Historically (particularly on practice day), teams could send their payload specialist (then known as the "human player") to play even if the robot was not present. This avoided a disqualification for no-show. From my initial reading, 9.3.6 would appear to permit that.
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A TEAM is declared a no-show if no member of the team is in the ALLIANCE BASE, FUELING STATION, or OUTPOST at the start of the MATCH; a no-show team will be disqualified from that MATCH.
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Note that no-show is based on team member presence not robot presence.