The Wedge Bot!!!

[Alex Salomonsky]

the wedge is great and nothing is wrong with it. Any bot can flip another one. The wedge can help u win pushing matches and great for the KOTH battle. I remember at VCU, our wedge helped us push sparky off the top a little, and we defeated Sparky ( their only qualifying round lose ) sure we finished 30th, its cuz of bad alliance partners. Ours died in last match, if they were at the top, we would have won the match and finished 12th overall maybe higher. No judges had a problem with our bot, even with the lifter ( which was not used to filp anyone ).

[goldalex]

we got disqualified due to the wedge and we were told that we cannot under any circumstances at all push with out wedge. If the wedge was to be used it would have to be used while we were sitting in a still position. We were disqualifef once due to this almost twice

[Parks]

I guess it depends on the judges you have.
In the first round, I accidentally flipped a robot - the controls were faulting and the robot lurched when I was pushing a top-heavy robot. I got massive applause from the audience but I thought I would be disqualified. Instead, the ref just asked me if it was intentional, and he told me that if it happened again he would have to disqualify me.

I just hope that the refs at the nationals will be as reasonable.

[Solon Jhee]

Same thing for team 302. We have two wedges, one in front and one in back and no one else could push us. That helped us win the GLR and we played in every elimination match. We were seeded sixth and picked 67 and 226 (which we couldnt have done it without u guys). But we decided the double wedge from the start of the season, it hasnt failed us since

[D. Gregory]

610's bot rocked. Ironically, the one match we were allied with them was our worst match and our undoing haha (9 pts). Congrats on the chairmans award.

[Cory]

Originally posted by Gadget470
sorry to be the bearer of statistcal truth..

You folks seeded 31st.. not too great of a showing. But you did get picked for alliances which is always good. (We didn't ). I looked through the scores you guys had and they all were rather low. I havn't seen matches so I don't know how well you were really pushing people around, but it seems like it didn't help you much.

Umm yeah... perhaps you didnt see the Cheesy Poofs showing at SVR. their scores were rather low, and they lost most of their matches, and they were seeded 40th out of 46th and they won, so that shows you statistics dont mean squat.

Cory

[sanddrag]

We didn't have a wedge but we were very low, strong, and fast so we flipped a bunch of robots anyway. Anyone who was at Phoenix can let you know all about it. We seeded 3rd and made it to the second round of semifinals.

[Parks]

Thank you to those of you who have congratulated us on the chairman's award.

I am eagerly looking forward to the nationals, especially to see how the wedge performs there. I just hope that the judges don't yell at me for pushing with the wedge as I have heard has been the case in some places.

and with regards to:

statistics dont mean squat.

I am in complete agreement with you Cory. There are too many variables, especially the alliance members, that determine the outcome of a match. It is difficult to base a robot's effectiveness on scores.