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It's a bit disappointing that they announce a ball with new panel shapes and print and then only show a cropped image, from one side only, as hero image.
by _Microft 5y ago
It's a bit disappointing that they announce a ball with new panel shapes and print and then only show a cropped image, from one side only, as hero image.
- usrusr 5y agoI don't think they did, but imagine they designed an asymmetric ball, only incompletely revealing it just long enough that all bootleg manufacturers set up their lines to build an extrapolation of the revealed side and then derail them with a surprise "far side of the ball looks completely different, gotcha!". Come to think of it, for the print part of it (as opposed to the panel setup) I suspect that an unrevealed surprise design isn't even that unlikely, perhaps with two tiers of "official design" where the premium version is only revealed much closer to the event (with only the lower tier design made available even for training/qualification of official teams). Thinking a bit more of this, I suspect that this isn't me hypothesizing at all, but just murky memories of past cup seasons resurfacing?
- fredoralive 5y agoThey usually do a special variant of the ball for the final. I don't think the regular ball changes, although the balls used in actual matches at big tournaments have the specific match they're intended for printed on.