[David.Cook]

Well let me say that it would be more graciously professional not to bash teams for playing withing the rules as set forth.

More important, I think, is that you have just learned first-hand about one of the more important realities of Engineering. You always have to make trade-offs when you design something.

Speed .vs. Power: Cyber-Blue's 234 was big, top-heavy, but well-designed so it didn't get tipped, and it was slow. But I never saw another bot pin it anywhere, and (unless I missed a match) it always got to the top of the ramp.

Function .vs. Durability: You saw a lot of bots that didn't do much more than fly around the course pushing and shoving, versus bots that had complex mechanisms for stacking, but were liable to tip over or the mechanism would get tangled up somewhere.

Getting pinned in the corner should show you that someone else made a different trade-off than you did. It isn't right or wrong - you both started with the same kit of parts and identical rules. So rather than bashing someone or blaming the FIRST organization, think about this when you design your next bot. You have just had the opportunity to learn something by experience. That is how life works.