Preferences for 2012 Lego Technic Challenge Rules

[DLuders]

As presented in this Eurobricks topic, there will soon be a 2012 Lego Technic Challenge to build a "4x4 Crawler" -- the winner gets to have it made into an official Lego Technic set!

Since it may be several weeks (until early October 2012?) before the 2012 Lego Technic Challenge Rules are made public, IN CASE THE LEGO GROUP IS OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS, what should the Challenge rules be? Select your answers above; your answers are private). Perhaps Jetro de Chateau (our Lego Ambassador) could forward the results to TLG's Jeppe Juul Jensen for consideration.

If you want to discuss any aspect of the potential rules, please add a reply below. Thanks!

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Edited September 11, 2012 by Ricecracker
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[Jetro]

I like the initiative and have already mentioned it on the Ambassador forum. However, the rules are very likely to have already been completed and rigorously checked to see that LEGO can deliver what it promises. Your input here may be valuable to LEGO Technic, but the effect on the rules for this competition is likely to be zero. Nevertheless, I'm curious to see what everybody thinks about this beforehand and how this opinion compares to the actual rules when published.

[hoeij]

My preference for an ideal technic set would be a set that comes with a huge number of models,

especially when the models are quite different from each other

(just like the set 10183 in the train theme, which has 30 AFOL-designed models).

[vmln8r]

It'd be nice if people built within the timeframe, rather than uploading something they'd prepared earlier.

[DLuders]

Your input here may be valuable to LEGO Technic, but the effect on the rules for this competition is likely to be zero.

I'm fairly sure that TLG's Technic Designers visit this forum, and could possibly consider the AFOLs' suggestions. After all, there's a high probability that the winning entrant is active on this forum (recall past Lego Technic Challenge winners ZBLJ in 2010, and Sheepo in 2011). It does no harm to state our preferences here....

Edited September 11, 2012 by DLuders

[DLuders]

Although there is no proof (one way or another), the Lego Technic Design Team MAY have heeded MOST (but not all) of the Eurobricks AFOLs preferences for the 2012 Lego Technic Challenge:

1) We wanted at least 8 WEEKS to submit entries (and got ~3 months, until the end of December 2012).

2) The Challenge DOES ALLOW for parts different from the standard 9398 set.

3) TLG's method to deter plagiarized entries = ? (not known so far) ?

4) TLG is willing to consider different parts colors (even sketches).

5) We preferred (by just a tad) to have the entries show the parts that AFOLs had on hand, but TLG is allowing sketches. X

6) The Challenge entry is REQUIRED to use Power Functions elements (since it will be based on the 9398's PF chassis).

7) The maximum "price point" of the future set is at least USD $200 (~$156,69 Euros).

8) Is more than one entry allowed per person? (not known so far) ? We preferred only one entry per person.

Edited September 30, 2012 by DLuders