this morning:

1) I hope the number of yellow and red cards for things like accidental minibot deployment in the middle of the match continues to decrease - it's not fun to watch or to receive.

2) So far, it seems that being really, really good at just one thing won't cut it this year, at least not all the time. The best alliances I've seen so far are ones where everyone contributes to the scoring (or plays defense), and then at least one manages to deploy a minibot to score points from the race. It also seems like consistent deployment is often more important than necessarily winning - cutting your opponent's effective bonus from 30 to 10 by taking second place is still a huge deal.