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Originally Posted by big1boom
The slight upward motion of the 4bar does make it seem illegal, unless you could show them that your 4bar swings out, stops, then the minibot climbs under its own power.
The tube hitting the base during endgame is technically a red card, unfortunately.
The last one should have been a red card for the team in contact with your tower, during endgame, absolutely no contact is allowed with the opposing towers/robots at the towers.
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There was a double disqualification in one of the semi-final matches at Chesapeake. The red alliance received their red card after an apparently disabled robot was pushed against the blue tower base with about 40-50 seconds left where it remained until the endgame. So it does appear that the red card is automatic even for non-intentional touching.
This means that a non-moving robot is at severe risk of causing disqualification of it's own alliance, since it will typically start very close to the opposition's tower.