[Steven Sigley]

Originally Posted by ENIAC

Our batteries are placed in the robot horizontally, but we did this in 2010 with no issues. This year, two batteries, one that was used in the robot and one that was just sitting on a table, showed up with staining beneath the tape holding on the label.

I believe we cracked the glass on the inside of our batteries by playing with them laying horizontally in 2008 at the San Diego regional. No idea if problems like leakage could be related though. (I've never observed any leakage myself)