yea... i totally agree.. it really depends on your allies. . you can be AWSOME. . .. but if both your allies suck/dead.. . it makes it extremely hard to beat 3 poor/decent robots..
for example, team 1596.. we were doing Awsome (2nd seed), 6-1.. . but since both our allies (one dead, one coulnt stack).. when we were pinned in the corner.. we got like 2 tetras stacked.. ....and lost the match.. even though the other alliance had not so good robots..
and i woulda hated to have one of those penalty making robots on an aliance (during competition matches) as well *multiple ramming, ..etc. . really sucked in the finals how we got the human loader penalty.. .
...1305 played that strat well..