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

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2918: GG18 Intentionally Using Block to Park

47126A
14-Nov-2025

Clarification of Q&A 2672 regarding GG18

Would it be legal for a team to put the match preload into a mechanism that would be used to help them park at the end of the match? The team's idea is to put the preload into a "holder" with part of the block exposed. During the protected time, the team would drive into the parking zone and initiate a mechanism that would use the block to keep their robot from touching the field tiles outside the parking zone. This satisfies all criteria of SC4. Would this be considered using the block as a "glove" as outlined in GG18 and therefore be illegal?

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GG18   SC4  
Answered by committee
20-Nov-2025

Hi, Team 47126A.

This would be legal, as long as the Robot and Preload meet all criteria of rules <SG1> and <SG5> at the beginning of the Match.