I talked to the Chickens during the event. They were having serious connection issues.
As well as new drivers.
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While usually I would agree with you. I think the past few years it has been much less competitive than usual possibly due to the change of elims
I talked to them a lot during the event, they had rookie driverd as well as issues with their limelight not working for the entire competition.
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Beach Blitz, because I help run it, and running an offseason event is hard 
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Week 0s…
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Oh, yeah limelight not working is near fatal this year for offence, lining up manually for hatches is challenging. That explains why they seemed to play defence so much.
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We ran all of our events before championship without using limelight at all. And at championship we used it roughly 50% of the time.
We only ever used it on lining up to the HP station, never to score.
So while I agree using limelight/vision tracking can speed up play, by no means is it needed to perform at a high level. Practice is the biggest thing which is likely what hurt 217 more. That as well as other mechanical issues they had; I know their one of their solenoids was locked for a match, and I heard they had other issues.
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There was a good amount of match planning in quals too. Source: was also at the event.
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In matches where we did not initiate planning beforehand, I’d say a solid 2 had any strategy pre-queue. Yes, one of those 2 was with you guys
The back-to-back Ramp Riot champion hyping the competitive level of the event? Surely you have no alternative agenda 
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It’s pretty good—It’s fighting with BE and MKM for the top FMA offseason by competitiveness. I wish they’d ditch the no-pick-in-the-top-8 rule though.
Whats BE?
Brunswick Eruption I think
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Yep, that’s it
I definitely think Ramp Riot is typically the most competitive of the FMA events. There’s some year-to-year variance (and some of the NJ teams bowing out due to this year being a 2 day event may hurt the 2019 quality and Havoc’s schedule shift), but RR usually has basically all of the Eastern PA competitors and a solid selection of the NJ/DE competitors. BE misses too many of the Philly-area teams (1640, 1218, 365, 834, 2607, sometimes 341). RR misses 25 and 303, but typically still has 1676, 3314, 1403, 2590, and sometimes 1923 representing a strong NJ contingent. MKM is in the conversation as well, but I feel like it has the highest fluctuation in specific team attendance so it varies.
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I haven’t the slightest idea what you’re talking about
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Personally, I like that rule set. It gives the elims field a new layer of depth and can balance out the bracket leading to some really tight matches. Like the 6 v 7 semis from last year.
I havent actually been to an event with that rule but from hearing about it various events I feel like it has its positives and negatives. It can balance out the bracket like you said but it can also lead to weirdness in where you want to rank, suddenly being rank 8-6 is way worse than being rank 11-9. As long as no one feels compelled to throw matches though
At an event like Ramp Riot where teams only have 4 or 5 qualifying matches, the rankings are already very noisy and not a great determination of the top 8. It’s hard to purposely determine your position with so few matches.
We’ll see if the rule set changes with a 2 day event and more qualification matches this year.