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Subject:	Re: rtlToronto19: Balance of Power and other upcoming events
Newsgroups:	lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto
Date:	Thu, 3 Mar 2005 21:40:47 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Iain Hendry wrote: > > One thing to consider: if the broomstick is used, someone will have to build it. In > > fact, several people may have to build it (for testing). > > > > If a 2x4 is used, anyone can easily test at home. More people will enter. > > That's a really good point. Maybe we should just use another 2x4 at the base, > running horizontally, fixed? > > Just another thought - what if we had a beam not only below, but above, > equidistant from the main beam centreline, and did that? That would totally > leave people open to pulling from below, pushing from above, or do > whutevertheyheck they like! Steve's point is correct. Even with a 2x4 above or below, you still need to build the entire frame to hold the beam 2x4, then build the broomstick/bottom 2x4 too if you want pull it. If this option wasn't in the game, then players only need a beam 2x4 and don't even need to joint it. Calum

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		Re: rtlToronto19: Balance of Power and other upcoming events
(...) Look back was rtlToronto9, Show Me the Monkey, the one with the ladder like thing in the video? (It was pre-me-n-rtlT, so I don't know) Was the complexity of the "playfield" such that there were less competators? Did most people build a mockup (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

		Re: rtlToronto19: Balance of Power and other upcoming events
(...) Well that's their choice if they want to use that beam. I say if they're going to do that, let them build that structure (if they want - I certainly don't think it's necissary for proving a concept). It's just pushing a beam/pulling a beam. (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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		Re: rtlToronto19: Balance of Power and other upcoming events
(...) See this is what makes it so durn fun. :) (...) That's a really good point. Maybe we should just use another 2x4 at the base, running horizontally, fixed? Just another thought - what if we had a beam not only below, but above, equidistant from (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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