At a tournament, our alliance partner's robot had a mechanism get jammed in the wall of a legacy field perimeter due to the plexiglass flexing outward, preventing them from moving for the duration of the match. Given that T10 states "Field Element tolerances may vary from nominal by up to ±1.0 inches," the ref had a hard time deciding whether or not to replay the match, but chose to not replay in the end, which was a match-affecting decision in finals. I'd like to know if this replay eligibility ruling still applies for field perimeters and specifically legacy metal competition fields, which are not intended to flex in this manner but still can, unlike the new portable fields that are physically impossible to deform. With the rising popularity of mechanisms such as the one our alliance partner used, it is also possible that this situation may happen again in future tournaments, which is why our team wants clarification on this rule.
