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At our State competition 4 teams got the maximum possible points (all tasks compteted, 40 seconds of mass moving and perfect timing) so it went to tie breaker. Since the first tiebreaker is fewest penalty points, and none of these teams got any penalty points, the tiebreaker became closest to ideal ...

It's good to have an equation on your graphs to get a good estimate for obscure amounts like that... an equation?! wtf how do u do that?? We use the equation for a ballistic trajectory, including aerodynamic drag, then we use our empirical data as a correction factor. We have a doppler wind speed i...

I do think that it would be appropriate to ask the person who's device is in the picture if they are ok with having their design posted for everyone to see. I have seen people go to great lengths to get pictures of other teams devices so that they can copy them, and I am quite sure that the team who...

Any problem using electronics in a mousetrap vehicle? I do understand that the only energy source allowed is the mousetrap/s but is there anything that prohibits electronics if one can find a way to legally power them?

OK maybe I am confused but I don't see anything about a bonus for using a photocell in Mission Possible. I do see one of the tasks involves the use of a photocell but I see no bonus points awarded for it in the scoring section of the rules. Am I missing something or is this thread simply about the p...

I am wondering if I am confused about the scoring. In one of the posts earlier in this thread someone said that he got a score of under 5 with a vehicle that had a distance score of 0.5cm and was relatively slow. Now relatively slow could mean something very different to different people but by my f...