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Originally Posted by Cory
A trackball can be safely introduced at any time. By my understanding of the rules, it should have been introduced regardless of whether it was safe to recover the popped one. As the Q&A notes, the popped one would then be considered field debris.
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See the Q&A Gary quoted. Replacements for broken trackballs come in:
- at roughly the same location
- at the next safe opportunity
and debris (the old one) might not be removed until after the match. So it's not when it's safe to recover the old one, it's when it's safe to put a new one in. A robot right there makes it kind of unsafe to put a new one in, wouldn't you say? (IIRC, there was a robot in the immediate vicinity for quite a while.)
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