[Cory]

Originally Posted by Treebeard

I must say, in all honesty, that I was suspicious of the situation, but I think if you put yourself in my shoes, you'll understand why. In our qualifying match where we were alliance partners against 254 there were times when your defense against 254 seemed ineffective. Later in the tournament, we were in a qualifying match against you and the defense your bot put on ours was brutal, to the point of heavy penalty points made against your alliance, and we were concerned for the safety of our bot. Then, the Poofs picked you and you went on to beat us in the finals. Hey... there were dots there that, if one were angry and disappointed, one could put together.

There's an easy explanation here. 973 played us on Friday, when they were mostly nonfunctional and played you on Saturday when they had resolved the problem.