[EricH]

Originally Posted by Robert Cawthon

This was addressed in the 2006 game. Radar guns at inspection and (as I recall) randomly. I was not aware of any shenanigans. But, I don't think the ball speed would affect knocking down plastic bowling pins very much.

Well, not quite radar, but close enough.

The inspection gadget was a "box", open at both ends and about 2 feet long as I recall. Each end had a beam-break sensor. You got one shot through the box (usually some "lucky" team member would hold a deflector plate to bounce the test ball away from everybody else's pit).

For those of you who are interested: Calculate the time for a foam basketball to travel 2' when fired at 12m/s. Pretty simple solution to a pretty easy problem, right? Now add in bouncing off the sides on a bad hold...