[KrazyCarl92]

My sports analogy would be Yankee Stadium in 2009. The field just so happened to be designed to allow balls hit to right field to leave the ball park much more easily and resulted in many more home runs for the yankees than their opponents, based in large part on the heavy left-handed batting composition of the team. The field was probably not made like this deliberately and it couldn't be anticipated that the Yankees would be so dominant, much like how in FIRST, while the game designers may have anticipated this strategy, they could not have possibly thought an alliance would score every 4-5 seconds. Now with Yankee stadium, they didn't make the team change it during the season because that would just change a part of the game in the middle of the season; FIRST should treat this situation likewise. I think we could all agree that even though the Yankees may have gained a slight advantage because of the balls flying out of right field, they were also a very skilled team. And in comparison, a 469-looping-bot an advantage based on the rules (especially when paired with a good striker), but kudos to them for coming up with a great design, making it happen, thoroughly anticipating how to stop others from stopping them (border-line within the rules), and executing their strategy painstakingly well. All FIRST can do is learn from it and make the rules less one sided in the future, although in reality anybody could have done this. The only thing I don't like about it is that it makes for a less exciting game.