Jim

Nobody failed! Thanks hehe Don't forget @Milan and in this case the judges.

One of the best Technic contests we have ever had, with nothing less than 23 outstanding entries. Click here or on the collage to see all entries. Click here to visit the results topic. 1. 42082 Rough Terrain crane by Akassin - 133 Points 2. 42043 Arocs by 2GodBDGlory - 126 Points 3. 42069 Extreme Adventure by Zerobricks - 122 Points COLLAGE OF ALL ENTRIES

The results are in!

Congrats to all the winners and thanks to all participants for making this contest a huge success. I will contact the top 3 shortly for their prizes.

Exactly. No need to sugarcoat it.

TECHNIC SHRINKING CONTEST - RESULTS TOPIC 1. 42082 Rough Terrain crane by Akassin - 133 Points 2. 42043 Arocs by 2GodBDGlory - 126 Points 3. 42069 Extreme Adventure by Zerobricks - 122 Points VOTING PROCESS The jury consisted of six Eurobricks "Technic members". We each made a list of all entries, ranking them from 1st to 23rd. Scoring was very basic. 1st place got 23 points and last place got 1 point. We tallied the votes to come to the final result. As promised we will provide a short explanation for the top-3 entries. All things considered this contest was one of the best in EB's history. It was very hard to judge. Seeing your entry low(er) on the list, definitely doesn't mean that it wasn't good. It simply means others were considered slightly better. We absolutely loved every entry on the list, but we did have to put them in order which ultimately lead to these results. 42082 Rough Terrain Crane by Akassin It's a very clean recreation and it was done so well that it looks like this is the scale that Lego should have released 42084 originally. Maybe not as risky of a choice, or as difficult to pull off as the Arocs, as some did say that the original perhaps should have been smaller to start with, however Akassin's very nicely and cleanly finished build and very well thought out and efficient gear mechanisms makes us easily able to see this released as an official set. He has also managed to keep all of the functions without making them manual representations, keeping all of them being moved by some geared mechanism. Overall we do think this is the best execution of all the models. Arocs by 2GodBDGlory The Arocs, unlike some other sets on this list, was pretty much universally liked, no-one said it was too big and it was packed full with functions, no wasted space at all. But somehow 2GodBDGlory has managed to shrink it down to roughly 1/8 of it's original volume whilst retaining all but one function (that being the inline engine). He has 4 sprung axles, two of them steered, geared outwards motion of the outriggers with a clever and creative use of connection pins to make the vertical movement of the outriggers, and that's just in the first few studs of height. On top of that he has retained all 4 pneumatic functions and all controlled from a centralized location in the cab. This leads to the models only weakness which is that the valves have made the cab one stud too tall, making it look slightly off compared to the original. But apart from that he has kept the look and feel of the original in what looks to be a fairly sturdy and clean overall design. In short, the Arocs was not a safe option to shrink, it was a risky choice due to it already being packed full of functions in its original scale, but 2GodBDGlory has pulled it off brilliantly in a way that made it look deceptively easy (although we know it wasn't), keeping the majority of it's functions in a much much smaller but still clean and sleek package that's true to the original. 42069 Extreme Adventure by Zerobricks. Much like Akassin did with 42082 (as well as Grohl with his Ford GT), Zerobricks showed that some things might actually be better in smaller packages. Zerobricks' recreation looks just as good, retains almost all of the functions, and is just as cleanly well finished as the original. However, it's all done with fewer pieces. We could argue that, for the most part, all he really had to do was swap out big pieces for smaller pieces, but we know it's way more complicated than that. The part count reduction also shows that much more thought went into its design than that. If the panels were available in purple, it might have ended even higher. FULL RESULTS 1. 42082 Rough Terrain crane by Akassin - 133 Points (entry 11)2. 42043 Arocs by 2GodBDGlory - 126 Points (entry 2)3. 42069 Extreme Adventure by Zerobricks - 122 Points (entry 13)4. 8479 Barcde Truck by Berthil - 120 Points (entry 10)5. 42053 Volvo EW160E by artemisovsky - 117 Points (entry 3)6. 42113 Osprey by JoKo - 99 Points (entry 1)7. 8109 Flatbed Truck by SaperPL - 94 Points (entry 8)8. 42042 Crane by MangaNOID - 92 Points (entry 17)9. 41999 4x4 Crawler Exclusive Edition by gyenesvi - 83 Points (entry 19)10. 8284 Tractor by falconluan - 82 Points (entry 5)11. 8868 Airtech Claw Rig by Icvisser - 73 Points (entry 9)12. 41999 4x4 Crawler Exclusive Edition by rhplus - 69 Points (entry 18)13. 8436 Truck by Jundis - 63 Points (entry 16)14. 42039 24 Hour Race Car by NoEXIST - 57 Points (entry 4)15. 8063 tractor with Trailer by Thirdwigg - 56 Points (entry 20)16. 42054 Claas Xerion by Ngoc Nguyen - 48 Points (entry 21)17. 8446 Crane Truck by Equilibrium - 41 Points (entry 14)18. 42098 Car Transporter by msk6003 - 40 Points (entry 6)19. 8868 Airtech Claw Rig by howitzer - 40 Points (entry 22)20. 8464 B-model by Saruzeufel - 38 Points (entry 12)21. 8454 Rescue Vehicle by HorcikDesigns - 34 Points (entry 23)22. 8081 Extreme Cruiser by imdesigner42 - 15 Points (entry 15)23. 8110 Unimog by TechnicMOCer - 14 Points (entry 7) COLLAGE OF ALL ENTRIES

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We can call it anything we want, but at the end of the day it's contest. We have ran 25 contests and now we need to change the name because one or two persons have issues with some things. Starting to sound like the real world

This is a separate index for our contests. Generic Contest Discussion

Cool!

I don't have any issues seeing the videos. You might want to try a different browser or incognito to see if you still have the problem. Looks like something local to your computer.

Wow, that looks pretty sexy to me! Do you have a link to a product page?

General Index, Generic Index or maybe Main Index and possibly, a separate Contest Index

Exactly. Like the current Index, but a "spinoff" if you will.

Regarding this question; we do have the Technic Index, but what do you guys think of creating a separate pinned Contest Index topic?

Yup. We usually frontpage the collage when the voting starts. We haven't done this, because of the jury voting. But maybe we can something similar anyway.

You might be right about this. Is this something we can backup/prove with results from previous contests?

This is actually the idea for my first contest. But then TLG suggested to do a Triple Build contest. We have never done this anymore. We will definitely do this one day, but it's not at the top of my list right now. I don't agree with you on this one. For me, adding motors and electronics doesn't add much in terms of the build. This is one of the main reasons I mostly don't allow electronics. People tend to think they can do special stuff with electronics, but most functions can be made manual. For me, it's mostly about the build and the functions. These functions don't need to be operated electronically to make a good model. But I am interested to hear other people's thoughts on this matter.

Agreed. I am thinking about simply allowing electronics for the next contest instead of a dedicated electronics contest. Yup. O wait, I just commented

PS or did you mean in general?

Or in our caste; The Best Place to Hide a Pinned Topic is at the Top of the Topic List

Try looking at the currently pinned topics. Not a lot of them. You will figure it out

Who did this? A WIP topic is a WIP topic. "Distracting the viewers"?! It's not a Youtube channel.

Yes. there is. Have you checked if there could be a logical pinned topic with this information?

Of course. I knew I had to add another one, but didn't remember which one. Done.