Offizielle Frage&A: VEX V5 Robotics Competition 2026-2027: Override

After a match, a team argued that their opponents had committed the following actions in a match:

1. The opponents had repeatedly incidentally contacted their alliance goal without knocking any elements off of the alliance goal, thereby not changing the score of the match. <SG9> defines this as a moment of interaction between the robot and opponent alliance goal.
2. The opponents had pushed them once into their own matchloader in the game momentarily, which could be seen as a violation of <SG13>.

We ask the following questions:

1. Do the repeated incidental contacts between a team and opposing alliance goals without any game elements being knocked down escalate to a major violation at any defined point?
2. Does the incidental pushing of an alliance robot into their own matchloader by their opponents count as a major or minor violation? How can this be decided?
3. Should the violations described in parts (1) and (2) be combined for a greater/major violation, or should they be considered separately as separate violations in a match?
4. The team which had argued that these incidents occurred in the match had definitely committed a major violation during the match. How are referees to resolve this match in elimination rounds; a double disqualification, or only a disqualification for the team which had more Major Violations/the stronger case for having committed a Major Violation?

Thank you!