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Re: Crushing Balls?

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Originally Posted by iCurtis View Post
If you're destroying game pieces left and right, you're doin' it wrong. There's probably a much more effective way to do the task at hand that doesn't break game pieces. Orbit Balls are pretty hardy.
I respectfully disagree. These balls are completely shoddy. They break within minutes of normal usage (ie: human players throwing them into goals). Half of them broke before they even left Walmart's shelves.

They are anything but hardy, and I would expect every robot to break at least one every match just by running into them.

If your manipulator is destroying them, that's another story, but it seems like it can be all but guaranteed there are going to be a lot of broken balls on the field at any given time.
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