Final YMTC of 07-08: Bluabot hits the E-stop in an awkward spot

[dtengineering]

I can't see anywhere in the rules where crossing the line is "forgiven". If the trapped Redabot wants to avoid a G22 penalty, perhaps they need some help from an alliance partner to push the disabled Bluabot out of the way.... or needed to design a machine with a bit more "push"...

G36 is pretty specific about this:

"ROBOTS that are disabled in this manner can not incur further PENALTIES (e.g. can not receive a PENALTY for IMPEDING). Disabled ROBOTS may be pushed out of the path of travel without PENALTY."

This means that it is clearly the intent of the GDC that robots be able to push disabled robots out of their way.

And thanks for making the effort to find the YMTC scenarios, however, here's an addendum to this one...

So what if one of Redabots' alliance partners pushed Bluabot backwards, thus pushing Redabot backwards over the line? G23 comes into play... Does Bluabot still count as an "opposing robot"? Does being disabled and pushed count as an "action"? Bluabot can't get any further penalties (and wouldn't even if they were still active, as they are being pushed), but does Redabot get a G22 penalty in this case?

Jason