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I find most of the comments crazy!!!
I can see no reason (other than safety issues) for a robot to be disabled in the elimination rounds ! PERIOD!!!
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I agree with this statement. With the thousands of hours put into these robots by students who are very emotionally tied to their project, to have their work negated by a timing issue is incredibly sad and personally damaging. From my personal experience mentoring a team affected by the hacking problem of 2012, one of the biggest issues was having the chance to compete, win or lose, being stripped away.
On a side note, from someone that watched the Dallas regional, how often or number of times was this delay of match penalty enforced? Also did the offending team have a significantly longer delay in the eliminations than their normal set up time in the qualifications?
-Andrew