pic: Soccor balls stuck on ball return

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Originally Posted by The Cyborg

Well, I found out today what the case was.
Apparently one of the teams had some sticky stuff on their gripper/kicker mechanism that managed to adhere to the ball, which caused the ball to slow down on the way down the ramp and get stuck in the space in between the ramp and the hanging pole on the tower (since the ball didn't have enough velocity to just simply bounce down). GooGone did the trick of getting rid of the sticky stuff on the ball .

This is correct.. I was working on the field and many teams were using duck tape on the front of there robots. We ended up rotating out 8 balls off the field, to help prevent this. Also, every team, that had something close to a sticky substance, was checked out to see if it was going to become an issue.