[Petey]

In response to several people who have commented on the apparent loss of defense in this game--

Hardly. It just requires a more ingenious approach to defensive strategizing. To be successful, robots must aggressively defend not the stacking of tetras, but the completion of tic-tac-toes. Sure, robots occasionally had success blocking tetras, but the greater success comes with the tic tac toes.

Example:

Team A has their "home row" full, as does Team B. The center goal belongs to Team A.

Assuming one tetra on the top of each, the score is now
A: 22 (4 tetras at 3 points apiece, one 10 point row)
B: 19 (3 tetras at 3 points apiece, one 10 point row)

Far to close for comfort. However, if A can simply stack on one of the corner goals of B, it is a 23 point swing, because you have scored 10 points for yourself with a new tic tac toe, denied B 10 points because you have destroyed their tic tac toe, and scored three points with your placed tetra.

The big points in this game cannot be scored by robots that blindly stack a ton of tetras. To enjoy consistent success, robots must choose where to stack carefully, and stack only where it will be most advantageous to them.

--Petey