[Andy A.]

A couple of things I've noticed:

Lane incursion penalties are very common, and difficult to avoid. Nobody was immune, it seemed. They don't necessarily decide a match, but they can and have.

Minibots are huge. I only saw a few matches where a match was won on strength of tubes vs a minibot.

There were way more minibots present then there were reliable ways to deploy them. Deployment was, far and away, the missing element for a lot of teams. Till finals there were very few real races decided by minibot speed, but plenty decided by sticky or otherwise slow deployment. Reliability is paramount, with speed a distant second.