Wow my experience is a lot like yours...
Our team is headed out for a match on Einstein last year (its a horribly long and crowed walk usually) and for the whole night before we had been messing with all the ways to control other peoples robots, disable and break our own so we could just go play at quest all day ect ect.... so we decided to tether up just to make sure its all working, and the OI is completely dead, we all think its a big prank pulled by our programmer so were all laughing, but it wasnt and our match was the next one up. So the rest of the drivers hitail it out to the field and i find my dad steal his wallet and take of running for the innovation first table, i just handed them like 3 credit cards and said i would be right back after the match, it was quite a wild time, and a little more stress than i needed at the moment, we don't let our programmer screw with us to much anymore

, or at least we try and keep him from giving us heart attacks.
asher