[Goldeye]

Although I was thrilled to see the unbelievable performance at the Einstein finals. The goals that high....wow. However, I was very surprised by the way the game evolved. I really expected the game to become much more defensive in a very specific, focused way, as teams realized that the other team simply is better at capping. That is, strategy becoming ever more important. However, this wasn't the case. The very finals were determined by who got on the goal last. However, what I wanted to see were teams preventing other teams from scoring by taking advantage of the advantages of their own bot, and flaws in the opponents. If a bot is weak and slow, staying in between it and the goal it needs to take would be more than reasonable. Same thing with a bot that can easily lose their tetra. Knocking it loose (whether due to an unstable, shaky base, or lifting it out of their ineffectively designed gripper) is unbelievably effective. There were bots that would have been able to do such things, and didn't. I was extremely disappointed to see how one dimensional the game became - capping on top of your opponents tetras...over and over.

That said, it was overall an amazing season. No matter how it was played, the games were close and fair. Though there certainly were some major referee messups here and there, they happen, they're human. There were amazing robots, by both rookies and vets, and it was amazing to see them compete.