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For those of you who have spring launches, how close are you able to get it? Our distance scores have been roughly 20-30 cm. Any closer and the car is just too variable.

Well, at states not too well... In practice we could actually get pretty close (<10cm), and we didn't actually have much skidding. (Our run time with photogates was 2.1sec, hand timed at 2sec) Probably because we were slow for a spring launcher, but my partner was super concerned about the second trigger firing so he made me take some of the rubber bands off... And our braking axle was 3d printed and not quite straight.

Hey, does anyone know what the winning run was at nationals?

also interested in scores for scramblers..
saw first place's run, but didnt get to time it. 0cm on second run....seemed like 2.5 seconds, very fast for pulley launcher?
2nd place was faster i believe...1.8 seconds? not sure on distance..10cm?

_HenryHscioly_ wrote:also interested in scores for scramblers..
saw first place's run, but didnt get to time it. 0cm on second run....seemed like 2.5 seconds, very fast for pulley launcher?
2nd place was faster i believe...1.8 seconds? not sure on distance..10cm?

My distance score was 4.5 cm on my first run (the better of the 2) with a run time of about 1.7ish seconds (maybe 1.8). I forgot to ask about the time but I wish I had because my car was faster before I got to Nats but then once I got there I had some issues with the spring launcher. I think I fixed it completely but im not sure. (I got second btw ) Also I did see the first place team and I know they got a distance score of 0 but i think there time was like 2.3 seconds. It was a pretty sweet car and system! Great job!

Anyone know what happened to the car that had a crazy time of sub-1 second? I want to say that it was Mounds View, not sure. If it was Mounds View, they only got 9th place (I think) with a time of below 1 second

National Results: Track length of 9.9 m
(Place, Distance, Time, Score (rounded to 3 places))
1st, 0.0 cm, 2.3801 s, 11.901
2nd, 4.3 cm, 2.1524 s, 15.062
3rd, 4.4 cm, 2.1554 s, 15.177
4th, 6.6 cm, 2.6591 s, 19.896
5th, 3.4 cm, 3.3946 s, 20.373
6th, 6.5 cm, 2.8237 s, 20.619
7th, 7.6 cm, 2.6427 s, 20.814
8th, 7.1 cm, 2.8798 s, 21.499
9th, 14.8 cm, 1.3873 s, 21.737*
10th, 5.2 cm, 3.3189 s, 21.795

*Had faster time on 2nd run (and fastest of all National Scramblers) of 1.3626 s but SCRAMBLED egg....

See you next year!

National Event Supervisor, Scrambler

Hey guys I know it's been a while but at Illinois scioly State the distance given was 9.0 meters and I am wondering if that would be something allowed for next year? The states distances are supposed to be chosen from intervals of .5 meters but the director said that it never specified in the rules what the starting point of the .5 m would be. They are correct in that. The rules does not say it must be one of the distances that are in .5 m increments from 8.7 meters to 11.7 meters. Is there a way there could be a portion in the rules for next year that could make sure something like this does not happen again?

thsom wrote:Hey guys I know it's been a while but at Illinois scioly State the distance given was 9.0 meters and I am wondering if that would be something allowed for next year? The states distances are supposed to be chosen from intervals of .5 meters but the director said that it never specified in the rules what the starting point of the .5 m would be. They are correct in that. The rules does not say it must be one of the distances that are in .5 m increments from 8.7 meters to 11.7 meters. Is there a way there could be a portion in the rules for next year that could make sure something like this does not happen again?

I think that was something that everyone just understood. If the increments were between 8.7 and 11.7, it's pretty understandable that the values within were literally the only way you could have .5 increments and have it not have a .2 increment or a .3 increment somewhere. However, I can understand how the event supervisor pulled his logic from, and unless you were the first team to run, correcting the problem would have only led to more problems through the competition being unfair for all teams.

Right, which is why I was wondering if there was anywhere I could file a request to have this considered when making the rules for next year?