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Re: Orbit balls breaking

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Originally Posted by Laaba 80 View Post
Also, it wouldnt hurt to practice with some broken balls, thats why the teammate bought them. There is a very high chance that you will be playing with broken balls at a competition, and you want to be able to accommodate for that.
Yup, I think THAT is the historically accurate answer for all of this - when we bought 4 of them at Wal-Mart 3 of 4 were broken, and I broke the 4th one an hour later while giving it a slight squeeze to see how it deforms. Unless the ball is just absolutely mangled beyond recognition I don't see the competition staff being able to replace them when only one or two bands are broken (imagine a robot squashing a group of 'em as it slides into the wall). You're just going to have to figure out how to deal with these things "mostly broken."

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