[liam.larkin]

No

I think you are all trying to hard to read into the rules it seems to me quite simple

<G17> HOSTBOTS may not DEPLOY a MINIBOT. (This is under the heading of Teleoperated Period. So you cannot deploy until the end game)

Now Deployment means DEPLOYMENT – the act of positioning a MINIBOT on a TOWER. DEPLOYMENT starts when the MINIBOT breaks the vertical projection of the TOWER BASE circumference. DEPLOYMENT ends when the HOSTBOT is no longer in contact with the MINIBOT. (Related form, DEPLOY, verb)

So okay with that said robot is sitting there 10 seconds hit End Game Begins

At this point

<G20> ROBOTS/HOSTBOTS may not contact their own TOWERS above the DEPLOYMENT LINE. Violation: PENALTY for contact. TOWER is disabled if MINIBOT is DEPLOYED above the DEPLOYMENT LINE.
<G21> HOSTBOTS may DEPLOY MINIBOTS only onto their ALLIANCE‟S TOWERS and entirely below the DEPLOYMENT LINE. Violation: RED CARD
<G22> HOSTBOTS may not contact their ALLIANCE‟S MINIBOT once any part of it has climbed above the DEPLOYMENT LINE. Violation: TOWER is disabled

So basically hostbots may touch "their" towers below the deployment line and once the minibot is not in contact with the hostbot you can no longer manipulate it.

Additionally per G19 the Hostbot may not provide an vertical assistance to the minibot up the pole........

That about covers it