[BB] August 18, 2010: Vacation, what vacation?

[Peter Matteson]

Originally Posted by Alex Cormier

If the GDC is having this issue. Will the 1800 teams have the same issue? Will this be a repeat of 2009?

Don't forget these other game piece supply issue years...
2010 The real ball was drastically different than commonly available balls, and was in extremely short supply. It caused my team and others to completely change dribbler designs once we had access to the real balls.
2009 Stated already, but we had to call friends and relatives in FRC team sparse areas to get them because there are soo many FRC teams in the Northeast.
2008 Trackball replacements were difficult to get, but at least they gave us one in the kit.
2007 Could only be bought from FIRST but no real issues.
2006 Not in any stores like they were supposed to be, but the manufacturer was able to make and supply them for us.
2005 The home made tetras weighed 2x the competition tetras, but we could make them ourselves.
2004 The company supplying the small balls did not make competition balls available to all teams. The ball they shipped had very different characteristics than the real ball.
2003 We could by the Sterilite bins at Target and Walmart.

I would say difficulty getting the game object has been the rule since I've been involved in FRC. As long as they give us at least 1 real game object we can cope with it. I just don't want to have to jump through hurdles and hoops to be able to get enough game objects to make a working robot design.