[EricH]

Originally Posted by PhantomPhyxer

However, we did not have a spare wheel. We took a look at our wheels and fould a broken spoke on a rear wheel. Upon further investigation we noticed the wheel was split across the tread. We did not have enough time to change this wheel until the next match. Thank you 2144 for giving us a wheel. The Janksters broke two wheels at SVR. I will not use these wheels next year.

Have you contacted AndyMark? Inform them of the problem (pictures should help), and hold off on declarations of not using the wheels next year until AM has had a chance to look into why they are failing. You're not the only team with these failures, as you know. AndyMark likes feedback, and likes to fix problems with their products promptly.

And two competitions on a single set--back when I was a student on a team, we could go through two sets of AM and McMaster wheels in an event, minimum one set. We'd usually take some time on practice day to change out from the previous event, wear through the wheels by the end of elims if not before, go to the next event, repeat. (We'd also buy quite a few spares.) You guys put a ton of drive time on those wheels, so I'm not terribly surprised that they would have broken eventually--fatigue plus impact will take down quite a few things, let alone a wheel.