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Originally Posted by Don Wright
My question is this...is this pinning (you can see we are getting a countdown for pinning)? Should this be a red card for the red team for contact with the tower in the end game (regardless of pinning)? If not, is it a viable defense now to just "get pinned" between a team wanting to deploy and their tower?
Again, no fault on the refs as I feel this is a slightly gray area that needs clarification...
Thoughts?
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I agree with the refs/inspectors calls on all of these. For the last one the robot that gets pinned against your tower gets G61 protection from the red card while you are still pinning them. If you were to back away from them at least 6ft for at least 3 sec (to cancel pinning), then after that they are still touching your tower, I interpret that as being a red card and a penalty on them since you are no longer pinning them (causing them to touch your tower).
Lesson learned from Chesapeake, if your partner's robot dies and gets pushed into an opponent's tower, your alliance needs to push them away from it before the endgame to avoid the red card & penalty. This happened twice in Elims.