Yes, certainly there can, but you just have to make sure you don't cross the line between strategic and malicious. Blocking is fine. Pinning is fine (though there are rules that both teams and refs have to follow about this, so know them well), slowing down an opponent or getting them stuck on something is fine. Pushing is fine as long as it isn't into something out of bounds. If a robot happens to not be robust and ceases to function under this contact, too bad for the robot. Remember that if two robots hit each other, they both take the same amount of punishment; the modifier is how much of this either robot can take.
Bottom line though: your answer will be in the rules next year, and not in the opinion of a ChiefDelphi poster. What one poster might think is legal, another might (perhaps wrongly) think is malicious. Imagine that poster built the robot you just wrecked. Or worse still, imagine that poster was a referee...
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Originally Posted by Koko Ed
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I don't understand. Are you suggesting the tipping of your robot in that match was illegal?