Ungracious professionalism at internationals?

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There are many, many different possible scenarios that may have happened.

Take for instance (and I've seen this happen before) where the exact situation happens. A team informs all the other teams in the top 8 that they are broken, and do not expect to have the issue fixed in time for elims. The interested alliance takes a look at their robot and says "hey, if we work together, we could just get that fixed in time!". No one else attempts to pick the team, the interested alliance picks them, they get fixed in time, and all is good.