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Originally Posted by Jacob Plicque
In the Curie Division we were paired twice with robots that did not show up for the match. Also, a non working robot was in an alliance with us. In all 3 instances our alliance lost. Our kids put in over 2,400 hours of work after school to build our "bot". I advocate using a substitute "bot" for these kind of matches. Our hard working kids deserve a fair chance in a match without being penalized by a situation beyond their control. It is nearly impossible to win a 2 vs 3 match which is fustrating to a team. A similar situation also occured at the Florida Regional which cost us two matches. Aren't there penalties for being a no show?
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Jacob,
I certainly empathize, but there's no real fair way to choose a substitute either. And yes, a no show team is penalized. See your manual:
From 9.3.6 Match Point Exceptions
"A team is declared a no-show if no member of the team is in the ALLIANCE ZONE at the start of the match; a no-show team will be disqualified from that match. During the qualification matches, teams can be individually disqualified in a match. A disqualifiedteam will receive zero qualifying points and zero ranking points."
So the team that does not show receives a significantly higher penalty than those that show up, especially if an alliance wins with those two teams that showed up. This was the case on Galileo, when one red team was a no show in match six, however the red alliance was able to win.
Please note that in the human player shows up, this is NOT a no show situation and also please see your manual for the use of QP's and RP's. While there's no doubt it was tough on your team this year and unfortunate that it happened multiple times, one could argue that you'd be penalizing the alliance that showed up with all members.