[steelerborn]

well think of it this way, you need to build a way to keep balls from landing on top of your bot. Otherwise they would be stuck there and thus acquire a carrying penalty. If you design a slant to keep balls from getting stuck then that would be fine. However if it seems like your purpose is not to protect your bot from a penalty but to manipulate the direction of a ball then I would say that would be a penalty. We will find out tomorrow with the Q&A.