Supercharged
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Location: Brisbane, Australia
Cars: 1997 Toyota Starlet Life 3dr
Re: Survival of the fittest [FINISHED]
squidhead wrote:HighOctaneLove wrote:The eco run was marked as Round 0, which suggests it was for shits and giggles rather than an actual part of the competition
The point of the round 0 was to get the people who did not pay any attention and give a serious thought to their build out of it, so I would not have to process 20+ cars in round 1 manually doing a maths exam for a few hours, and only work with cars that have been built to spec. Note how 2 cars actually ran EXACT length of the round 0 on full tank. That is calculation, that shows that they did pay attention, and if you look closer to the results - people who thought more about it and actually played their strategy card well went straight into the final. Everybody who didn't, including me - did not. Everybody who did not care enough to do simple math got left on the hard shoulder.HighOctaneLove wrote:it is insulting to suggest that I slapped together a shit-box and said "Fuck it, it'll do"
Get a stopwatch out and a calculator.
1) Weight of your car * 0.05
2) Consumption at 120kph * 40
3) If the result of 1 is less than result of 2 then your car isn't going to finish the run.
Help me out here, what am I supposed to think if you did not do this yourself? That you gave your build enough thought? Here's an approach that worked out with best economy as described by Madrias :Madrias wrote:with spit-ball math for my fuel economy and then hope for the best on the rest.
IT WORKED
And what am I supposed to think about your competition construction skills if YOU can't make a car that qualifies for your own competition?
You take a casual swipe at others professionalism yet you're phoning-in your effort with a non-starter...
That being said, your eco round did work well as a crowd thinning tool, so it definitely did it's job, however I will contend that if you want less entrants then make the rules more complex, rather than having arbitrary and crude host-generated hurdles that serve no purpose other than to exclude contestants.
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