[EricH]

Originally Posted by McGurky

Just checked over all of our tubes, and none of ours have FIRST logos they are just generic tubes. Did some teams get the first ones and some not or where the FIRST specific ones only used at the competitions? Just curious as a member of a pre-2007 team that joined post-2007.

Thanks,
mcgurky

The 2007 game had three classes of tubes.
Black: the spoilers negated any scoring on a row (other than keepers); they were also the only tube that could be removed. Any robot carrying one was an instant target.
Red/Blue, no ring: Ringers were scored 2^x, where x was the number in a row.
Red/Blue, white ring saying FIRST on both sides: Keepers were placed in automode only, and could not be spoiled. A number of them were slashed mid match by a referee--they hadn't been placed, but a team's opening a claw would have scored them and so they were removed.

Keepers are the only ones that say FIRST. The others are pretty generic (and say they aren't lifesaving devices, which triggered a number of wisecracks on CD).