AR2 A 263 BridgeBuilder Results

[rob]

Time for the results

4th place KuzyaHG scoring 1420
3th place bythelee scoring1481
2nd place markman scoring 1552

1st place TimAndrew scoring 1562

Thanks for playing and hope to see you in the next

[mark_man]

well done very happy you won . still on my hols so cannot see your entry till sunday night. This also means I cannot see your new comp till then also but looking forward to it.
p. s. I suspect I got beat by my catcher?

[Andrew]

Well, it had to happen eventually didn't it?
Yes, it was your catcher mark_man. Apart from that our solutions are more or less identical.
I really like bythelee's crazy method of getting across!
I'll put up a new level soon.

[bythelee]

Aha! The great secret was that there was no great secret. Totally classic bridges won the day - well done guys.

I hit the unfortunate problem that adding structure tended to make the bridge break under it's own weight. So I never went light and flimsy enough to find the answer.


PS Gallopin' Gertie was a real bridge that collapsed in 1940 (Tacoma Narrows, USA). The aerodynamic bridge deck began resonating in a particular windspeed, with devastating results. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFzu6CNtqec http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zczJXSxnw
And it seems we've forgotten the lessons of the past:
Russia, 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEQrt_w7gN4