[Kevin Sevcik]

It looks like it's legal. As long as red isn't in the loading zone, blue can't be penalized. The trick is for the Blue team to keep the Red team completely out of the loading zone. And as the Q&As and updates suggest, it should be obvious that your robot is in the loading zone, so the ref won't be watching closely for when the red robot barely touches the loading zone. The real problem is leaving one alliance mate to fend for himself against 3 other annoyed robots.