WRITE
IT, DO IT
Description: Team describes and builds an object
Number of Participants: 2
The Competition
1. One team members enters the room, listens to directions from the
judge, and is given a pre-assembled object made of Legos.
A. That team
member has a maximum of 12 minutes to write a description of the object,
while the second team member is waiting in the hall.
B. No drawing or diagrams are allowed in the description.
Abbreviations are allowed, including those created by the team.
C. No writing that is in the form of a configuration of the
layers is permitted. While no list of rules can be made to
encompass all illegal descriptions, several are included on the
following page. A
simple rule of thumb is, if you wonder if your method of describing the
object is illegal, it most likely is.
D. When the first half
of the time period (a total of 15 minutes into the time period) is over, the
team member who did the writing leaves the room.
E. The directions and a set of pieces of Lego are left for the
other team member.
2. The second team member enters the room to assemble the object.
A. This team member uses the written description and the
unassembled Lego pieces to construct an object as identical as possible
to the original.
B. When finished, or time expires, the teams directions and
object are turned into the judge.
3. A maximum of 16 Lego pieces will be used. Only these colors
will be used: red, white, black, blue and yellow. Pieces
with this many pegs will be used: 4, 6 and 8 [a peg means the round
projection on the top, each of which bears the name Lego]. Lego pieces can be
either "thick" or "thin". See photo.
Scoring
Team with the greatest amount of pieces in the proper location and
position wins.
Tie Breaker: the least amount of time
to assemble the object is the tie
breaker.