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At Lone Star we never tried to lose, we tried to intentionally win. The semi and quarterfinal matches we won by pushing bins to our side, protecting our stacks, and then getting both robots on the ramp (actually every match we won, except in finals, our robot was on the ramp) The second match is easy to win if you win the first, if you watch the second semifinal match at Lonestar we let our opponent score 1 point, we cleared their area and kept them off the ramp. In the first finals match we lost by 62 points, both robots failed to make the ramp because of 118 KOH which we pushed off in the last seconds only to continue to roll down the ramp and end up touching several of our boxes. In the second round the other alliance worked to clear our area. With less than a minute we managed to get intangled on top of 704's robot where we were stuck until five seconds left, when we found they had severly damaged our drill motors and we couldn't move. Luckily for us, our alliance and one of the other robots were on top, and a Human Player foul negated their two stack. The score was 35 us to 33 them and we won by 6 points overall. If the human player hadn't of messed up or if their robot hadn't of been on top we would have lost. But everyone has to play the game like this so I think it is fair enough. But I see having 3 matches as a good idea not to mention more fun. Even though coming back after one match when you thought you had lost was a thrill.
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