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Originally Posted by NinjaMunkeeNao
One thing is that the balls you purchased aren't (I'm assuming anyway) official FIRST game pieces, so there's a possibility the actual fuel pieces aren't as frail?  There are a lot of knockoffs that break easily. |
All game pieces we possess are those distributed in the KOP.
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Originally Posted by NinjaMunkeeNao
But don't feel bad about it! Like I said, Wiffle balls tend to crack if pressurized enough so I think everyone, even refs and rest crews are expecting to see a lot of cracked pieces throughout the day and probably won't point any fingers about it.
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Although we will do everything we can to avoid damaging gamepieces, we are more concerned with the broken fuel particles impacting our own game play and that of other teams. A ball which is effectively in two pieces tends to not go through a intake and shooting mechanism very effectively.
I think that the conditions which caused the breakage( ball against wall) are going to be very common with robots crushing balls when placing gears, shooting, intaking and feeding from hoppers/chutes.