[Mr. Lim]

I was just as surprised, being a coach on the other side of the field that we were facing only 1 robot.

I can give a bit of commentary on how things unfolded on our side. For this match 1503 was awarded the "Play of the Day" award from our team, and deservedly so. Despite it being a loss for their alliance, at the conclusion of the match, there was a definite air that the alliance back at full strength would be able to do some serious damage, and they did end up winning the next 2 matches, eliminating us from the GTR.

1503 alone did amazingly well, and my guess is that they showed enough firepower to make the decision for 1507 to pin one of our trackballs for the entirety of the ensuing matches an easy one. 1507 was the most consistent hurdler at the GTR outside of 1114 and 2056. The strategy required scoring support from 1503 and 247, which both were able to provide nicely.

We did make an adjustment on our strategy against a solo 1503. Instead of knocking post-hurdled balls back clockwise as 2505 had been doing all of elims, 2505 focused on lapping instead. There were two pretty good reasons to do this, neither of which involved "going easy on a solo robot." With less hurdles coming over, there'd be less opportunities to knock them back clockwise. Was it worth dedicating 2505 entirely to this strategy? Idle time is wasted time, so probably not. Secondly, we'd broken our robot's "forks" in nearly every match at GTR. In the elims, massive traffic jams were the side-effect 2505's knock-back attempts, making the risk of us breaking even higher. We just wanted to make it out alive and well...