[Rick TYler]

Madison, it's gotten ambiguous. This http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread...highlight=sand earlier thread specifically says, "It is reasonable to expect that sanding belts will damage the balls surfaces, even through incidental contact. As such, under the Parts Use Flowchart, sanding belts would not be permitted." I believe you could make this statement of any friction-based device for shooting or moving balls inside the robot. I know that our best shooting wheel (which meets velocity requirements and has a perfectly smooth surface) sometimes creates small marks on the surface of the balls. A strict interpretation of this rule would lead us to eliminate any friction-based mechanism. Good-bye wheel-based shooters.