[BurtGummer]

To answer the questions...

1. Yep, it is skateboard grip tape.
2. We do have bumpers, we just didn't have them attached in the pic.
3. It does dump to the side.
4. The CIM on the lift belt is older, I know that. Our sponsor rep had the controller built at beachbots initially, and two older CIMs where on there. Our sponsor lost one of our other new CIMs, so we had to use one of the older ones which came on the controller. It says Fisher Price on it, and it use to have a belt tensioner on it.

If it's illegal, then we can use the CIM that our sponsor found yesterday (the lost one). It was one ordered for this year, so it should be fine if the current one isn't.

We don't have any problems with the balls falling out the sides after we added guards at the bottom which guide the ball to the center of the belts. However, we still have issues of the ball idling at the top, but either a new ball will push it up, or we can turn the lift speed down a little and the zip ties push it into the hopper.

I don't know why we had such limited time, all I know is that we got the kitbot 2 weeks ago Tuesday.