Teams missing matches, something must be done

[Billfred]

From the manual:

A team is declared a no-show, and will be disqualified, if no member of the team is in the alliance station at
the start of the match. Teams that do not show up for a scheduled qualification match will receive zero (0)
Qualifying Points (QP’s) and zero (0) Ranking Points.

I was inspecting a team on Friday morning when they were supposed to be out for a match. They sent a human player to at least avoid the DQ.

Now, you bring up an interesting idea with the surrogates (which are also provided for in the manual). With the short turn-around required in this modern era of FIRST, it might be a little too tight for a team to get in there at the drop of a hat. But if there were an easy way to get a team on a minute's notice, I'd be open to such an idea. (Good luck doing that in Atlanta.)