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Re: the 50 point not touching the field rule

I'd say that if you have to use "technically" to explain your interpretation, it's wrong. These rules have been written so that the most explicit rule is the right one.
The 50 points are to be awarded to a robot that successfully hangs from the bar in the center. These points are not for a team that successfully hangs from another robot that happens to be hanging from the bar. If another team is successfully hanging from the bar and you lift them up even higher to where they are entirely supported by your robot rather than the bar, they still get the points, because if you were not there, they would still be hanging from that bar. If you are hanging from the horizontal bar, but happen to be leaning up against the upright (like if you grabbed the central bar from the side rather than from on the rasied pedestral) they'll probably check by moving your robot around the upright to see if it would suspend itself if it were on the middle and away from the uprights.

But that's just my interpretation.