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Originally Posted by Ethulin
Also, if they did, do you consider disabled bots dead? I can see the GDC saying that no, they are not dead, just because it is some how part of their penalty. I would also wander what makes a bot "dead" is a dead bot a bot that can not move at all, its base does not move (they can still shoot). What if they still have one chain left so all they can do is circles  !
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Hmmmm.. Good question on disabled bots. Dead bot implies nothing can move, so if they can drive in circles, they are not dead. If they can shoot, they are not dead.
On the flipside, if one of your partners is disabled or dies on the non-backbot side of the field, I believe you can push them over to backbot position to act as a legal backbot. The difference in this case is that it was your own alliance that causes the action and you are fully complying with the rule to make sure one of your alliance bots is a backbot. So I don't know which way they'll go on this.
I still contend dead backbots shouldn't get a penalty if they were moved intentionally and specifically by an opponent. Hopefully they answer questions in the queue, as I've read they shut Q/A off (which I think they should not do, now there's no way to get official clarifications before regionals). It hasn't been answered as of yet.
Can always ask the refs at each regional I suppose.