[nparikh]

I don't know, but I'd think that it'd be easier for a team to win multiple times this year. The way I see it, last year, there was only really one way to score...you cap goals with tetras. This year however, autonomous affords a robot to score up to 40 points in just 10 seconds. Afterwords, 3pters, 1pters and the ramp points + bonus can lead to some nice scoring! With so many opportunities to score, the teams that pick and choose what to do..and do it really well will succeed, in my opinion. Whether it be offense or defense, 3pters or 1pters, or something else which I've yet to see...it's all about doing something well.

Then again, who knows, it might just be chance that last year we had 13 and this year just 7. Maybe less teams signed up for 2 regionals. Maybe the game really is harder. Who knows? I surely don't.