[rsilverstein]

You also have to take into account the availability of balls.

Let's figure that an alliance has two robots playing offense and one on defense.

There might be a point in the last 15-20 seconds of the match where they just scored a significant number of balls they control and will have to wait a while for the balls to be put back into play, controlled, and then scored. It would be much easier for the robots to then just turn around and hang on the tower.

That timing might just the difference between a finalist and winner.

While I agree that hanging will be less valuable in the Championship eliminations, as ball scoring becomes more prevalent, I think we'll definitely see it a few times.