[roystur44]

I lost my voice today because I was rooting for the Blue Alliance in the finals. Even though we have great friends on 254 and 973 I found myself rooting for the underdogs. The Blue alliance had 1323 and their awesome puncher. It was exciting to hear the boom and watch the ball travel the length of the field, high over the goals and into the announcers video monitor. 1671 laser like shooter and fancy driving. Their El Toro intake was sucking balls up like a vacuum cleaner. Then there was 3970's all around play and heavy D. It was exciting to see 3970 deliver a full speed blow at the right place and exactly timed making the mighty 254 robot miss their money shot.

The Blue alliance had 3 very fast robots who could transition to any position. The Red alliance had a 3 shot auto, a high shooter that was almost unstoppable, and 973's powerful drive train .The Greybots could peel off a defense robot and drive them into a wall. The Blue alliance had great strategy and great shooting but they lacked the consistent 3 ball auto. After the first match they also didn't change up the strategy while the Red alliance made adjustments. In my opinion the blue alliance should have focused their double defense to 973 to prevent the truss shot and jam the inbound to stop the 40 point cycle

One of the things I didn't like was the refs let the defense play hard but a lot of the elimination matches were decided by the ref calls. The points for penalties are too large and the calls can be inconsistent with all the action going on. The announcers also don't announce what penalties were called on what team and the audience wonders what just happen.

One last comment was during the final rubber match you could clearly see there were com problems and both 3970 and 1323 sat idle for precious seconds during the match. I was wondering why a field fault wasn't called. After the first match the rubber match was a bit anti climatic. We can only dream of a rematch WWE Cage Match style. This game is brutal.

Congratulation to 254, 973, 2135, 1323, 1671, 3970. What a show you guys put on.


Two thumbs up to all the CVR staff. This regional is well run and the atmosphere is always like a big party.