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Re: [FVC]: Longer competitions

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Originally Posted by billw View Post
The one other item that needs to be addressed is forcing a team to compete when their partner is a no-show. My solution is to have all teams that have just competed to remain ready to fill in for any teams that are not present or become disabled during a match. The last grouping of the day would be used as backup for the first grouping.
While your solution may be hard to actually implement (such as deciding which teams need to stay behind, how those matches would factor into rankings, how you can input a surrogate team 'on the fly' with the scoring software, how you would eliminate the other team from that match, etc.), a similar solution of a 'placebo' robot might be feasible. In the FRC almost a decade ago, there used to be placebo robots that were used as 'stand-ins' for no-show teams. They never actually did anything (one was a remote-controlled vacuum cleaner), but they were there just for the show.
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