[MikeE]

Firstly I'd like to personally thank 78 and 1099 for being outstanding alliance partners; it was a pleasure to work with you during eliminations, and we are proud of putting up the highest score of the regional.

I would also like to thank our fellow alliance in the finals, 125, 222 & 2648. Both alliances were very strong and it was fitting that the #1 and #2 seeds should meet in a series of hard fought matches.
I think everyone would rather win in a penalty-free match, and I've expressed elsewhere my thoughts on the number of cardable violations this year, but we have to play the game that we are given. After the first match, blue played a strongly defensive strategy which was clearly the right approach. But the way Logomotion is constructed there is an inherent risk in that strategy, and unfortunately it didn't work out for blue in the last match.