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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
If your robot is broken and requires significant repairs to reach some sort of competitive level, is it right to withhold that information from teams and hope you get pick based on prior competition's performance or reputation? How do you think the #4 or #5 seed would feel when they discovered they spent a pick on a robot that was barely working? I think 217's choice was one of two honorable paths they could have picked. The other option being to decline any pick because they felt their robot truly was completely and utterly unfixable. (Caught fire at the PDB and significantly damaged 80% of the wiring or something. Though even then you could get a driving robot together.)
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The last thing any teams wants to do is decline a playoff invitation. That said, I think what Paul and 217 did (inform the top seeds their robot was broke) was honorable and the right thing to do.
1538 took a HUGE risk in picking them anyway, and it payed off in the first two rounds. But that's where it ended. Nothing more to see; one team felt they could fix a broken robot with potential and picked it regardless.