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Re: Crazy Robot Inspection Stories
Last year at a regional in the western US, a team built a robot with illegal motors in the drive system. In spite of urgings from inspectors and offers of assistance of several teams, they refused to change their robot. Needless to say, the robot did not pass inspection and was not permitted on the field.
This team sent human players to every qualification match and they found themselves near the top of the standings at the end of Friday! After a loss on Saturday, they dropped just out of the top 10 for alliance selections. About midway into alliance selections, they were listed as the top seed among the available teams. They were picked by a team that had not scouted and the team with the illegal robot accepted the invitation! 
In the elimination round, they were replaced by a backup robot.
This year's rule of issuing zero seeding points to teams whose robot has not passed inspection for the match will prevent this from happening.
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2004 AZ: Semifinals, GM Industrial Design; SoCal: Winners, Leadership in Controls; Championship: Galileo #2 seed, Q-finals; IRI: Champions
2005 AZ: #1 Seed, Xerox Creativity; SoCal: Finalist, RadioShack Controls; SVR: Winners, Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technologies"; Championship: Archimedes Semifinals; IRI: Finalist
2007 LA: Finalist; San Diego: Q-finals; CalGames: Finalist || 2008 San Diego: Q-finals; LA: Winners; CalGames: Finalist || 2009 LA: Semifinals; Las Vegas: Q-finals; IRI: #1 Seed, Finalist
2010 AZ: Motorola Quality; LA: Finalist || 2011 SD: Q-finals; LA: Q-finals || 2013 LA: Xerox Creativity, WFFA, Dean's List Finalist || 2014 IE: Q-finals, LA: Finalist, Dean's List Finalist
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