[EricH]

Originally Posted by AndyBare

If the rule was revised so that instead of being:
G21 A ROBOT contacting carpet in the opponent’s SECRET PASSAGE may not contact opposing ROBOTS.
Violation: TECH FOUL
It was:
G21 A ROBOT contacting carpet in the opponent’s SECRET PASSAGE may not CONFLICT opposing ROBOTS.
Violation: TECH FOUL
Everything would be cleared up.

Conflict - verb (used without object)
1. to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash:

Or "may not initiate contact with". That would probably clear it up even more.

The way I see it, there are three ways to clear this up.

1) Close the secret passage to any opposing robot.
2) Change G11.
3) Change G21 to clarify that you can't play D while in there (by any number of ways--though I don't think that using conflict as a verb will clear things up, seeing as that's an uncommon usage.)