I disagree. Even if the first seed alliance had beat 1477, 610, and 1241 then it would have been extremely tight. Everyone knew 1114’s climber was broken, so nobody tried(or at least they didn’t try hard) to keep 1114 away from the pyramid. If their climber had been working, I have no doubt that 610 would have been over there keeping 1114 off the pyramid.
Not saying 1114/118/4039 would have won. I was saying that 1241/610/1477 was far from being the optimal alliance for this game.
254/67/1114 would be much closer to optimal.
If I remember correctly talking to some of their guys at champs, they had a concept for a 30 point climber that ended up getting trashed later in the season. The main artifact of this is the lead screw that moves their arm has a ton of power behind it.
Just some food for the thought.
Actually, even in semifinal 1-3, 1114 was defended against on their way to the pyramid, even though heir climb had already failed multiple times. And it was really close without the extra 50 points 1114 could have given to the first seeded alliance. Infact if the number one alliance hadn’t gotten the technical foul called around 1:05 in, the first seed alliance would have won, and I’m not even sure if that was a correctly called technical? Depends on the ref, I guess (as much as we would all love it if it didn’t).
First of all, as mentioned above me, 610 (along with 1477) did try defending 1114’s climb, for example here.
Second of all, (http://www.watchfirstnow.com/archive3.php?id=62472199)
This is my official response. 
Quarters 2-3. For a complete 2 vs. 3 match, the world champions win by 20 points. They barely won with 2630 almost completely disabled the entire match (including auto) and only managing to climb at the end. The world champs may have had good strategy for the other elimination matches, but they won with no small amount luck, preventing them from being the best theoretically.