[EricH]

Originally Posted by jajabinx124

As long as your robot is in contact with the opponents courtyard you can shoot. Rule G39: ROBOTS are prohibited from launching BOULDERS unless they are in contact with the opponent’s TOWER or carpet in the opponent’s COURTYARD, and not in contact with any other carpet.

That's nice, but irrelevant to the question at hand. It is quite possible to be in a position to NOT violate G39, and still be under the protection of G43. G43 applies whenever your opponents' bumpers are within the Outer Works (read: Defenses and their ramps).

The question now becomes, were the referees assuming that using that area to shoot nullifies the traverse attempt? I could see that being the case, the way G43 is written. But I don't want to try to get into the refs' heads on that, so I'll stop there.