Re: Write It Do It B/C
Posted: May 3rd, 2010, 2:32 pm
That picture is definitely not of Googleplex. Even with my limited memory of WIDI at Nats two years ago, that doesn't resemble it at all. [EDIT: Now that I think about it, there might have been flat shape pieces, too. There's some chance that's the same thing, just put together in a completely different way.] There was a single kind of rod, and a few kinds of connectors. They weren't too hard to write; the difficulty was supposed to come from the size of the structure and the fact that nobody was familiar with the material.
The longtime WIDI supervisor, who was from Ohio, consistently used Googleplex for B Division. They were discontinued years ago; they were used for WIDI precisely because nobody could have very much experience with them.
They were certainly used for the past three years, and I believe even before that- in fact, I think this event supervisor used them every year that she ran WIDI- and so it would be a reasonable assumption that they would be used again... except that last year was her final year as supervisor. It's going to be run by someone different this year, and it's likely that they will use different materials. [Might I also just point out that a good WIDI pair shouldn't be tripped up by materials they haven't seen?]
C Division, on the other hand, has evidently been K'nex several times. I have no idea if it was run by the same person- in which case it might also be likely to change this year- or if it's been run by someone else the whole time. Also, not having been in C Division until now, I don't know if this has been a long-standing tradition or just a recurring theme.
This may also change under a different supervisor, but at Nats for B Division two years ago, the structures were set up on the tables after everyone was seated, with one for about every two or three people. As usual, you could get up and walk around it, although we were at large tables so you basically had to lean over to see the other side.
The longtime WIDI supervisor, who was from Ohio, consistently used Googleplex for B Division. They were discontinued years ago; they were used for WIDI precisely because nobody could have very much experience with them.
They were certainly used for the past three years, and I believe even before that- in fact, I think this event supervisor used them every year that she ran WIDI- and so it would be a reasonable assumption that they would be used again... except that last year was her final year as supervisor. It's going to be run by someone different this year, and it's likely that they will use different materials. [Might I also just point out that a good WIDI pair shouldn't be tripped up by materials they haven't seen?]
C Division, on the other hand, has evidently been K'nex several times. I have no idea if it was run by the same person- in which case it might also be likely to change this year- or if it's been run by someone else the whole time. Also, not having been in C Division until now, I don't know if this has been a long-standing tradition or just a recurring theme.
This may also change under a different supervisor, but at Nats for B Division two years ago, the structures were set up on the tables after everyone was seated, with one for about every two or three people. As usual, you could get up and walk around it, although we were at large tables so you basically had to lean over to see the other side.
I started writing from a less-convenient direction, so my partner had some issues getting the structure to stay standing in the process of building it. We figured out at least one, probably two connections that we definitely got wrong, but for 33rd, there must have been some others that we didn't notice when we were explaining it to each other.
