Soccer Ball Sold Out

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Well hopefully we will see two things out of this:

1) a lesson learned for distribution

2) Co-opertition. As a mentor I hope that teams that were able to order balls this weekend and ordered enough for the entire field setup will offer some of those to other teams so hopefully teams have the opportunity to appropriately test their machines. Yes it is a competition, but its also about remembering what the intent is: to learn.

I am checking to see if our team got an order in on Saturday, to see if we will be able to help out some other teams, and I hope other teams do as well.

Oh and as for the numbers count on how many balls FIRST has, I would guess that yes they have 1000 that they ordered for the competition, but you need to remember, there are not 50 field setups that exist, there might be say 10 or 20 at most, week after week for the competitions FIRST reuses everything. Each site does not get their own pristine field. everything travels in groups and when everything gets packed on the truck to goto the next regional, they make sure they have all the pieces and parts they need or will get those items to the next event in a separate shipment from the FIRST office.