[Jnadke]

Read the bold text.

When a robot hits your "mechanism", it will hit the midfield barrier, thereby reacting against it purposely. It's pretty obvious this mechanism is intentionally designed to react off the barrier to gain advantage.



The question you have to ask yourself is this: If the midfield barrier weren't there, would a team still be able to get by? If the answer to this is yes, then you are relying on the barrier, thereby purposely reacting on it.

I doubt you can answer no to that question because those arms are a very, very long lever. There's virtually no drivetrain that can push against that 12'+ lever.



There's no difference between this, and grabbing a goal in last years game, and having a mechanism that sticks between two field poles and saying, "Oh, we're not touching the field poles, but if someone pushes us, that's their fault."



In the end, it will come down to the referee ruling at the competition. We'll just have to wait and see.