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Originally Posted by oddjob
For scoring objects, use standard 1L soda bottles, filled with small styrofoam balls and with top cap sealed. Cheap, sturdy, not too heavy, interesting shape to handle, everyone can get them.
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FIRST has had a tendency lately to use scoring objects that are NOT easy to get, so that FIRST can sell them to you at very high markup. I don't think FIRST would go for something like this (imho of course)
EDIT: It appears that I was pretty uninformed about pricing of the orbit balls. I guess my point was more to the availablility of items, which this year was quite a problem, as well as in 06 it posed somewhat of a problem, and in 08, while, they were pretty expensive per item, I guess you only really needed one or two of them.