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Originally Posted by Greg Marra
This is not true. The rule certainly existed last year. 177 was on Einstein with 201 and 1126. When 1126 ran into shooter problems, we considered replacing them with the captain of the highest seeded alliance from Galileo, 1625. Winnovation was as good as SPARX. In fact, had we substituted Winnovation (an extremely good scorer) for ourselves (an extremely poor scorer, but strong defensive robot), Einstein 2006 may have gone down very differently. But honestly, who wants to substitute themselves out of the championship? It would have given us a better shot of winning, but we wouldn't have been the winners.
The rule existed last year as well.
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Wrong, Greg.
The original three-team alliance shall only have one opportunity to draw from the teams on standby. If a second robot from the
alliance becomes inoperable, then the alliance must play the following matches with only two (or even one) teams. It is in the best
interests of all teams to construct their robots to be as robust as possible to prevent this situation.
8.4.4.2 Einstein Playoffs
IF the above alliance wins their division and moves on to the Einstein Playoffs, at that point the alliance can move
Team C back into play in place of Team D, making Team D the backup again.
In this case, if this alliance wins the Einstein Playoffs, the Grand Champions would be teams A, B, C, and D.
If Team C is not able to be repaired and teams A, B, and D play and win the Einstein Playoffs, the Grand Champions
would be teams A, B, C, and D.
If Team C is not able to get repaired and if one of team A, B or D gets damaged in the Einstein Playoffs, thus creating a
need for a third robot, then the alliance may bring up Team E (the highest remaining seeded team from their division,
which did not participate in the Divisional Playoffs) to replace the damaged robot.
In this case, if the alliance with Team E wins the Einstein Playoffs, the Grand Champions will be teams A, B, C, D, and
E.
In any case, once a replacement robot is used in the Einstein Playoffs, none of the teams who sat out a match can come back
into play.