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Official Q&A: VEX V5 Robotics Competition 2025-2026: Push Back

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2841: Violation for becoming disabled on opponent's park zone

Julie Robbins (Event Partner)
6-Oct-2025

<SG11> says that "Park Zones are protected during the endgame. During the last 20 seconds of a Match, Robots may not directly or indirectly contact the other Alliance’s Park Zone or opponent Robots that are partially or entirely within the vertical projection of that Park Zone."

Questions:

  1. If a robot becomes disabled while touching the park zone earlier in the match, do they still receive a SG11 violation when they're touching the park zone in the last 20 seconds?
  2. If a BLUE robot becomes disabled earlier in the match and gets pushed up against the park zone by a RED robot, resulting in them still touching the park zone during the last 20 seconds, do they still receive a violation? I recognize that you can't force another team into a violation, but this is an action that happened before the last 20 seconds. Would this still be considered RED forcing BLUE into an violation, or would the disabled BLUE team be responsible since it happened naturally during game play and they could not remove themselves from the park zone?

Thanks!

<SG11>

SG11  
Answered by committee
9-Oct-2025

Thanks for these questions, Julie.

We're unsure whether your scenarios include a unpowered/inoperable Robot or a Robot that has received a Disablement for a safety Violation. We can't think of many reasons a Head Referee would call a Disablement on a Robot in their opponent's Park Zone, so we're going to assume your questions are about a Robot that has powered down or otherwise become undriveable. If we're mistaken, please rephrase and resubmit your questions.

  1. Yes, if the Robot put themselves in that position and they're in contact with the opponent's Park Zone at the end of the Match, they should receive a Minor or Major <SG11> Violation.
  2. If a red Robot pushes an unpowered/inoperable blue Robot into contact with the red Park Zone, <GG16> would apply. The blue Robot wouldn't receive a Violation, and the Robot that pushed them would receive a Minor <GG16> Violation.