Next Year's game idea....

[tkwetzel]

Floppies were used as scoring devices in 1999 and are round cloth things that are somewhat hard to describe. They are about 2.5-3' in diameter and the middle is sewn together to make it flat, however, around the sewn together part the rest of it is stuffed with something. It isn't stuffed with much making them very floppy (hence the name). If anyone has corrections or additions to that description, please add. I have handled one of them in the recent past (my brother has one somewhere), but I was not around when they were used in the FIRST game.
edit:

Basically like round pillows.

I woudl agree that they are sort of like pillows, but they are not as stuffed as most pillows are. They were very floppy and as he said don't hold their shape.

As for future years...I would like to see pyramid or cylindrical shaped pieces. a device to pick up something pyramidal in shape would need to be a little more complex than most of the arms that pick up the balls.