[jonathan lall]

Are you asking me, or the people that wrote the rules? The carpet clause is explicit and not open to interpretation, but furthermore, I'd do it given the chance, and I can justify it in my own mind by saying I'm preventing that robot from reaching a specific goal, rather than parking in front of them in order to take them out of the game, which is the reason the rule exists in the first place. Stopping a robot from a specific target is still GP and is strategic; pinning them for the whole match is lame (though running down 10 seconds is certainly viable).