CALIFORNIA?

Sac was a great regional. What it came down to was three capers can outscore two capers and a defender bot, unless the defender bot is 100% effective. The difference in score is dramatic, because if your alliance caps six times , but your opponents cap 8 - They may end up controlling 4 more rows than you. So based just on tetra points there is something like 21 to 25, but on final score the result is 75 to 21.

And I don't care how good your defense bot is, it can't stop two robots from
scoring. It might stop one, but not the other from hitting the center goal, and if it is successful defending the center, it is leaving another goal open for uncontested capping. In that finals every goal was capped at least once, most twice, a couple had three! So the only successful defense is to with gracious professionalism push one of your opponents over or completely disable them. I don't know about you, but I would never try to play the game this way. (someone who did was DQ'd and lost the match and the round.) Still the Quarter-Finals of elimination was the closest thing to Battle Bots I ever saw at a FIRST event.