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Jocool wrote:

zyzzyva98 wrote:I actually prefer study events... there's no possible malfunctions to take away a medal from an undeserving team. Plus, I do really well at study events.

i like and am good at them too, just i like the tech's and am get at them also.

I'm a decent builder, one of the better ones on my team. Generally I think that building events aren't really as much how great your skills are to your design. If you have a lousy design, no matter how well your skills are, your final result is going to be lousy. I'm pretty sure everyone can glue two pieces of wood or drill a hole, etc. Though for balsa building events it's a little different, you need a a consistent, good building skill to do well. So anyone can be good at a building event if they're willing to put some research in to get the best design possible.

I do both study+building, though I seem to like building better because of some competition things. Although the judges in building events may be terrible, they will most likely change their policy if you show them in the rules what's wrong. However, the supervisors for the testing events already made their tests up and are not going to change for you.

right, only i think that some skill is involved. like if you hav a great battery buggy design, but can't build it, the best medal you will get is your blueprint in a garbage can.

Will SoM be put into the study, lab, or building event forum? It seems like a mixture of all of them (building the instrument, performing it, and then taking a test).

I would say lab, but only because some of the events on there (namely PSL/Physics Lab) are a combination of study and build.

na, probably build. thats the main part of it.

While I think sounds is a good event to bring back into rotation this year, I think it would be a good idea to bring storm the castle back in instead of sumo bots. Even if not, it looks like a good group of builds for next year.

For those who did helicopter as a trial event: did you like it more or less than glider or wright stuff?

I never did Wright Stuff, but I thought that Helicopter was an extremely fun event, but very difficult. I had lots and lots of fun doing it, mostly because the designs were much more versatile than in Wright Stuff. It would have been easier to do if I had more than 3 days to build the working helicopter, but it was still fun.

my team hated heli.

Wright Stuff is the best fling event. What even is helicopter? Whats the point?

Its just like Wright Stuff, but you have to build a helicopter instead of an airplane. Other than that, its exactly the same.