pic: Kit ball vs. New ball

[MikeDubreuil]

One has to wonder... is this the worst kids gift of all time? "Wild Time" Orbit Ball... I can imagine giving this ball to a child and having them break it in less than 2 minutes. What "wild time" could a person actually have with this ball before breaking it? Misnomer? False advertising?

BTW: I am in the picture, to the left of the Northeastern president, behind the robot. Cool!

[dani190]

im thinking first will need to have a truck load of balls per a competition at least so that they dont run out...

[smurfgirl]

Yikes. That ball has seen the end of its days for sure. I'm guessing they'll take the balls off the field before they look like that (or I will? I'm field repair/reset at CTR ).

[mtaman02]

I can almost gurantee that FIRST will have plenty of these balls. Only b/c I know they had a **** load of this big balls last year and tubes the year before and so on and so forth. Everyone remember the poofs right lol. FIRST makes sure they have plenty on hand and then some. I won't say any numbers b/c idk any right now but they set X Amount for the Regional, X Amount extra for the same regional.

In short they should have plenty. Besides these shouldn't be too roughed up since things are a bit different this year.

[Smoores]

I've learned a lot about the breaking points of these balls, but I've not seen it that bad. I've played baseball, basketball, Moonball(a new sport I invented using the prototype arms of years past) and been able to fit a ball over a person's head. But the same ball I've done that with is still good enough to test. How you did that is remarkable.

[Brandon Holley]

This ball honestly hasn't had any EXTRAORDINARY amount of punishment..sure its been kicked and tossed around, but aside from a brief incident with a prototype shooter on a lathe, its been just tossed around.