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Originally posted by Skanker
I would say yes. High speed ramming is considered malicious. this ISN'T Robot Wars or something like that. The whole idea is not that robots be slamming into things and each other. It is that each robot alliance is to work together to complee objectives, and peacibly (tug of war = peace too  keep the other team from winning somehow.
I know If you rammed my robot at high speeds, and it wasn't from a crazy loss of control, I would consider it malicious. I don't like the idea of people seriously damaging other robots. People put many many many hours of work and tons of money into these things. It would be a shame to see their work destroyed by somebody's malicious ramming (except on shows like Battle Bots or something)...
Just my humble opinion.
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FIRST has stated multiple times that they EXPECT robots to ram each other at FULL SPEED. They have warned us numerous times to build a robust robot, for it WILL take hits.
If your robot gets hit at high speeds, and the ref does nothing, you can't do anything about it. Concentrate on what you CAN control...like making your robot robust enough to take these sorts of hits we've been warned about since the beginning...
"Malicious" would mean something like there is a robot doing nothing in the middle of the field, no goals near it, no balls, and you going full throttle at it and hitting it over and over again without reason. That is my interpretation. That means nothing, because its the Referee's interpretation that counts.