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[androb4]

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[I LOVE ROBOTS!]

Looks like a viable ball hording strategy

[Richard Wallace]

At Waterford this past weekend, one match was replayed due to a jammed net (two balls) that was not cleared quickly enough by the field volunteer. The Head Ref made the call to replay after a shot entered the jammed net and bounced back out. I think the official language for this is "Arena fault" (see [T25]).

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by androb4

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Just poke it with a stick.
or feed it copious amounts of Ex-lax.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Just poke it with a stick.
or feed it copious amounts of Ex-lax.

2006's pokey pokey sticks have returned...

[dellagd]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Just poke it with a stick.
or feed it copious amounts of Ex-lax.

That was at hatboro horsham. The volunteer got yelled at for trying to poke it with a stick

[Lowfategg]

This happened at the Hatboro-Horsham district event in the finals. There were a total of 5 balls stuck in the net after auto mode, the match was stopped and replayed due an "Arena fault". The alliance was 357, 2016, and 708.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by dellagd

That was at hatboro horsham. The volunteer got yelled at for trying to poke it with a stick

that's what they're supposed to do.
Bahrat did that at Alamo when 118 got balls stuck. He was trying to free up the balls and 118 came back and put more in.

[bduddy]

Originally Posted by dellagd

That was at hatboro horsham. The volunteer got yelled at for trying to poke it with a stick

I read that the volunteers were supposed to be poking the balls if they got stuck... is that not true?

[camtunkpa]

We had a ball hang up happen to us during the elims as well. We lost the match by 3 points.

[SamMullen]

Originally Posted by bduddy

I read that the volunteers were supposed to be poking the balls if they got stuck... is that not true?

At Chesapeake, as a field reset, I was specifically given a big stick and told to poke any ball jams in the tubes.

[Deetman]

Originally Posted by dellagd

That was at hatboro horsham. The volunteer got yelled at for trying to poke it with a stick

I don't think the issue was that this isn't what the volunteers are supposed to do, more that (a) there was no way the volunteer was going to unclog it, (b) all 5 were technically "scored" in hybrid period, and (c) even if he did manage to clear the basket there was a good chance that one or more of the balls would have ended up on the field instead of in the basket.

Ultimately there was no way the basket was going to be cleared in a timely manner hence the arena fault and match replay.

[Dancin103]

Two balls got stuck in the net in Florida this weekend, and by the time the pokey stick cleared the balls, it wasn't autonomus any more, so they just refigured the score.

[Tetraman]

I was the holder of the Ball Poker Stick (official FIRST language regarding that piece of PVC) at FLR. The rules as I was told, is that the balls MUST be unstuck when that occurs. If a basketball were to enter a hoop stuffed with basketballs and that ball were to bounce out, it would be considered a failure of the field and the game would get the foghorn and be replayed. While it never happened at FLR, I had to stand there in the Red Alliance player station all day to make sure if it happened, I'd be the one to unstuck those basketballs.

[ChrisH]

According to Kate Pilotte the PVC stick is called the "plunger". Appropriate I think.

ChrisH