There isn’t really a benefit to doing this. Penalties in FRC are generally assessed by a ref observing an offending a action, not the end result of it. End-results can sometimes affect the severity of a penalty, but isn’t typically what initiates it.
The closest thing I can think of that I’ve seen would be like if part of a robot breaks and causes parts of the robot to hang outside its frame/bumpers, then an opponent robot intentionally runs into it such that the broken part violates their frame perimeter, thus drawing fowls from the other alliance for frame-perimeter violation (even though there’s nothing the other team can do about it and the “victim” is intentionally putting themselves in that position. In theory G211 should prevent this, but in practice it often doesn’t.
I do wish FIRST would swing back a bit, a bumper on bumper hit (in a legal zone) regardless of the outcome should never draw a penalty for either team.
The damaging contact inside the frame perimeter rules do seem to at least allow building intentionally fragile systems that fail in very visible ways to draw penalties – but we still try (and too often fail) to build robust systems that are not counting on a ref seeing illegal contact.
Yeah this isn’t a great plan --as people said folks will come by your pits and if they need help and if they realize it’s just nonsense / intentional word will get out. Longtime mentors, alumni and volunteers also start to catch on to teams that always have something sketch going on year-over-year and those teams are getting called out to the head ref before matches to point out the “thing” they do and those teams also get reputations that don’t help for alliance selection.
With that said, if an opponent chooses to put their robot in or near a protected zone that’s their own fault for getting between your robot, a protected zone and a game piece/goal. Now, I don’t agree with smashing into them multiple times but if you can make an offensive play it is what it is the opponent should have stayed away from the protected area.
I actually see this year being a season you may take 2-3 fouls in match if the opposing source has a bunch of notes piled up. If you’re close for a melody ranking point and the outcome of the match is pretty certain giving the opposing alliance some penalty points to eliminate a cycle or two for the RP could be worth it.