Contest #7 results
Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:06 pm
There were 32 entries from 15 different players this week (or 16, but Tim McSweeney's entry never made it through to me.) There was one popular theme with the high scoring entries, but still some variety there, and a good number of interesting entries otherwise. We also have both a light side and a dark side winner this week.
Go here to download all of this week's entries. As always, they are worth your time.
First up is dudiobugtron's unique force-based winch:
Several people managed to come up with flat catchers where the Armadillo rolls slowly enough to get captured anyway. This is Kingofthespill's variant, the cheapest of the bunch, and the second place overall light side entry at $2744:
RyanM and Bob were the only two to build large rotating cranes. Here's Ryan's (because Bob sent his relatively late and I've been putting these together in a rush):
RyanM also built the most expensive entry, at over $21000 below 0! It is also the only entry that opted to go neither left nor right. Hint: that's not six tensioned rubber segments, it's several dozen.
?rjan Flatseth sent in an artistic entry featuring his own initials
Skring sent in perhaps the most elaborate entry
Then we have the light side winner, who will come as no surprise to long time players. BFC wins with this $2782 variant of the popular metal bar lifter first seen a few weeks ago in one of PeterT's solutions to BFC's levels.
Way to go, BFC!
Lastly, The high end of the dark side entries were similar and highly competitive, Bob managed $2850, PeterT hit $2848, and ?rjan sent in a not-so-similar $2840 entry, but the winner was Jain at $2852!
Please note that we can't give out medals while PeterT is off on vacation. But as soon as he's back he will hook up BFC and Jain with their medals. Congratulations!
Thanks to everyone for competing this week. BFC will be up next week with whatever diabolical contraption he's been waiting to spring on us. I view this with a mixture of anticipation and dread.
Go here to download all of this week's entries. As always, they are worth your time.
First up is dudiobugtron's unique force-based winch:
Several people managed to come up with flat catchers where the Armadillo rolls slowly enough to get captured anyway. This is Kingofthespill's variant, the cheapest of the bunch, and the second place overall light side entry at $2744:
RyanM and Bob were the only two to build large rotating cranes. Here's Ryan's (because Bob sent his relatively late and I've been putting these together in a rush):
RyanM also built the most expensive entry, at over $21000 below 0! It is also the only entry that opted to go neither left nor right. Hint: that's not six tensioned rubber segments, it's several dozen.
?rjan Flatseth sent in an artistic entry featuring his own initials
Skring sent in perhaps the most elaborate entry
Then we have the light side winner, who will come as no surprise to long time players. BFC wins with this $2782 variant of the popular metal bar lifter first seen a few weeks ago in one of PeterT's solutions to BFC's levels.
Way to go, BFC!
Lastly, The high end of the dark side entries were similar and highly competitive, Bob managed $2850, PeterT hit $2848, and ?rjan sent in a not-so-similar $2840 entry, but the winner was Jain at $2852!
Please note that we can't give out medals while PeterT is off on vacation. But as soon as he's back he will hook up BFC and Jain with their medals. Congratulations!
Thanks to everyone for competing this week. BFC will be up next week with whatever diabolical contraption he's been waiting to spring on us. I view this with a mixture of anticipation and dread.