[thefro526]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Someone please tell me that refs can't just "decide" things should be red cards... I would like to think that when I design my robot/strategy I know all the ways I can get DQ'd/Penalized and that some group of "spirit of the game" people can't just decide my strategy is wrong and DQ me.

Technically, T06 and T09 could be applied here:

<T06> The Head Referee may assign a YELLOW CARD as a warning of egregious ROBOT or
TEAM member behavior at the ARENA. A YELLOW CARD will be indicated by the Head
Referee standing in front of the TEAM’S PLAYER STATION and holding a yellow card in the
air after the completion of the MATCH. In the first MATCH that a TEAM receives a
YELLOW CARD, it acts as a warning.

<T09> If the behavior is particularly egregious, a RED CARD may be issued without being
preceded by a YELLOW CARD, at the Head Referee’s discretion. The TEAM will still carry a
YELLOW CARD into subsequent matches

Guess it depends on if you interpret crossing the line in Autonomous to intentionally contact another robot or to steal one of their ubertubes to be Egregious?