[EricH]

Originally Posted by aldaeron

The video isn't great (we borrowed an old camera from the school) so I am relying on my human player who was 5 feet away from it. He said it was a pin.

And the ref said it wasn't. Unless your human player also happens to be an FRC ref, I'm inclined to believe the ref. For one thing, he was about 3 feet away--and he was looking at it.

Again, a pushing match is not a pin, unless one of the robots is against a wall, goal, or robot (or other field element, in years with other field elements) and cannot move. In such cases, the ref will start the pin count. If such is not the case, the other team can hold you just about indefinitely.