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Re: Warped yellow totes

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Originally Posted by JamesCH95 View Post
Interesting observation. I will check ours tonight and see what it looks like!

In a few games I have pointed out game pieces that were damaged (not horribly, but still damaged) or obviously out of spec (this happened all the time in 2011). My mentioning these observations has never resulted in a game piece being changed out.
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Originally Posted by Gregor View Post
Then the field supervisor at your events needs to step up their game. Whenever a team has brought me a suspect game piece (as a ref or field reset) I've verified that it is in fact out of spec, then I've brought it up to the field supervisor to approve a replacement.
Without a real spec, I can see totes rarely being removed unless they are *very* severely damaged (i.e., lip bent outwards completely at ~75+deg, hole punched in side, massive dent)... really it'll just boil down to how sympathetic your ref/field supervisor is and what they have for spares.

As a sidenote, can I just say how fantastic it is that this is a game piece which teams will actually have a real use for at the end of the year! That said, 2014 balls and 2013 discs were actually fairly useful at the end of the year... a vast improvement over 2009 'moon rocks' anyway.
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