[s_forbes]

In the finals at the Phoenix regonal, the red alliance consisted of two very acurate and fast shooters that could nail the goal in autonomous (team 1241 and the high rollers) and the blue alliance had only one working 3 point shooter, that looked no where near as impressive as red's. It looked like a sure win for red.

Just as predicted, red won the first match. But on the second match, team 60 coded their robot to go play defence. It went in a bee line towards the red alliances prefered shooting area and managed to knock one robot sideways and block the other robot's shots at the same time! Meanwhile, a corner scorer (team 1006) scored ten points for blue, and they won the autonomous and managed to use some spectacuar defence to win the second match.

The same thing happened in the third match, blue won autonomous and played the best defence that I had seen at the regonal. At the very end, blue managed to get all three robots on the alliance platform and the crowd went nuts.