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Official Q&A: VEX V5 Robotics Competition 2025-2026: Push Back
2875: Ramming an opponent
<GG14>[<GG14>] At a competition, a team has entered just a bare chassis, no scoring capabilities. Every match they play, they can only be defensive, however, they are delibertly ramming opposing robots. Slamming into them, backing up and slamming into them again. There is no attempt to get in their way, no attempt at blocking no attempt to move up against them and try to hold them. just ramming over and over again. One offensive robot lost some parts after several deliberate collisions.
How should this be ruled?
-david
Hi, David & Team 6079R, and thanks for your question.
Rule <GG14> prohibits strategies that are "aimed solely at the destruction, damage, tipping over, or Entanglement of opposing Robots".
The Head Referee for that Match is responsible for determining if a Robot's actions are in Violation of rule <GG14>, and must consider the larger context of that Match. We cannot issue a blanket ruling that appropriately covers all possible scenarios.