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Originally Posted by Jazonk
1. Inflation of game pieces. They gave us a specific psi in the manual, so why didn't they stick to that? This gave us nightmares with tuning autonomous, because the flat vs. inflated balls were kicking drastically different distances. Couldn't they have taken 12 balls, pumped them up correctly, and rotated them every 5 matches to make sure they were kept inflated?
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At the Las Vegas regional we constantly checked the PSI of the balls to make sure they were at 9 PSI. It worked out fine and when the balls started getting beat up we swapped them out with a new one.
Few thing we hated was the reusing of the cRio and modules, compressor, and battery (our previous ones all died) was not my favorite thing because it totally ruined our 09 robot. For the battery I suggest 2 of them again maybe not shipped at the same time but 2 would be nice. One can be given at the competitions so we have a fresh one to start with. Another thing I didn't like was having two sets of bumpers (colors) it just made everything complicated. The last thing I didn't appreciate was not having the actual game ball in the KOP only because the supplier ran out and shipping to Maui, Hawaii cost 50 some dollars which was ridiculous. On another note something I really enjoyed about the Hawaii regional compared to the others (Oregon, Arizona, Las Vegas) was the fact that during practice matches teams were not allowed to really substitute another team and go on the field to get practice and the fact that the volunteers were not treated as well as they were in Hawaii.
