What happens to them?

[M. Lillis]

All I know is that at the end of Championship 2011 there were a bunch of workers stacking inflated tubes. My team and several others went over and grabbed sets of them and deflated them for the flight home. So I presume that they allow people to take the game pieces that aren't valuable (who has a use for a triangle innertube?) because it saves them a trip to the dumpster. Otherwise, I do not know what they did with 2012 balls.