How Did You Pop the Gamepiece?

[mmcewen]

So quite a few teams have mentioned how they have accidentally destroyed their gamepiece and I was wondering what the most common way is.

Our team's was a bit unconventional...the building we work in is unheated and we left the ball too close to one of the space heaters we had brought in, melting a hole in the side

[azcalg]

Our team hasn't popped it but I think most have popped from wheels that are moving too fast. Team 2383's ball looked like this after this and I think some broke from trying to herd the ball too fast

[zsm150]

...the day after kickoff, on a screw sticking out of the wooden 10 pt goal we had made.

[MrForbes]

We should have our robot ready to play with the ball in the next day or two....we'll keep you all posted when we pop the ball.

[Aroki]

We left our ball in the storage room and when we came back the next day the bladder had ruptured but the fabric was perfectly fine.

Luckily we were able to buy an exercise ball that was the same diameter/weight as the badder for <$10 at a closeout store.

[CalTran]

Saturday after Kickoff, testing the catapult. Made a change to the back plate, fired, ball shot straight up, bounced right off the i-beam above us, and came flying down onto the drill that was sitting on the table. Postmortem we decided the ball committed suicide because of the lack of end game (/sarcasm).

[Boe]

How haven't we broke the ball
we've hit the lights in our shop, we had a ball pop when it hit the goal, we had it too close to someone using a heat gun :/

[jimwick]

We were using rubber bottle stoppers for the intake rollers. They had a sharp edge and popped the ball when rotated too fast.
We have since switched to orange BB wheels.

[Richard.Varone]

Our PVC goal was backwards and it hit a screw sticking out

[BEN35678]

We shoot our ball in our prototype shooter and it bounced off the truss and came back and hit the corner of the protyping frame.

[railerobotics]

At this point I am amazed we haven't popped the ball. *Knocks on wood while typing*

[Taylor]

The corners of our shooter wheels are a bit sharp. They shredded through the ball while testing.
We'll spend some time filing down the wheels' edges (what a strange sentence to type).