Is the wear of the ball a major factor as the year plays out?

[Anthony_Galea]

How did your team sleep at night knowing they were slaughtering boulders?

[MikLast]

By taking a few hammers to the bot post-season.

[marcusbernstein]

Not if you use a catapult and steer clear of events with @Mitch_Stokes

[pfreivald]

We got our order of 24 balls in yesterday, and they vary in diameter by as much as a centimeter…

[ErinF17]

I volunteer as Field Reset and am attending a Week 1 event to volunteer. I will update, if I remember the give and takeness. I started volunteering 2018. For Deep Space, we had 3 rings to measure cargo size. One would be the perfect size, one would be max tolerance (inflation wise) and the other would be min tolerance. We didn’t really replace the balls because the worst ones would’ve popped. I’ll see what the tolerance is this year but plan to be adjustable and tolerate small differences.

[cybertornado3136]

During competition, they’ll likely be cycled out if they get too worn out. Last year, hatches that had slightly messed up velcro got replaced and were fixed later. FIRST does a good job keeping only good condition game pieces in play, so I don’t believe that’ll be an issue.

Your specific team, on the other hand, may have to buy new cells after a few weeks if you’re really rough with them.