JazzLand Inversion Challenge (RESULTS pg22)

JazzLand Inversion Challenge

Yesterday, we recieved the following letter from Six Flags New Orleans:


coastercrazy.com Staff
534 Amusement Drive
Compton, CA 90262
United States of America


Dear coastercrazy.com staff

Six Flags New Orleans has a big request to the members of your website. As you know, our park has recently sustained a large hit from Hurricane Katrina. Tourism is down, and in order to bring our valued guests back, we will be introducing a new coaster for the 2006 season.

We have seen some truly inspiring designs from the members on your website, and we believe that a coaster design by one of them would be an amazing addition to our park. There is a grass plain right next to our popular MegaZeph coaster, which is where the new coaster will be placed. A picture of the ride area is included, along with an outline of where the station and queue line should be placed. We are asking that you hold a contest amongst your greatest designers. The winning design will be promptly turned over to the coaster?????????s manufacturers and constructed.

Intamin will be the coaster?????????s manufacturer. In order to do something that will truly make the coaster stand out and attract guests, we would like to break the world record for the most inversions on a coaster (more than 10). For additional interest, the coaster should be a suspended looping coaster. Also, since we would like to have as original of a design as possible, we request that the coaster should not have repeated series of inversions such as the quad barrel roll on Colossus. In addition, we ask that each coaster design contain an original element to set it apart from other coasters.

We have very limited time in which to construct our new coaster, so we must have all of the design submissions before December 5. We will judge the coasters based on how comfortable the ride is for the guest, how thrilling the coaster is, and how original the inversion requirements are accomplished.

The construction area is limited, so all track and supports must be kept inside of the boundary at all costs. We would prefer a standard lift hill, but a LIM launch would be fine as long as the pacing is kept up through the inversions. Our budget for this project is 20 million dollars, so the coaster should be no taller than 200 feet or longer than 7000 feet, and should only have one lift or launch

Finished track can be send to the ride manager cjd@muskingum.edu Please let your members know that the deadline is Monday the fifth of December at 11:59 P.M.

Thanks in Advance

Sincerely, the Six Flags New Orleans staff

Six Flags New Orleans
12301 Lake Forest Blvd.
New Orleans, LA 70129
(504)586-8305

Picture of ride area:




Everyone is welcome to join this contest... if you would like to participate, reply to this topic and post your intent to join.

PRIZES:

1st place: Contest medal, 1,000 pts
2nd place: 500 pts
3rd place: 100 pts



DOWNLOAD THE TEMPLATE HERE:
http://www.coastercrazy.com/users/cjd/JazzLand_Contest_Template.zip



THE RULES:

All track, supports, and scenery must be completely contained within the template

The station building must be entirely contained within the area of the template marked by an "X"

The coaster must contain at least 11 inversions (an inversion is only counted if the banking is greater than 155 degrees)

Only 2 of the same inversion can be in sequence (2 corkscrews are fine. 2 corkscrews, loop, corkscrew is fine. 3 barrel rolls or 2 corkscrews, turn, corkscrew are illegal.)

The coaster must contain at least 1 original inversion, and be sure to give it a name. (the inversion must be original... you cannot just give existing elements a new name.)

The coaster type must be Inverted Impulse Coaster

The track must be a complete circuit... no shuttle coasters are allowed

Height must be under 200 ft (60 m), length must be under 7000 ft (2130 m)

Only one lift hill or LIM launch may be used

G Forces must be realistic. The limits are +4.5 vertical, -1.2 airtime, and 1.4 lateral. Each infraction will result in a 1/2 to 1 point deduction from the technical score

Terrain can only be significantly modified for trenches and tunnels, but you are allowed to use 2 truckloads of dirt for landscaping

DEADLINE: Wednesday, December 14 @ 11:59:59 EDT

Send your finished tracks to cjd@muskingum.edu or post them on the exchange with a link to the track in this topic

HAVE FUN! GOOD LUCK!

THE CONTESTANTS:

1. Wing-Over
2. hyyyper
3. harvesterofyoursorrow
4. nightblitz
5. w00tism
6. that one kid
7. Dirk_Ermen
8. Woodie Man
9. screamomatic
10. pdonahue
11. Jakizle
12. coolbeans326
13. IntaminFan397
14. SMer
15. krazyt
16. Jimmy Yoshi
17. Iron Man
18. mezies
19. minicoopertx
20. Mikado
21. jpecool
22. gazag
23. e-man
24. MACchiato
25. RCT-3-Crazy
26. helis1
27. co_2808
28. coasterrickie
29. VGplay
30. muella
31. gouldy
32. Hepta
33. sports_crackpot
34. monami
35. unfortunate_smiley
36. *******
37. videofreak

Green = Recieved Track
Orange = Problem with track file
White = Have Not Recieved Track
Red = Dropped Out
= final track submitted


Questions & Answers

If you have any questions you can post them in this topic. I will answer your question A.S.A.P. Your question and the answer will be posted under this header.

Q: Can I use NL tools to make the track?
A: Yes. All tools are allowed.

Q: Can I submit more than one version of a track?
A: Yes. As long as it is sent through e-mail, you can re-submit as often as you like. But once you post your track on the exchange, it will be accepted as your final design and cannot be re-submitted.

Q: Is the letter from Six Flags real?
A: No, it's not a real letter. It just sets up the scenario for the contest.

Q: Are pre-lift inversions allowed?
A: Yes

Q: Is there a limit on the size/number of the trains?
A: Officially, no. Ride capacity does count for Technical, however.

Q: Does a launch from the station count as the launch?
A: If you are simply using friction wheels or LIMs to dispatch the train from the station to the pre-launch or pre-lift area at low speeds, it will not count as a launch.

Q: Does it count as an original element if it's the first to be used on an inverted coaster?
A: If it hasn't been used on an inverted coaster, it is original. You won't get alot of bonus points for it, but it does technically count.

Q: Can the coaster's trains go outside of the template?
A: Yes. The trains can go outside of the template as long as the track, structure, and scenery stay inside.

Q: Do we get bonus points for having more than 11 inversions?
A: No.

Q: Can the track's supports go over 200 ft?
A: Yes. Only the actual running rails of the track must stay under 200 ft.

Count me in. [approve]
(btw, the picture links aren't working for me)

[hyyyper]

Yay 'nother contest,

i'm in!

one question, though, are prelift inversion allowed?

ahhhh, damn, I would love to take part, but I have another contest going right now. This would be a good chance to improve my inversion skills, and I would already have an original inversion...damn!

is this real??? if it is, are they going to make the ride that wins???

I'm in!

Does a launch from the station count as the one launch?

[hyyyper]

Originally posted by Eric12

is this real??? if it is, are they going to make the ride that wins???

[lol][lol]
if only....

nah to bad, they've got like werner to do things we'll be doing now, the story and letter are just for fun and to give the coaster a background, and not just a plain coaster like the TN contests

Well, Altough i havent posted lots of coasters lately.. and i only have a couple of my first coasters online. I would give it a try .

I like this contest. building coasters for contests just gives the extra boost you need when designing them, and besides that thisone is really original

Count me in. I want to give a shot...I have some pretty twisted ideas already.[:p]

Edit: Is there a car limit? Are we only allowed to have 6 or more?

The coaster type must be Inverted Impulse Coaster

Harsh, i was all up for building a corkscrew coaster

Originally posted by Eric12

is this real??? if it is, are they going to make the ride that wins???

Somebody always has to ask the stupid question....[:o)]

Okay I want to join. Sign me up! Hopefully Ill do better this time then in the past...

Colin C

[Dirk_Ermen]

The coaster type must be Inverted Impulse Coaster

Damn, i don't like to build inverters, But count me in anyway. I'll see what i can create [:)]

Originally posted by hyyyper

Originally posted by Eric12

is this real??? if it is, are they going to make the ride that wins???

[lol][lol]
if only....

nah to bad, they've got like werner to do things we'll be doing now, the story and letter are just for fun and to give the coaster a background, and not just a plain coaster like the TN contests

Well, that stinks. For a second I thought that email was real.

I guess I'll try. But don't expect anything amazing.

count me in[approve]

edit: ............maybe not

editedit: im mean no........ dont count me in

Ok, I started working on a layout, and I've got a question. Does it count as an original element if it's the first to be used on an inverted coaster, so it has different shaping because of the negative heartline value?

Arghh.. the f***** template doesn't work for me. I can never download anything successfully on this site. Wait.. do we even need the template? [?]

[hyyyper]

Originally posted by mkman7432

Arghh.. the f***** template doesn't work for me. I can never download anything successfully on this site. Wait.. do we even need the template? [?]

post your email adres and i'll send you

and yeah, you do need the template, it has the boundries for the track and station, which increases difficulty

Too many Damn limits.. it's called no limits for a reason, I just rebooted my computer so I'll take part, but don't expect anything from me... Woo Hoo!

I'm in.[:D]

i'll try it, cause i need to practice inversions. dont expect anything from me special though, hence i am a beginner

[coolbeans326]

I thought weeweeslap lived in Lynwood!
Anyways, sounds cool, sign me up.

Originally posted by screamomatic

Too many Damn limits.. it's called no limits for a reason, I just rebooted my computer so I'll take part, but don't expect anything from me... Woo Hoo!

This contest is cake compared to the TightFit contest. The template is nice and big, and the only real limit is that it has to have 11 inversions with an original sequence. This is about the exact same type of build scenario that a coaster company goes through... the park scouts them out, lets them know what they're after, and the company designs a coaster to fit it.

BTW, answers to the questions are posted.

[hyyyper]

Originally posted by coolbeans326

I thought weeweeslap lived in Lynwood!
Anyways, sounds cool, sign me up.

he got jacked in compton