Elevated Bridge B/C

[eyeball138]

Sorry, but we wont tell you our efficiency until after states. I believe that either Sewickley or Shady Side won Tower at nationals two years ago, so I'm counting on one of them to win.

[nejanimb]

Probably a good call. I have a feeling one of those two (more than likely Sewickley) will win as well. I'll definitely be interested to see how B division scores come out though. I'm hoping Welsh Valley does well (since that's where I used to go and do bridges for), but we'll see what happens! Good luck Strath Haven. I'm sort of hoping that B division scores end up higher than C division scores, since I do think B is easier, but the winning C score for the SE regional were 500 points higher than the B division score. We'll see how States shakes out.

[eyeball138]

Yeah thanks. Good luck to you too.

[andrewwski]

Is the structural stress analyzer something you buy as a whole, or did you make it yourself? I also think that the tower idea is ingenious. It's really annoying to have to guess where it broke first. That's why I try to video tape it, but it's still hard to see.

It's something the technology department at my school has - we use it periodically for engineering classes. I don't know how much it costs but I wouldn't imagine it's cheap. You'd get the same results from BalsaMan's method though - without the cost.

I used to video tape mine as well, but without a high-speed camera (also very expensive) you can't really tell.

[croman74]

Yeah I figured that it would be pretty expensive. I'd love to build Balsa Man's safety tower, but I'm still not quite picturing it.

[2win]

Is there a way to upload a video onto the wiki? If so, I would like to do so for our upcoming states comp.

[croman74]

I don't know about the wiki, but you can for the image gallery. Just PM Dark Sabre about it.

[Allirog24]

How has everyone done at States? What have been the top efficiencies?

[VirtualD]

I'll post mine, since I won't be going to Nats. About 998-1000 efficiency, silver medal. And the sad thing is, mine broke.

[croman74]

I found scores for my regionals on our regional website. Here's the link: http://www.gvsu.edu/mso-r12/index.cfm?i ... 0406F6678F
The top team had 1578, and only one bridge held all the weight and it got 2nd place. I got 9th place with an efficiency of 626. Remember this is regionals, not states. States are in 13 days!

Edit: Here are the Div. C scores: http://www.gvsu.edu/mso-r12/index.cfm?i ... E2E72E6717 Top score was 1571.