The video from this year’s first place climb by USST is now on YouTube.
Thanks to Clayton Ruszkowski from the USST team for the tip – and, once again, congratulations to Clayton and the rest of the USST team for their very impressive performance this year. Team USST finished first in both the 2005 and 2006 Space Elevator games and have to be considered the early, heavy favorites for the 2007 Games.
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A half-million dollars (US Dollars no less) would buy an awful lot of Canadian Beer…
Daily Archives: November 18, 2006
Rulebooks for next year’s Space Elevator Games now available!
The initial Rulebooks for next year’s Climber (Power Beaming) and Tether competitions have been posted by Elevator2010. To quote Ben Shelef, Elevator2010 CEO; “We’re taking public comments on the rulebooks, [and] will post 1.0 rulebooks by the end of the month.”
The Climber (Power Beaming) rulebook can be found here and the Tether rulebook can be found here. Of course, both are available on the Elevator2010 website.
One new item noted on the Elevator2010 website is a Climber competition for newbies; “If you are a new team, and only want to try your hand at it, we have the “limited” games, in which no money is on the line (as of yet…), the metric is 1 m/s, and the height is comparable to this year’s games. We will publish a separate rulebook for the limited competition shortly.”
So, for all you future competitors, now’s the time to get started!! Holidays? Who cares about the holidays?