[FRC BLOG] This isn't a Robot, Housing, and Throwing Things

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Originally Posted by FrankJ

Volunteers don't have the authority to modify the rules. Even if the rule didn't apply to the floor, to continue to throw it from the stands would still be against the rules implied in the Blog. Keeping in mind we have not actually seen the 2017 rules.

I'd expect that if a beach ball originated from the stands and gets to the floor, it'd be confiscated. But if the MC, a judge or VIP tossed a beach ball into the stands from the floor during a timeout or field reset, there wouldn't be too much fuss.

If the rule means that beach balls are no more, that's a small price to pay to get rid of the paper airplanes. And to everyone that threw a paper airplane in the past: that is why we can't have nice things.