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Originally Posted by kawelch
We were left out because the no cascade rule was not followed... but hey no one got hurt.
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You can't make that assumption. There's no guarantee you would have been called up even if the timeout hadn't been available. The other robot may have competed with reduced functionality, or possibly just sat there and done nothing.
I can certainly see a situation where an alliance would choose to compete in a quarter or semifinal round with one robot broken in hopes that said robot will be repaired in time for the finals, rather than permanently replacing that robot with a backup which may not fit well into the alliance's strategy.
Teams are on the standby list just in case an alliance chooses to make use of them. There is nothing saying that they automatically have a right to compete if someone else breaks.