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Originally Posted by Homsar66

It would be very hard to implement, because of the seams in the balls. You would need multiple small suction cups, to ensure at least some of them grab. But then they probably wouldn't be able to hold on if there were any reasonable bumps to the ball.

EDIT: Ah he beat me. And i trident wouldn't really work because the ball would need to be more than three inches under the bumper to grab the ball in that manner

I have to agree with you hear. We thought about the idea of using suction, as we used it back in 2007. However, the seams of the ball make it very difficult to get good suction. So we abandoned the idea after several attempts of trying to make it work.