 | | From: | Mike Diack | | Subject: | Scrapheap question for Bruce Simpson | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:27:12 GMT |
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 | Just how much choice do the teams get in how they go about building what
they build?. With the shining exception of the morrie minor powered mini
slinger, it seems like the team who builds the simplest machine always
wins, as was amply demonstrated in the tank challenge. Obviously they
attempt to have some differences between the opposing machines, but how
prescriptave is it ?.How much time do they REALLY get to build the things
(it often goes from broad daylight to pitch black in the last "hour").
M
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| | From: | E. Scrooge | | Subject: | Re: Scrapheap question for Bruce Simpson | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 22:00:17 +1300 |
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"Mike Diack" wrote in message
news:Xns95E5DA3C3CF67mobykcbbsgennz@203.96.92.12...
> Just how much choice do the teams get in how they go about building what
> they build?. With the shining exception of the morrie minor powered mini
> slinger, it seems like the team who builds the simplest machine always
> wins, as was amply demonstrated in the tank challenge. Obviously they
> attempt to have some differences between the opposing machines, but how
> prescriptave is it ?.How much time do they REALLY get to build the things
> (it often goes from broad daylight to pitch black in the last "hour").
> M
Some key items are obviously planted for the teams to find. Like full gas
bottles are scattered round the scrap yard, and other much needed things.
Fully charged batteries would be another plant.
Notice how both teams always get something built? No one team fails to
start a contest with something they've failed to build.
It's all about entertainment though.
E. Scrooge
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| | From: | bruzie | | Subject: | Re: Scrapheap question for Bruce Simpson | | Date: | 22 Jan 2005 01:39:24 -0800 |
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| "The Nerds" (the first American team to appear on Scraphead) have a
website that detailed their experience - http://the-nerds.org/
Basically, there's more than the two days used, and the yard is seeded
with stuff you couldn't make safely - Bruce's LPG cylinder would have
been placed there, with the safety certificate stashed away in the
producer's briefcase.
>From their FAQ:
"5. Who provides the expert? What do they know about the challenge?
RDF finds the experts, and assigns them to the teams. Each expert knows
in advance what the challenge is to be, and has submitted suggested
designs, with a critical parts shopping list. The team meets their
assigned expert the night before the build in the hotel bar, and a
running joke is that you can't ask what they do for a living. All we
found out the night before about our last expert was that he was an
amateur league cricket player."
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| | From: | PeteB | | Subject: | Re: Scrapheap question for Bruce Simpson | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 08:17:11 +1300 |
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"Mike Diack" wrote in message
news:Xns95E5DA3C3CF67mobykcbbsgennz@203.96.92.12...
> Just how much choice do the teams get in how they go about building what
> they build?. With the shining exception of the morrie minor powered mini
> slinger, it seems like the team who builds the simplest machine always
> wins, as was amply demonstrated in the tank challenge. Obviously they
> attempt to have some differences between the opposing machines, but how
> prescriptave is it ?.How much time do they REALLY get to build the things
> (it often goes from broad daylight to pitch black in the last "hour").
That's the effect of Good Old Blightie.... winter months its dark by 3pm!
My biggest concern in the current series being aired on Prime presently is
the old boat's hull that receives a nasty pounding with the steel ball. I
hope to heavens that boat isn't some famous old one that participated in the
War effort that saved so many lives.....(when all the small boats were
called to cross the Channel to the beaches of France). I know it seems
trivial but there is a very serious group of Anarak individuals who are
actively seeking such vessels and arrangeing their storage for future
restorations .....
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