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Originally Posted by Bob Steele
Art makes some interesting points.
I think the simplest thing to do is take any empty trailers off.
Sure you only have two targets for scoring but the other team has only two robots to do scoring. I would have to say though that this would PRECLUDE the other team from using their human player.. So if you don't show up with a robot you don't get to score from your position with a payload specialist. That double hit evens the scoring in my opinion...
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In order to make this work you would have to require that the trailer gets removed only if NO member of the team shows up (a true "no show" in the FIRST rules), such that the team would receive a DQ for the match. If you do not, a team simply has to send only their driver to the match (with no robot) and they will get points for the match, which means that a good team playing with bad partners can easily ask their partners to not play, providing a distinct advantage without a largely negative effect on their partners.