[DukesAZ]

There was definitely something wrong with the scoring system at Phoenix. During a couple matches on Friday, the qualifying points awarded to us in the ranking system were the number of penalty points deducted from the other alliance's score. The pit admin (or whoever was doing the scoring) even told us at one point they couldn't do anything about it, even though it was seriously skewing the rankings. I think they eventually resolved it, but I am still not entirely confident with the final scores at the end of the qualifying matches.

Nonetheless, it was still a spectactular regional, and I would just like to thank our finalist partners 587 and 1212. I hope to play again with 587 in Vegas! The winning alliance was definitely impressive and they certainly displayed a lot of class by calling their timeout to allow 587 to fix their arm. It was an honor losing to them!