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Originally Posted by BrendanB
FIRST mentioned several times that there would be new balls for elims. We asked around at our regional (CT) if new balls would be introduced and they were. Ask and you shall receive. FIRST HQ doesn't directly control the field reset crew and the introduction of new balls. It is your responsibility to know your field at competition. Once those fields leave Manchester they are in the hands of the event.
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I hope that I am misremembering, but when the question was as at Champs concerning on what schedule the balls would be replaced, we were told that it would be 'like the regionals' (implying all the regionals were the same), 'there is no set schedule'.
I know they definitely did not overturn the Q&A that reads:
Q: Our team has discovered variances in ball diameter and compressibility. The balls in the KOP can be compressed approx. ½” more than the balls we got from AndyMark. We wish to know if the balls at competitions will be like the KOP balls, similar to the ones received from AM, or a mixture of both?
A: All Balls with the FIRST/Foot Locker Foundation logos are all from the same batch - so, a mixture of both.
I think we can all be fairly confident that the elim balls were not a "mixture of both" the AndyMark and KOP balls. I understand the Q&A is not heralded as "official" enough (I file this under negative lessons every year...) in all circumstances.