[Rick TYler]

One of my favorite plays was subtle more than amazing. Top Gun was playing defense on a corner goal, against an alliance that didn't have any good center goal shooters. Top Gun drove into front of the goal, turned 180 degrees and then just sat there with its Victors blinking. A few seconds later, Team 360 (with a very good corner dumper, IIRC) had collected some balls and started moving towards that corner to score. As 360 started to move, Top Gun moved forward about six inches. 360 then spun around and drove off -- not even trying to move 1294 out of position. It might have been the brightest single moment in a mildly disappointing tournament, and I don't even remember if we won that one -- but it showed that a good team with a good 'bot respected us enough not to try to drive through us to the goal. It was one of those moral victories we mid-pack teams rely on to keep us going (sort of like scoring five times in three seconds in a match that was then re-run).