Practice shots to align robots

I attended the Bellarmine Tournament this weekend 11/21 (Nothing But Net) and noticed that in the finals, the robots were allowed “practice” shots on the competition field BEFORE the actual match. The teams used this to align their robots for shooting from base during autonomous. Is this allowed?

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