Soccer Ball Sold Out

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I laughed during the Kickoff when they announced the game piece was going to be a standard size 5 soccer ball remembering the orbit ball fiasco from last year.

I didn't think much about the soccer ball until I talked to someone who plays a lot of soccer and he suggested that I get at least one because soccer balls are a little different, some shinier, slicker, stitched a little thicker, etc.

So I call up DTI Soccer to get a ball. Turns out they already were sold out of the HS300s Pearl White, then the Ice Blue. Now they are substituting HS500s, apparently same texture, different graphic, same price (their gesture to us late callers).

He said they only had 1000 balls in stock at the kickoff and that they won't be getting any more HS300 balls in before the competitions. They also only have distribution through their single storefront/website.

I don't know if the visioning will matter much between the Pearl White or the Ice Blue. I don't know if the ball characteristics will matter much in the dynamics of the mechanisms and it probably won't matter, but....

Couldn't FIRST have chosen a standard ball from a big manufacturer that has multiple retail distribution points throughout the US and would also have a greater chance of distribution for our International teams?

Just wondering...

- T