[Jonathan Norris]

I feel that FIRST could have done a much better job with this, (yes its a design challenge and all..). But I feel that the chains should be replaced with a mesh type material, I saw a practice scrimmage which used this and worked beautifully. I haven't seen the game in person yet, But from all the video shots and web casts that I have watched there are a good percentage of the balls bouncing out. It is already tough enough to score in the center with all the defense being played, and having 30+% of your balls bounce out just makes it that much unnecessarily harder. I hope FIRST deals with this problem before there are too many people complaining.