So I purchased some bomb acrylics and I really like them, but when I got them I thought I should check for size against the actual cardboard tokens. To my surprise the acrylics were smaller by a fraction of a millimeter. I was really upset until I got all my other cardboard versions out and measured like bombs. Again I was surprised to find I had a couple that were a fraction of a millimeter larger than the others. And these cardboard tokens were all unused, so there has been no damage or compression.
I find it hilarious that we’re all using cardboard and TO’s and officials are worried that acrylics are not the same when the cardboard is way worse than any acrylic. And yes I know that some vendors’ templates are off, but that doesn’t mean cardboard templates, etc, are much better, even when coming from the same source. Cardboard is just glued wood fibres and wood can swell or contract. Bend a piece of cardboard and it will never have the same measurements again. The edges of cardboard can also be eroded. If your templates or bombs are old, what do you check them against? You don’t, because they’re considered legal.
The only thing that can fix any of this is for both players to use the same templates no matter if they’re cardboard or acrylic. One of the best rules that FF has come up with in my opinion.