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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

You can only be Hurdling in your own Home Stretch. If you are trying to place the Trackball on the opposite Overpass, you have no protection.

But besides that distinction, there is no difference (in the eyes of the rules) between hurdling and placing from your own homestretch, and you can get dinged for impeding a place. Ref teams not calling it this way would not be consistent with the rules: if a robot meets any of the conditions laid out in <G42>, they have protection, even if they do not intend to hurdle (or it would not be feasible/possible for them to hurdle, like if the entire track was blocked)