Quote Originally Posted by Director Abbie View Post
Me too! They had to be made from toothpicks and glued at the tips with elmer's glue. Other people had elaborate curved bridges and such. Mostly using square toothpicks. But I had my older brother do the math and he figured the round ones to be 1.5x as strong, so I made sure to use those. Also I knew that triangles are the strongest shape, so I made mine entirely from triangles.
Mine did twice as good as second place before breaking in half. I still have half.
The sad part is that I went first, and I took so long adding weight that the camera people didn't get a chance to photograph anyone else.
My husband was the last one to go, I think, or near the last. So they didn't get a shot of when it broke. Though he said a piece of it went flying high over into a second-story balcony. He still has his pieces, too. Would you like me to try to find a photograph of it (before it broke)?