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Re: Durability of tetras
I served as a volunteer at the SoCal Regional this year performing tetra repair on both days of competition and was dubbed "Dr. Tetra". Woodie autographed my FIRST crew t-shirt right under the Dr. Tetra "insignia"  .
FIRST had just acquired new clovers that were punched from colored poly-propylene to replace the thicker low density polyethylene clovers. On Friday, broken tetras came off of the field frequently - sometimes 2 or 3 in a single match. On Saturday, I was joined field-side by my son, Clayton - he had a blast assisting "Dr. Tetra". By time we reached the elimination round, most of the tetras had the newer clovers, which seemed much more durable. In the semifinals and finals, I think there was only one broken tetra is spite of the much more intense play.
I was surprised to see many tetras in Atlanta with the thicker polyethylene clovers, probably something only a tetra repair specialist would notice...
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