Best Team Without A Win in 2013

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by martin417

Well, I wouldn't say that the 79/379/383 alliance ever did beat them. In match one, where 2415 played, they won 113 to 69. 2415 never played again. they sat out the second match of finals to try to get the Crio back on-line, and in the third match, they called in a backup. I realize it's just semantics, but in order to lose to someone, don't you have to play?

And in the one match that 2415 won, 79 tipped over. The two alliances never met at "full strength." The 79/379/383 alliance was consistently putting up higher scores than the 116/2415/4466 alliance through the entire elimination tournament. Granted, the #5 alliance was rolling three offensive machines as compared to the 2 offensive and one defensive scheme of the #2 alliance, but the balanced scoring of the #5 alliance was also very difficult to defend.

Nobody on the 116/2415/4466 alliance thought the finals would be easy or a guaranteed win, even before 2415's cRio issues. 4466's shooter was no longer working properly, so we couldn't match their offensive style (which would have been our preferred solution), and it was difficult to pick and ideal target for 4466 to defend given that all three of their machines were scoring very well.