{
  "id": "friday-fever",
  "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/paddles/friday-fever",
  "brand": "Friday",
  "model": "Fever",
  "year": 2025,
  "launch": {
    "date": "2025-05-15",
    "precision": "month",
    "label": "May"
  },
  "lifecycle": "current",
  "listPriceUsd": 99,
  "listPriceLabel": "$99 · 2 for $199",
  "build": "hybrid",
  "buildLabel": "Honeycomb + foam (Gen 3)",
  "thickness": "16mm",
  "shapes": "Elongated",
  "pro": null,
  "summary": "Pickleheads gave it 4.5/5 and said it 'punches way above its price', more consistent across the face than Friday's Challenger and short on power. It showed a thermoformed foam-edge paddle could be sold direct at $99 months before the $99 full-foam paddles arrived.",
  "construction": "Gen 3-style build: three-layer carbon fiber face over a 16mm core with foam-injected edge walls.",
  "core": {
    "layers": [
      "16mm core",
      "foam-injected edge walls"
    ],
    "face": "three-layer carbon fiber",
    "edge": "",
    "source": "https://www.pickleheads.com/pickleball-gear/friday-fever-review-at-a-glance"
  },
  "variants": [
    {
      "name": "Fever Gen 3 16mm (elongated)",
      "shape": "elongated",
      "lengthIn": 16.5,
      "widthIn": 7.5,
      "handleIn": 5.5,
      "thicknessMm": 16,
      "weightOz": "7.52-7.88",
      "sw": 115,
      "tw": 5.9,
      "specSource": "https://fridaypickle.com/products/friday-fever-paddle",
      "note": "Brand: 'Paddle Area: 16.5\"x7.5\"', 'Grip: 5.5\"x4.25\"', 'Avg. Weight: 7.7oz ± 0.18 oz' (range derived), brand-published sw 115 / tw 5.9. Fever 102 widebody (fridaypickle.com/products/fever-102) and Fever 102 elongated (/fever-102-elongated) pages publish no dimensions."
    }
  ],
  "status": {
    "usap": "unknown",
    "usapSource": null,
    "upaa": "unknown",
    "upaaSource": null,
    "quiet": false,
    "patent": "named-joola-settled",
    "investigation": null,
    "lifecycle": "current"
  },
  "certNote": "",
  "timeline": [
    {
      "date": "2025-05-15",
      "precision": "month",
      "kind": "launch",
      "text": "Launch: May.",
      "source": "https://www.pickleheads.com/pickleball-gear/friday-fever-review-at-a-glance"
    }
  ],
  "labs": [
    {
      "lab": "Pickleheads",
      "kind": "review",
      "url": "https://www.pickleheads.com/pickleball-gear/friday-fever-review-at-a-glance"
    },
    {
      "lab": "Matt's Pickleball",
      "kind": "review",
      "url": "https://www.mattspickleball.com/paddle/fever-16mm"
    },
    {
      "lab": "Matt's Pickleball",
      "kind": "database-entry",
      "url": "https://www.mattspickleball.com/paddle-database/fever-16mm-standard"
    }
  ],
  "colorways": [],
  "madeIn": null,
  "warranty": "6-Month Warranty",
  "notes": null,
  "productUrl": "https://fridaypickle.com/products/friday-fever-paddle",
  "sources": [
    "https://www.pickleheads.com/pickleball-gear/friday-fever-review-at-a-glance",
    "https://fridaypickle.com/products/friday-fever-paddle"
  ],
  "confidence": "medium",
  "image": "https://pointcast.xyz/images/og/paddles/friday-fever.png"
}