[Boltman]

Originally Posted by loonmoon

if anyone knows for sure post asap with support

IMO any touch in your secret passage with any part of their robot touching secret passage carpet is a TECH FOUL against them unless you forced them into your SP to foul them as a general rule of thumb.

Teams are warned that being in opponents SP is a very high likelihood of a TECH FOUL in the rules

G21 A ROBOT contacting carpet in the opponent’s SECRET PASSAGE may not contact opposing
ROBOTS, regardless of who initiates the contact.
Violation: TECH FOUL

G21 Blue Box:
TEAMS should take note that they are putting themselves at great risk
for TECH FOULS if they choose to enter their opponent’s SECRET
PASSAGE

In general by now I cannot see the teams purposely going into Opponents secret passages unless to retrieve a boulder that is close by and "chance it" and even then with the right intake you can retrieve and not touch that SP carpet.

I saw one play where the courtyard ref called the TECH FOUL and the discussion after with head ref deemed it actually a G11 and it was waved of since both bots were in the area and the jostling forced the bot into SP so sometimes its a close call for anyone to make when there is close contact leading up to the flag.