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MadCow2357 wrote:

TheChiScientist wrote:I will only divulge the information that all top 3 boomilever scores at IL state were north of 1500.

Division C I assume?

Yes. I have no knowledge of the Div. B scores but I think they are north of 1800 for top 3.

The scores drop quite quickly as you move down the table, though. Lots of teams "got" towers, and built devices that scored highly. Rather fewer teams have high-scoring boomilevers.

knightmoves wrote:The scores drop quite quickly as you move down the table, though. Lots of teams "got" towers, and built devices that scored highly. Rather fewer teams have high-scoring boomilevers.

The nature of boomilever makes this event really hard to master and improve so I think it's more of the fact that many teams can't efficiently research what works...

Our middle school scored something like ~1500 and won. I don't know what our high school team got (they also won). Pembroke got a score of ~1100 and 3rd.

At PA States Div C, the top scores were:
1. 1794
2. 1772
3. 1584

21Cabbage wrote:At PA States Div C, the top scores were:
1. 1794
2. 1772
3. 1584

Those seem strangely low, considering we've had people upwards of 2000 for a while now.

PA div B:
1. 2042
2. 1973.68
3.1563.86

Ohio Div C: 1st Place was 2,083
Ohio Div B: 3rd Place: was 1,650 (Not sure what 1st and 2nd was)
At Ohio State they hand load, which may be why these scores are not as high as expected.

Unome wrote:

21Cabbage wrote:At PA States Div C, the top scores were:
1. 1794
2. 1772
3. 1584

Those seem strangely low, considering we've had people upwards of 2000 for a while now.

Agreed. I think there is a handful of teams that have scored over 2000 but there are also factors at work when approaching full load that cannot be accounted for at competition. We recently just filmed the actual hook under almost full load when the boomi broke (around 14.5kg) and observed that the hook (and plywood wall) were causing the hook to deflect about 5mm compared to where it started when not under load. You will not have this much deflection IF the board the hook is attached to is extremely thick/dense but I think this requirement is underestimated at many competitions. I think this factor could cause some of the lighter boomis to break prematurely at some competitions. I cannot speak for the PA competition specifically, but I can have a hard time comparing boomi scores across the nation unless they were all broken on the same wall/device.

waffletree wrote:PA div B:
1. 2042
2. 1973.68
3.1563.86

who won top 3 again i forgot and am low key lazy to look it up