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Re: Pinning? Apparently I just don't seem to understand

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Originally Posted by Jack Jones
In my opinion, it would be pinning. The robot was between a rock and a hard place, with the other bot the rock and the ramp the hard place. Going onto the ramp against your will, even if you can, is not a good place to be. A large percentage of those who do end up on their backside. And they are forced to go where the other bot can legally pin them. It's like putting a gun to someones head and claiming it wasn't your fault they jumped of that cliff.
It is fully legal to push a robot onto the ramp from across the field and hold them there. They didn't want to go somewhere, but you pushed them where you wanted them. I didn't look at the video, and I'm not going to. I will say that if you read the rules, you must inhibit the movement of a robot while in contact with a field element or border. The ramp is a field element, so the question really only boils down to "was movement inhibited?"

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