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Originally Posted by hsekhon27

This might be because the ball had a different density. We built our prototype and it wasn't shooting all the balls at the same spot. We figured out that this was because many balls have different densities

Yeah, we actually just figured that out as well. When testing a brand new against a 2 week old ball, there was a great difference in the trajectory and the distance traveled. I think such long range shots in the competition are going to be pretty rare simply because the balls are so unpredictable. You might find a "sweet spot" in practice, but once you get a different ball that spot might change.