G13, G44 and Pinching Rollers

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Wayne TenBrink

The question: If a "red" robot was parked on top of the bump next to the "blue" home zone, would/should they be penalized if a red robot pushed them off the bump and into the blue zone, making them the 2nd red bot in the blue zone? Is that part of normal contact or is that forcing a penalty? (For example, if my alliance is playing against 469 at the MARC and we put a robot on the bump right next to them, would we get a red card if somebody pushed that bot off the bump?)

My gut feel is that getting pushed in would be be considered forcing a penalty and not called. However, if the team that got pushed in did not try to immediately get out, it would then be a penalty. Getting pushed in isn't an excuse for having 2 robots playing defense in the opponents home zone.