This was one of the toughest challenges I have ever done.
Impossible start posiitons, impossible portal positions, no bars, and expensive rope? Getting any solution at all was a massive success, in my book.
16 minutes late? That's really, really harsh. Technically correct, yes, but if it had disqualified the winning entry, I'd feel impossibly awkward and bad about that.
Besides, we need every entry we can get..... Maybe just knock a point off the score for every late minute?
Grats to Mark_man for successfully building the "through the bottom" plates. I tried, and could not get close. Perhaps that helped me in the end, since rope was far and away the most painfully expensive component there. Feeding everything through the hole, allowed me to minimise that expense.
I apologise for grabbing the win so late in the day.
I've had a lot of RL stuff to deal with lately, and didn't properly get into this challenge until the last day.
Next challenge should be up soon.