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Re: World record for penalties in one game

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Originally Posted by jsasaki View Post
So would I! how strange. It sucks if teams were using the actual ball and had a mechanism that only worked with the DTI balls. Highly unlikely but it is a disadvantage for team who took the initiative to buy the right ones.

You are absolutely correct. I think the reason we used Nike Balls was because one of the teams was donated something like 50 balls.
Our team was well aware that the balls that FIRST Israel were going to use might not be DTI and we tested our ball possession mechanism on several types of balls (We are able to fit the mechanism to any ball, but we need a ball for that).
The odd thing is that we didn't have a Nike ball at reach in the competition day. And we started off with a ball possession mechanism that is not very effective, only later on that day we found a ball like that from one of the teams. (This balls cost something like 100$, so it wasn't easy to just go and get one).

If you think that's weird, The poll Diameter of the towers were wrong. And some teams had to say good bye to their well designed hanging device.