In April Google held the first ever Google Games! The first games were ofcourse held at UIUC :) Kevin sent me and and a couple of guys from Daniels hall an email asking us whether we would be interested in forming a team and participating in the contest. Enough of us were interested and we formed our team "4 Normal Guys and the Nerd"!! It was a very diverse team consisting of Kevin (ECE PhD), Dimitris (Math PhD), Jessie (Math PhD), Lothar (Physics Grad) and me! There were three sections in the contest puzzles, wii athletics and a lego bridge building contest. We dominated the puzzle section and were the only team to solve all the puzzles! We were average in the wii athletics section and ended up 5th! The lego bridge building section was a lot of fun and we surprisingly managed to do pretty well due to a very clever design decision! Overall we ended up 2nd losing out by a whisker to "Legs Are Just Wheels with No Rims and Only One Spoke"! We received a sweatshirt, sweatband, lego watch and t-shirt for our efforts! We had a lot of fun during the games and will definitely do it again next year even though we will unfortunately be missing Lothar! Here are some pics from the games:
Doing the team dance at the opening ceremony!
Our team sign
Building the bridge! Lothar et al came up with the cleverest idea for the main columns!
Our bridge! The other teams did not appretiate the Google sign! So the judges did not consider it for the best looking section :(
Starting to load the bridge for the strongest bridge section
Our bridge remains unbroken even as the covering plates fall off!
At the closing/awards ceremony
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