[Brandon Holley]

Our team (11) used wedges for the first time this year, and we are sure glad that we did.

Our wedges were actually a controversial topic around week 5ish. Some of you might remember we have the aluminum "picture frame" wedges. They turned out to work great. The way we designed them, there was a good 3/4" pushing surface before the wedge started. Our wedges were one of our greater parts of the robot this year. I know many teams have had bad experiences with wedges, but they have to understand that the wedges dont come without sacrafice...

After week 1, at EVERY SINGLE drivers meeting, the topic of wedges was brought up. We learned real quick that we had to be careful with our as some people saw them "tipping weapons". The truth is that the few times we had to flex our drive train muscle, the wedges gave us the advantage we needed. A couple of robots were flipped, but none of them because we drove into them and they flipped. Other teams pushed them into us, they hit us at a high rate of speed...etc.

A note to the teams who are disgruntled about wedges...If you really can't stand them being used against you, why dont you try using them yourselves?