[KenWittlief]

In the past the question of pinning has come up, and FIRST decreed that you can legally hold a bot against a field element for 9 seconds, back up a few inches for a second, then hold them for another 9 seconds, back up a few inches for a second, then hold them for another 9 seconds for the entire match if you want to

In order for pinning to occur you must hold the bot against the field element for 10 seconds. Since the agressor bot in this case was not applying any pressure against the blocked bot, and half the time was not even touching it - there was no pin.

I symphathize with the team that was stuck and could not move. It totally sucks when you cannot move your bot during a match, for any length of time.

Its all part of the game: you can build a bot that can man-handle everything on the field, or you can build a bot that is fast and agile. If you do the latter you must not let yourself get pushed into a field position where your bot cannot do what you want it to do.

The outcome of this is up to you. You can spend the rest of your life thinking your team got screwed, or you can accept that this is part of the game and build your bot differently next year to account for what experience has taught you.