The Not So-Secret Secret End-Game

[Incognito]

Originally Posted by AndrewPospeshil

That's another thing that one of my teammates noticed but I didn't put much thought into. I assumed it was just an error or a misprint, but what if it's not? I mean, that's a pretty big error to make, placing the wrong color ball in both slots. At this point I feel like I'm grasping at thin air, but this is just another reason for me to be super suspicious.

I need sleep.

I almost just agreed, but I realized three things that will make sense of this: 1) alliances are scoring at the opposite end of the field that the drivers are driving from; 2) If the ball that was just scored goes to the pedestal behind the alliance wall that it was just scored through, putting the ball back in play here would be putting the ball back in play in the same zone to be able to score instantly again; and 3) There WILL be more than one ball outside of the field, so nobody will need to run back and forth. There would always be a ball ready to be picked up from the pedestal (I believe), and field staff would take the scored ball and return it to the opposite side in an orderly fashion. Taking these things into account, it makes sense that the balls are at the ends that they are: they are correct.

While I'm posting, I have a question to be raised that I haven't seen answered in the manual or anywhere else: When does the pedestal light up? Any references to that are obscure and nothing specific about when it actually lights up is said.