[EricH]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

EricH: Do you know how many times a non inspected team has attempted to participate in a match at an FRC event?

Honestly, I have never, ever, ever seen any team that failed inspection attempt to play a match. I've also never seen a team that didn't pass inspection by midday Friday.

I think you're being a bit overly alarmist.

Chris, what is the difference between a TEAM and a ROBOT? Right, the team is the people, the robot is what the people build.

Non-inspected teams play all the time. Non-inspected robots have not. (Though I do know of a case where a team added material after inspection and didn't get reinspected. We found out when they did their eliminations inspection.) How else do you think a team that never took the field with their robot got into the top 8 at an event last year? If they hadn't showed up with a human player, they would not have had that ranking.

I've seen teams that didn't pass by midday Friday, too. Two at the same event, both doing rework to pass inspection.

In short, if a team whose robot has not passed inspection goes to the field and participates in a match, with or without their robot, their entire alliance gets red cards. That's what the rule says. That situation has happened before, but not been penalized other than a 3v2 during the match. <T03> penalizes the entire alliance with a red card.