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Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi
Well, remember this isn't FIRST's fault entirely. They did not know of Wal Mart's intentions.
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Really? When you're going to cause 2000 teams to want to buy 10-20 or more balls each, you'd better be sure that the only supplier of these balls is actually going to keep supplying them and will have a large enough quantity. As cabbagekid2 said, FIRST should have told the manufacturer and supplier what was going to happen. The small chance of potential damage caused by a leak is worth the huge pain that teams are facing now. How is a team supposed to design, build, and test a robot capable of holding 20 balls if they only have 4?
This is a pretty large 'oops' by FIRST.