[Ianworld]

People who discount team 25 for playing at so called easy regionals I don't think understand how dominate they have been at their regionals. First NJ is no slouch of a regional. It was 69 teams, many of which are very competitive. When I came to 25 it was clear that no matter what happened 25 was going to win. Even more so than the triplets there is an air of inevitability about their ability to score.

To say teams didn't play good defense against them isn't completely accurate. They are strong, really strong. Their drive seems to be slippery in that they can be easily pushed, but very strong in that I never saw them ever get slowed by a robot when they drove head on. They pushed 522 a very strong tank treaded robot straight backward up the opposing ramp.

People also made the comment that all you had to do was get in front of their shooter to block them. That sounds really simple and I for one kept wondering why teams didn't just sit in front but then I realized that they're trying. 25 just pushes them into the ramp, drives up the ramp, or maybe just twists somewhat and they always get an open shot. Its just inevitable. Robots would try to square them off into a corner when they human loaded but I doubt any team will be strong enough to stop them from getting out and making their shots. Their turret is just so good that they only need a moment to get a hail of shots off and no team is going to be able to play that strong a defensive game against them for the whole match let alone even twenty seconds.

So yes they're good. Better than a triplet arguably. I'd really like to see if they could push a triplet, that would be the deciding difference. If a triplet could square them into a corner and they couldn't get out that would be the end of 25. But for now nobody has managed to even get close to stopping their drive train.