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Re: Annoyed with the Lunacy balls!

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I've been around and seen that. However, the prospect of making hundreds of balls for an event is NOT going to be the first choice. And I'm pretty sure it won't even make the top 10.
I offered to my coaches to get the material and make one, but they said no.. but the orbit balls are soo weak! I will be truely shocked if one of them makes it fully intact to the end of the week!

And I don't think it will be efficient to make however many balls for competitions. The sheer amount of manpower and hours.... and I don't think the balls sold after march will help with our Traverse City Competition in Feb..........
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Re: Annoyed with the Lunacy balls!

We were able to buy 17 balls. We hid 6 of them away immediately, and left the other 11 out for shooting practice, prototyping, and testing. Of the 11 we left out, every single one has at least 2 (usually more) cracks in it that we've had to repair. Fortunately we have some new ones hidden away that we pulled out last night!
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