[Steve Kaneb]

The way our alliance won SVR was consistency. Every match, 1280 and 190 would score on the sides of the rack to start, and 1516 would play defense and blocker. Essentially the idea is defensive tube scoring. If you limit the other team to a row of fewer than 5, they're limited to beating you on bonus points. We were not the best tube scorers at SVR, far from it, but by the end our driver got into the zone a bit, and we did a bit better on the rack. We presented the teams on the opposing alliance a significant problem: they would have to beat our 60 points plus tubes. The fact that 1280 and 1516 were able to get on our ramps for 60 points in all but two matches in the eliminations (first match of the finals, the main battery cable popped out of our distribution block, and the final match we jiggled our way to two 15 point bonuses) made it very tough for our opponents to beat us there.
If you're confident in your ramp bot and your drivers, I'm convinced that you can win any competition by effective tube scoring to limit the opponent. When you match them on the rack, you challenge your opponents to have a better ramp bot and two better drivers.