Bridge B/C

[jgrischow1]

This forum is pretty dead so I thought I would enliven it with some hot silica talk.

So my kid had a bridge that he pre-tested and it held the whole weight. He put it in silica night before State tourney and it dropped a further .18 grams. Tested in on camera for the remote tourney and it broke holding 14,968 grams...32 from the bonus!!!

So my question is did we do the right thing. Our options were:

1. No silica and just test it on camera knowing we pre-tested it.
2. Silica and pre-test it again right before filming knowing it will regain some weight and every additional test means closer to breaking
3. Silica and test it on camera...what we did

Obviously it's impossible to know if it broke because drying it made it more brittle or it only had one test in it or whatever...but is there an optimal strategy?

Update on this...surprisingly, we ended up finishing 4th in the Ohio Division B state tourney. Our bridge weighed 5.96 g after silica (6.14 before) and broke at 14,968 grams as previously mentioned. So the top 3 Div B bridges in Ohio I'm assuming held the whole weight and weighed less than 7.9 grams, or possibly they broke early as well but were even lighter than ours!

[random-person]

Finished NC state tournament -_- our bridge held 14.47kg. :( Somehow came 6th lol, we didn't do very well... the bridge gained a couple tenths of a gram(?????)

[kjlokesh]

Our Team came 4th with 7.22g bridge held 15 kg and 50 g and broke. So lucky to cross the 15kg mark. We didn't make to the nationals. Good luck to all the team who made it to nationals.

[kjlokesh]

Our Team came 4th with 7.22g bridge held 15 kg and 50 g and broke. So lucky to cross the 15kg mark. We didn't make to the nationals. Good luck to all the team who made it to nationals.

[Tall]

Our Team came 4th with 7.22g bridge held 15 kg and 50 g and broke. So lucky to cross the 15kg mark. We didn't make to the nationals. Good luck to all the team who made it to nationals.

That was a good score though. For which state you were competing?

[kjlokesh]

Michigan. Top score range somewhere between 3500 - 3900.

We tried to build few bridges under 7 none hold more than 13kg.

[Tall]

Michigan. Top score range somewhere between 3500 - 3900.

We tried to build few bridges under 7 none hold more than 13kg.

Wow. Its a tough competition there.

[Tall]

Michigan. Top score range somewhere between 3500 - 3900.

We tried to build few bridges under 7 none hold more than 13kg.

Was it for Division C or B?

[kjlokesh]

Division B

[Bagman82]

Any 2022 Nationals Bridge Scores out yet?