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Originally Posted by 1075guy
2010: DTI Soccer Balls are unobtainium, not going back into production till the competitions have started
2009: Orbit balls became unobtainium, Blip Toys wasnt going to manufacture more till after competitions started
2008: Trackballs were DIFFICULT to obtain, but were not so bad because there were so few in the game, and were expensive.
2007: The tubes were not easy to get until after the games were done.
2006: The poof ball manufacturer was blindsided, they got really hard to get
2005: Used game pieces teams could make themselves.
2004: The 5 pt balls became hard to get the exact model, luckily, lots of similar 14" rubber balls exist in high school gymnasiums
2003: The sterilite bins used were unobtainium for months after the competitions.
Thats as far back as i've been involved... FIRST game pieces becoming unobtainium by the second week of January happens regularly. FIRST needs to warn the manufacturers adequately.
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Maybe, the manufacturers, even if warned, don't understand the magnitude of the situation because of
-FIRST not making a big deal about it, to keep it a secret and
-the fact no one at the company has ever heard of FIRST or, if some one does, they don't know much about it.
this results, possibly, in the company falsely believing that the increase in sales will be smaller than what it truly is. maybe if FIRST, or the teams, made the game pieces, it would work out better. But then again, in 2005 the issue was that the game pieces were more dangerous than the GDC had anticipated due to their weight.