Ungracious professionalism at internationals?

[w1n5t0n]

After an amazing experience at internationals, there are a few things about gracious professionalism that I found lacking, specifically something that happened in our division. A team whose robot was broken was with us in our last round . According to them, their drivetrain was completely broken after falling off the pyramid and they couldn't get the shooter working. We lost that match by 5 points and because we still ended with enough autonomous points, it cost us the second spot in seeding. When alliance selections came around, one of the team's coaches went around telling teams not to pick them because their robot was completely disabled. Then during selections, the first alliance captain selected them as a second pick. The majority of teams were confused at this selection and assumed their scouting didn't pick up the fact that they were broken. The team then went on to finals in our division, performing as though they did not have any issues. I am not accusing any teams of stacking the odds. It is completely possible they did have an issue but, it does seem likely that teams were trying to bypass FIRST's system where lower teams can have a chance to compete. I believe this is against the spirit of gracious professionalism and FIRST.