Can a dead robot still score?

[northstardon]

Having one of your alliance partners go down during a qualifying match is really going to hurt this year. Aside from making it that much harder to outscore the opposing alliance, an alliance robot that’s dead (or disabled) on the field makes it impossible to win a capture RP (unless it just happens to die parked on the enemy’s batter).

Or does it? Can a downed robot shout, “I’m not dead yet!” and score points even after it’s been thrown onto the cart?

CROSS

An act performed by a ROBOT, such that it starts free of contact with an opponent DEFENSE and completely in the NEUTRAL ZONE, traverses the DEFENSE such that its BUMPERS go fully between the adjacent SHIELDS/GUARDRAIL, and ends up fully contained by the opponent’s COURTYARD

CHALLENGE

An act performed by a ROBOT, such that at the conclusion of the MATCH, the ROBOT is fully supported by the TOWER, but hasn’t met the criteria for SCALING the TOWER.

Note that these actions are defined not by what a robot does, but by where a robot is located. The term “traverse” is not defined within the manual, but is commonly defined elsewhere as “traveling over” or “passing over”. I don’t see anything in the definitions that requires a robot to cross a defense or reach the batter under its own power.

So can a dead robot still score points or help score ranking points if an alliance partner pushes it across a defense, or pushes it onto the batter?

Somebody might suggest that the phrase “An act performed by a ROBOT” implies that the robot has to actually do something (i.e. “act”) to facilitate the point-scoring event. But you could just as easily claim that a robot is acting when it allows itself to be pushed from Point A to Point B.

A related question is whether a robot could score auto points for reaching if an alliance partner pushes it into the outer works (reaching is defined based on where a robot is located at the end of the auto period).