I can see how fixing could happen or appear to happen but it should be VERY clear to everyone that if you get to the elimination matches by fixing your score, you will be out of the running rather quickly and it will be obvious to everyone in the finals if you can't perform to the level that your score shows.
This year is just like every past year where luck plays into it tons. If you are lucky to have great alliance partners you have a chance at getting great scores. Sadly some of the worst scores I saw were from 4 fantastic robots that literally gave it everything they had for the entire match and there were usually no bins left and maybe 2 robots on top. Your best chance for a high score is a dead robot or one that isn't performing well and 2 full powered robots.
Also I would like to add that a team like 111 was, well, 'wild' at protecting a stack with a wedge and swerve it is very tough to get around them. (Although Nachi had alot of success) anyone who didn't see the auto mode should check it out, it goes over the bridge and automatically comes over to the stack and parks in front of it ready for operator control. Very nice indeed.
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