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Welcome to 149th B Contest: Loops!

Welcome to my first contest! We will be departing from normal rules on this one, so read carefully!

Special rules:
*NEW: PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINES ARE DARK, AND WILL NOT QUALIFY FOR A LIGHT MEDAL!
* The goal of this contest is to loop around the center square as many times as possible, then exit through the portal.
* The ultralight submission with the most loops wins.
* If there is a tie for loops, the cheapest solution wins.
* Both clockwise and anticlockwise solutions are acceptable.

Example of 0 loops: http://tinypic.com/r/5pnekz/3
Example of 1 loop: http://tinypic.com/r/5zjl7b/3
Example of 2 loops: http://tinypic.com/r/24wxes6/3

Naming convention is:
[LoopsCompleted]-[DollarsRemaining]-[YourForumName]-[SolutionName]
Example:
3-1500-Anon54-Rollercoaster

Contest Ends: 3 August 2009 at 21:00 GMT
GMT Time link: http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/

Submissions by PM

Good luck and I hope you enjoy!

EDIT: Remember! The armadillo must leave through the portal to count as a valid solution! (No infinite loops)
If your solution takes more than 2 minutes to complete, please tell me how long it takes in your submission.

Nice idea, though I understand that it's possible to loop around infinte amount of times resusing the same construction. Have you thought about that? I just thought it's a game of patience - whoever does the most loops.

How is that possible in ultralight without a rocket?

I might be wrong

I have a level I could replace it with, but it was designed for the A contest. Let us see what happens here first. If people can make ultralight infinite loops, we may cap the score at 50 or so.

Overbudget solutions allowed?

No, sorry!

Endless Ultralight rotations is very possible, look at this

Oh no... Rob, if you use that I think you just broke my contest... What should I do?

Sorry, but I am sure more people would have found a way to do ultralight endless motion.

Actually you can make this fast enough to break apart like a dark flipper. I guess I created a bit of a problem

Oh my. Looks like the light definition is going to have to be modified again, doesn't it?

I guess so. Just a few weeks ago we tought that banning overlapping would get rid of the force...

Even though the modified mi2 launcher proved us wrong, you went and broke things again. Looks like ANY kind of node squishing will create dark force.

4 loops+
EDIT: 150 loops +++ Also, there is an infinite solution, but ... Thus, it is necessary to create the timer with time large supply.
EDIT2: Almost 6 minutes, but are possible and more

Rob's engines dark or light?