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our ball pick up was actually designed with the purpose of getting hit and bent, we made is so that if its gets bent and warped out of shape they will still work for the rest of the match, and we made them so they are very easy to replace a simple clamp you remove and they slide out, we then produced about 5 of them so that after a match in which it get bent we can replace it with a new one then straighten the bent one as much as possible during some down time so that we can re use it if needed, works absolutely perfect At WPI we replaced the sticks twice during the entire competition, took about 30 seconds to do so.