Catapult Geek Index Calculator
Welcome to the Catapult Geek Index Calculator. This calculator
requires a web browser with JavaScript Enabled. You can use this
calculator to calculate your CGI and your CGC so you might better
identify yourself among your peers.
When counting catapults, please exclude air cannons, spud guns, and
sling shots. That's boring. While centripetal machines are not
technically catapults, you can include them.
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Catapult Design
To Invent a new catapult is to invent a catapult or catapult part
that uses a mechanism that has not been seen before.
To design a catapult is merely to create a design and plan that
implements a given catapult invention. It is ok to implement a design without
writing it down.
Bringing catapults somewhere to let people you don't know shoot them counts
as teaching a class.
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Invented |
100pts/invention |
Code
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| Designed |
20pts/design |
| Classes Taught |
10pts/session |
Catapults that you have built
The number of catapults you built or helped build.
Each catapult indexed must have been operated at least once and sent
a projectile in some direction (forward or back).
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Models (throws < 1lb) |
10pts/catapult |
Code
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| Large Models (throws 1 to 7 lbs) |
20pts |
| Competition (throws > 8 lbs) |
40pts |
Monsterous (throws cars) |
100pts |
Catapults In your garage
The number of catapults in your garage, house, yard, etc.
These catapults could have been built by you from raw materials or
from a kit. These catapults count if you can get them out and make
them fling with less than a day's notice.
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Models (throws < 1lb) |
1pt/catapult |
Code
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| Large Models (throws 1 to 7 lbs) |
3pts |
| Competition (throws > 8 lbs) |
10pts |
Catapult Competitions
The number of catapult competitions you have gone to and competed in.
If you went to the WCPC 4 times, and the Busti Chuck 2 times, then
your "Competed At" is 6, and the number of "Unique Contests" is 2.
If a competition you attended did not give out trophies, colored ribbons
and painted toilet seat covers count too.
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Competed At |
10pts/contest |
Code:
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| Trophies |
50pts/award |
| As Bystander |
1pt/contest |
| Unique Contests |
Multiplier |
Catapult Documentation
Documenting catapults for others takes many forms. For a web site,
you can include a website for a team you belong to, but you must
appear on the website as a team member. Plans specify a set of plans
for a specific type of catapult that you have made available via some
publication medium such as the Internet.
A Book is a commercial publication only.
A Video counts if you directed and edited a film
of at least 45 minutes for commercial broadcast or publication, you could include
that as a Book.
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Web Site (In MB) |
1pt/MB |
Code:
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| Plans Written |
20pts/doc |
| Books Written |
50pts/book |
| Videos Directed |
35pts/video |
