[EricH]

Originally Posted by BJC

Were wedges still legal in 2005?

If so, I vote for box on wheels and flip down wedges..

Legal, yes. Used to tip other robots over, red card. Which is, I think, why wedges have been illegal since 2006. http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/21301 shows a tie match in Archimedes QFs; this was the only 0-0 eliminations match (and might still be). This particular one was caused by red cards for tipping, as I understand it. The offenders both either carried wedges or had them built into their robot.

I do remember at least one Box-on-Wheels with a flip-down wedge on one end. No eliminations for it, and I seem to recall a number of penalties.

330 used theirs to keep other robots from interfering with scoring. Usually it worked. Then there was the one robot that had to be dealt with in another way... by lifting the tetra that we were picking up (one of ours, of course) and they had their wheel in. They started coming along with it, we put it down, and they didn't bother us like that again.