[EricH]

Originally Posted by MrTechCenter

With this year, especially in elims and at stacked competitions, there were often instances where alliances had to hold the opposing alliance from scoring a (often assist-loaded) ball to win the match and there were times when this won critical matches.

Or lost them... I distinctly remember calling one of those. One alliance pulled a pin with about 10 seconds left in the match, 3 robots pinning one robot with a triple-assist ball that was heading for the high goal. (Oh, and this was the rubbermatch of that series--winner went to semifinals.) 3 different refs were signalling pin, but no robots backed up at all before the end of the match, even after a flag went up. The final score had a 42-point differential in favor of the pinned team.