Sunday, January 21, 2007

Trebuchet Competition!!!

ASME has organised a Trebuchet competition in NUS on 20/1/07...
Specially for Mech Engin students...

No participation fee!!!
Materials are provided!!!
Cash prize of $1000 to be won!!!

The chance to use your trebuchet to throw water bombs at your lecturers for setting so difficult exam questions!!!

Sounds like fun right??

Maybe lar but have to get your butt off the bed on a saturaday morning...
ZZZzzzz...

When I arrive at the SRC field bright and not-so-early on that day, I saw quite a number of students have came and were surrounding those Trebuchets...
It was only a little after 9am (the time the competition starts) so there will be some that are late...
Wah, I didn't know ME students so supportive...

Until I realised that those groups of students are the competitors, not the audience...
>__<;

When the ME people have more or less arrived, I realised that there are just as many contestants as there are audience (Or maybe even more)...
Which is not very much at all when are there are about 200-300 ME students...
Why!!! ME people show your support lehhhh...

In any case you guys have no idea what a Trebuchet looks like, here's a sample... Wahhh...

Ooohhh...

Before your eyes pop out, here is a picture of the average size of a Trebuchet made by our Mech Engin students...
Cos of have to be this size lar, you think they use what to build??
With their Bare Hands leh!!! (and other simple tools...)
Photos taken from Chillycrap...

It is the first time ASME is organising such an event...
So it is liable to have some hiccups here and there...

Late starting off...
Lousy mike...
Lousy sound system...
Lousy songs choices...
Some Lousy guy-trying-to-host-the-whole-thing...

He is super lousy, that is one of the main peeve I have for the day...
He speaks too fast, the words are too mumbled up, and the things he says are too cheesy...
Anyway, I doubt anyone was listening to him... Cos when he try to engage the audience, they ignored him...
Our lecturers also kinda bo chap him too... Cos there's this time when he ask our Thermo lecturer about what he thinks of the competition and turn-out etc...
And he was saying all these while the lecturer was back facing him!!!
(Can't he get anyone's attention properly?? Duh, it would be easier if he stood IN FRONT of our lecturer and says what he wants to say...)
When the Thermo lecturer finally noticed him, he says "Yes??"...
Obviously he have no idea what was the question being posted to him...
Buwhahahaaa...


Back to the competition...
Although the basic shape of those trebuchet made by ME student were more or less the same, I'm still impressed by some of it...

One trebuchet even has a laser pointer... This is to help them in laser precision!!!
There is another that looks like a tank!!! So big, and its system was totally unique!!!
Instead of a pivot, it uses a... a... Oh man, I dunno how to describe it...
A picture paints a thousand words, so I shall attempt to draw it here...

Normal Trebuchet...

I guess my picture only paints 5 words lar...

Ok, I give up, here is the photo, which I got from Snoookems blog...
Hope you don't mind!!!
Wow...

There are also many others with quirky designs...
Then there one trebuchet deck in camouflage, one painted in tiger stripes, one in a nice blue and white design, and one in chinese new year decoration O_o...
There rest are all in basic solid colours or unpainted at all...

Nice!!!

Too early liao lar...

But me and Yenl were sort of discussing about the guidlines of the competition...
I have read about the rules for it, and I remembered that there are certain things they have to follow i.e: the length and height of the trebuchet, the weight etc...
So how come some of them (who obviously flout those rules) are still allowed to compete?!?

Duh, judges, where are your eyes?!?!?!


But overall the competition was quite fun...
Photos from Chillycraps again...


This is the team I have came to support...
The Bobo Shooter!!!
Beany is in this team, and so is Chillycrap...

Some of the team members...

Our lecturers preparing to be hit by water bombs!!!

There are altogether 5 lecturers for the teams to target...
Wow, they are so game!!!
Look at the picture, they are wearing red cloaks that read "HIT ME"!!!
Hahahahahahaa!!!

Our judges??!!

Preparing their Weapon of Lecturers Destruction!!!

The refreshment provided was surprisingly yummy...
But right after the refreshments and attendance taking, almost all of the audience have left...
In fact, I wouldn't be surprise if me and Yenl were the only audience left...
(Nick left right after the attendance taking, he wants to go home and sleep...
Who ask you to play Warcraft till 3am?!)

After the refreshments, Beany keeps on telling me to leave...

Beany: Eh, you can go home liao...

Me: But I want to stay and watch...

Beany: You stay and watch for what?!? Don't be so stupid lar...

Me: My Cap score is below 4, I am stupid enough...

Beany: ... Don't be so--- loser lar...

Me: I have been a loser for the past one and a half hour liao, might as well loser all the way...

Beany: ...

A few minutes later...
Me (sms-ing Beany): Yo... This loser is feeling bored... Where are you??

Beany (sms-ing back): I'm crapping with Chillycraps...

Beany later brought Chillycrap to chat with me...
Even though I sort of knew Chillycrap through blogging, and have commented on each other blogs pretty often, this is the first time I have ever chat with him instead of the usual "Hello" and wave-my-hand kind...

For my friends who are curious about him...

Chillycrap is...

Very crappy...

Hahahahahahaa... =-p

Then Both of them started telling me to leave!!!
Argghhh...

Beany: Eh she don't want to leave...

Chillycrap: Huh?? Why you don't want to leave???


I am a very curious bunny!!!
I want to see the rest if the trebuchet laaaaaaaaa...

So far, there's about 5 teams out of 16 who have managed to hit the lecturers once...
Each direct hit was 200 points... The inner circle is worth 50 points, second circle is 15 points while the last circle is 5 points...

Bobo Shooter got 150, cos all of their water bombs landed in the inner circle, quite close to the lecturer...
Wah wasted leh, it is the precision that is the problem, their distance was good, but just suay enough that all of their water bombs missed the target...
The highest I think was 300 points, one direct hit and two hits in inner circle...


Never mind!!! At least you guys have fun right!!!
I enjoyed watching those trebuchet in action too!!!
Hahahahaaa...

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15 Comments:

At 10:41 PM, Blogger chillycraps said...

wow, that's quite detailed and quite a lot of photo-leeching...

really very crappy meh? I thought I was quite serious leh...

and thanks for the support!

 
At 11:28 PM, Blogger snoookems said...

averii, any idea who won???

 
At 12:22 PM, Blogger averii said...

Chillycrap:
Hahahaa...
Some parts quite crappy lar...
I no camera mah, so have to kope from others...


Snoookems:
I think the second is the camouflage team, and third is the one with laser-pointer...
But I forgot who is the first team!!! Hahaha...

 
At 1:11 AM, Blogger Dusty said...

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At 1:14 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

hi there... i'm new to ur bloggie! i'm curious why you guys prefer comments to tagboards...haha... issit becos got alot of ppl will say sth, so the tagboard isn't big enuff? lol..

 
At 1:28 AM, Blogger averii said...

Comments are better esp for bloggers for they can sign in with their blogger name...
Ya, there are also more space for you guys to crap in here!!! Hahaha...

And it is more organised anyway...

 
At 6:40 AM, Blogger chillycraps said...

actually I prefer comments (that's why i didn't include a tagboard on my blog) cos comments usually stay whereas tagboard you still need to see the history for old messages. So if you are reading a particular entry and want to see what others think of it, you can just click and see.

And when you see the number of comments increasing, you also will feel high =P

 
At 1:47 PM, Blogger averii said...

Then I bet you are feeling so damn high everyday...

Which also means I am feeling low many times!!! Hahahahah too many 0 comments...

 
At 10:25 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

oh I seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Maybe not having tagboards attracts more ppl to leave comments... cos chillicrap's and averii's blog no tagboard, but so many comments one... *envious.

 
At 10:26 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh, but bad thing about comments is that you have to scroll down and check whether there are new comments for every post leh...

 
At 11:55 AM, Blogger chillycraps said...

no lah, my blog you can see the side bar to see the latest comments and which entry is that.

 
At 9:58 PM, Blogger averii said...

Me and Myself:
I used to have a tagboard... But dunno wad happened to it, and I'm too lazy to go and create one more...

Ehhhhh, my blog don't really have alot of comments... Only when I wrote errrmmm "interesting" posts or when my entries has the names of my friends who loves to comment... Hahaha...

Ya, that is the bad thing about comments... Hahaha...


Chillycrap:
Ya, I saw that thingy... That's very useful!!!
Hee, care to share the html of the special feature in your blog??

 
At 2:14 AM, Blogger carrotcak said...

Aiyo jus kapo his source code can liao.. =X...

Can always get a Cbox if u wan... Ur acct wun get deleted like flobble chatterbox... HaHa...

 
At 6:33 AM, Blogger chillycraps said...

my source code looks a little different from the real code, you search in google think can find quite a lot of versions of that code.

 
At 10:53 AM, Blogger averii said...

Carrotcak:
I dunno how to kapo his (wad???) source code lar...
=-p


Chillycrap:
Google arh?? Okie... I shall go Goo for it... (if I'm not too lazee lar)

 

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