[EricH]

Originally Posted by Ari423

If you decide you don't want to be GP and want more time to work on your robot, it's a lot easier to not bag your robot and fake the lock-up form. Same effect, a lot less work.

But I'm confident no FIRST teams would do that.

Intentionally, you mean. There have been several that did something like that accidentally, not realizing it was against the rules. The fun part is when you put the bag on in the parking lot... in full view of the inspectors watching for teams to come in... Not sure exactly what happened with that one, but I believe the LRI was called over.