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Re: Maintaining Ball Size at Competition

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Originally Posted by Taylor View Post
Depends on your manipulator. If the loader/ejector is relient on the ball having a specific size/surface consistency, the results on Saturday afternoon may be much different than those on Friday morning of competition.
Hence the reason having a ball launcher that is insensitive to inflation was weighted high on our design matrix.
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