Maelstrom

OK

Nice love it

super

Trackwork and supports were excellent, especially the detail that went into the portable "foundation" of the ride. Ladders and stuff around the lift hill were neat to look at as well. I noticed a small pump in the helix, but considering it enters and exits at a different radius and how it's made, not really a big deal. Shaping was pretty much nailed down how it should be as well. G's were well controlled, and it had the typical Gerstlauer pacing where it hits around 0 G's at the peak of all inversions. Why the hell do you have so many style separators around when the style doesn't change?

Pacing and presentation were very good as I mentioned above. The pier setting was neat, and I liked the queue line set up you had going for this. The ride reminded me very much of the Spongebob ride and Iron Shark if they were to have a baby. The attention to details like the stall before the lift, track squeaks, and the styling of everything including the supports was really well done.

The only thing that irks me on this ride is that I don't quite "get" the banana rollish thing right after the drop. The only existing one is thinner than yours from top view, which lets it travel slower at the peak and untwist itself a bit slower, but the way you had it despite being technically sound in the G department just made it seem a bit....pointless, especially when what Gerstlauer calls an "immelman" (the overbanked turn that is an inversion after the loop) is right after the vertical loop.

Anyways, I hope you upload more tracks, and I think if more people had entered this contest you would have placed towards the top because it's a very solid entry.

Also don't forget to lock your track, unless you want people like me unfreezing it and snooping around