[Don Wright]

I think it's totally legal to move the goal under the falling area of the small balls, remove the covering ball, then go and knock the bonus ball off causing a lot of the balls to fall into the scoring cylinder.

I think what they are are to get away from with the "No robot can assist a ball from entering the goal" is a robot that opens up a huge back stop or something behind the goals and "funnel" any throw balls into the goals.

Again, everyone is going down the path of very literal meanings of the rules, which is what Dean asked us to get away from. It's just like if your robot grabs the goal and moves it closer to the human player making it easier and quicker to get the balls in. The robot assisted by moving the goal closer, but didn't actually asist in putting the ball in.