Knocking out Doubler Ball

[Gabriel]

I think it has to do with your intention. If your robot is sitting in front of the goal with a big net extended to catch your opponents small balls as they enter the goal, thats goaltending, however, if you are removing a large ball from the top of a goal and you happen to block a shot it shouldn't be considered goaltending as long as your intention is clearly to remove the ball, not to block shots. If you remove the ball and then sit next to the goal for a minute with that ball hovering right above the goal, that might be goaltending, but otherwise I think its a little unfair for FIRST to say that any interaction with the top of an opponents goal is goaltending if the intention is clearly otherwise.