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"Stack 'em quick, but stack 'em tall, or all of Warren College may fall!"
Sayings of the First Builders, The Builder's Book
The fabled Castle Black--which for centuries has stood sentinel, guarding the northern reaches of Warren College--has suffered a partial collapse. A party of Rangers have just returned and report that the Winter Quarter White Walkers are approaching!! There is little time to rebuild the damaged castle walls, and so all Builders have been called forth.
/three long horn blasts
The Professor Builders realize that only a diversity of designs can possibly rebuild the castle in time, and direct all MAE 3 Budding Builders to race to the rescue.
Quoth the Professor Builders: "Teams of MAE 3 Budding Builders must design a robot to stack building blocks onto the castle wall. Each team will repair their own section of the castle, using blocks staged in their area. There are also blocks at the location of the collapse, and these blocks are shared between both teams. The Winter Quarter White Walkers are excellent climbers, so you must rebuild the castle as high as possible! Teams will be scored by how many blocks are stacked in 60 seconds.
Each building block is a 3.8 cm (1 1/2'') cube and weighs 40 g (1.41 oz). There are 24 blocks in towers of 3 distributed across each area. In the center zone, there are an additional 18 blocks, each with a special one point bonus should they make it to the scoring area! But this challenge is only for the clever and brave... each group of Budding Builders must work together to design a wall-building robot from low power electric motors, custom transmissions and drive-trains, and only four control inputs."
Playing Field:
60 Second Competition:
Two robots will compete head to head for 60 seconds. Robots will try to collect and stack as many wooden blocks as possible. All scoring will be done at the completion of the contest after all parts have finished moving.
Wooden Block Collection Sites:
There are several areas where wooden blocks can be collected. Each side has 24 blocks and the center divider has 18 blocks, making a total of 66 blocks on the contest table.
Block Size: 3.8x3.8x3.8cm (1.5x1.5x1.5in)
Block Mass: 40g (1.41 oz)
The Scoring Area: rebuilding the castle wall
Stacking points:
Wooden blocks must be collected and placed onto the scoring platform to get points. Blocks are scored based on their height from the ground. Blocks higher off the ground are worth more points.
Zone 1: 0-3in (1pts)
Zone 2: 3-6in (2pts)
Zone 3: 6-9in (3pts)
Zone 4: >9in (4pts)
Bonus points:
Blocks on the center platform--which will be blue but otherwise identical to the other blocks--carry a bonus of 1 point per center block in the scoring area. At the end of a 60 sec round, judges will count the center blocks in the scoring area and add that to the stacking points described above to determine the total points.
Scoring Platforms
The scoring zones are shown
In order for the block to be scored, it must satisfy all three of these criterion once the clock stops:
The block cannot be touching the robot
The block must either be touching the scoring platform, or touching another block that is touching the platform, and etc...
Scoring will be based relative to the wall and block surfaces shown above
The entire block must be higher than the scoring zone to obtain maximum points.
Robot Contest Results from December 13, 2017
Complete Contest Pyramid and Results
Pyramid 1, Pyramid 2, Pyramid 3, Top 3
Contest Winners
High Quality Presentation Award
High Quality Animation Awards
High Quality Design Feature Award
Team 20 - J.R.A.G.on: Double 4-Bar with Counterweight
Team 48 - Column As We See 'Em: Cam Activated Column with Synchronous Orbit
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