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Re: Soccer Ball Sold Out

I absolutely agree that FIRST has made a mistake of not providing each team a ball in the KOP and choosing such a limited availability ball.


Having said that I will also say that if you spend too much time building your design to an exact type and size of ball you will be doing your team a great disservice. FIRST teams are hard on game elements and reset crews don't have the time to spend checking inflation levels of balls. You need to design your mechanism to work with balls that are in many conditions because that's what you will be dealing with on the field, especially in later regionals.
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