Bad News! The original solutions from the original challenge fail to finish in a big way.
Good News! We can't just copy an old solution and rebadge it. Not until the old challenges caught up to the present 2.1.3 software version, anyway.
The runaway winner was Mark_man, scoring 2882. Congratulations! That was good enough for third place in the original challenge, but it wasn't a fair playing field.
Second was me, scoring 2850. That was my original score, before I was tainted by glimpsing Arunion's solution.
Third was Arunion, scoring 2846. I said it would be close.
Dec10 also solved it for 2702.
I was mostly working on a swing/bouncer (bar plus cloth) for the left hand side, but it failed miserably. The bar just broke under dillo impact. The plate/bar flipper discovered by Arunion and Mark_man seem to be the most economical option.
But Mark_man's unique bouncy swing on the right is a masterpiece. Nicely done.
Looking at how the original challenge winners fail to bounce anything like far enough, I reckon those old solutions were a lot easier to build. We're thus playing up a steep hill with the present 2.1.3 version, and that makes Mark_man's winning score all the more impressive here.
There were 7 competitors in the original challenge. Including a score of 2834 from a certain decsystem10.......
![Shocked :shock:](./images/smilies/icon_eek.gif)
![Shocked :shock:](./images/smilies/icon_eek.gif)
But hey, since the software isn't solving quite the same way, it's not surprising to be further off the pace than last time.
![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
(I avoided looking at the results until after this challenge closed, to avoid knowing what score to aim for. So it was a complete surprise to see dec10 competing in both.)