{"id":560,"date":"2007-03-04T02:27:04","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T08:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=560"},"modified":"2007-03-04T02:30:38","modified_gmt":"2007-03-04T08:30:38","slug":"germans-plan-on-holding-a-space-elevator-contest-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"Germans plan on holding a Space Elevator Contest in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"114\" src=\"\/media\/IngMath.Net%202008Logo.jpg\"  height=\"78\" style=\"width: 114px; height: 78px\" \/>Arthur Shay, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamzerog.com\/\">Team Zero G<\/a> (the latest qualified entrant into the 2007 Space Elevator Games), forwarded a VERY interesting email to me yesterday.\u00a0 It seems that the Germans are now going to have their own version of the Space Elevator Games in February of 2008.\u00a0 These games are being organized by\u00a0the Max Born Project, the people behind the German Turbo-Crawler entry into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceward.org\">Spaceward<\/a> 2006 Space Elevator Games.<\/p>\n<p>The length of the racetrack is 50 meters and the (undetermined) prize(s) will be awarded to the top 3 finishers.\u00a0 If I&#8217;m reading the rules correctly (I&#8217;m reading the not-so-good English translation, but I&#8217;m sure the German version is fine), teams only get three days to put their climbers together, with the sponsors providing the light beam energy source.\u00a0 So, this version of the Space Elevator games is not as ambitious (yet) as the ones being put on by the Spaceward Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>But these are the Germans.\u00a0 Their entrant into the 2006 Space Elevator games was one of only four that made it all the way to the top (along with MClimber, Litewon and USST).\u00a0 They have another entry (not Turbo-Crawler) into this year&#8217;s competition.\u00a0 If this idea catches on in Germany, it could be fun&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A .jpg version of the email can be found <a href=\"\/media\/GermanSpaceElevatorGames2008Announcement.jpg\">here<\/a> and a .pdf version of the rulebook can be found <a href=\"\/media\/GermanSpaceElevatorGamesRulebook-2008.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Shay, from Team Zero G (the latest qualified entrant into the 2007 Space Elevator Games), forwarded a VERY interesting email to me yesterday.\u00a0 It seems that the Germans are now going to have their own version of the Space Elevator Games in February of 2008.\u00a0 These games are being organized by\u00a0the Max Born Project, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}