Building the WORLD'S LARGEST TREBUCHET competing in the Poly Bridge Olympics!

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

A huge thank you to Mason and Palfly of the Poly Bridge community for making these fantastic levels and judging them too, legends! Also check my description for links to the other competitors videos and for the level codes to play yourself, I'll update these when available!

[@Wheelz_187]

At least you ranked in the top 6 consistently, congrats buddy!

[@captainsnekk]

Whens powerwhasing simulator

[@austindeal2860]

Dude, I loved watching this. I feel like watching you build even though you came in last was a learning experience and watching you analyze other people’s builds too was awesome! Probably being a real engineer means you don’t consider ideas that wouldn’t work in real life even tho they would work in this game.

[@DurpyDino]

Aliens rock actually made a higher shot put throw and would have gone like 250m but he put in the one that was worse so he probably would have won the second round

[@darkflames1284]

Play Cockroach Simulator 🪳🪳🪳

[@whatisanewt7552]

I love how the two bottom contestants was a real civil engineer and the literal developer of the game

[@mr.p1759]

None of the developers are good at their own game

[@GraveUypo]

@@mr.p1759 that's not really true.

[@Idiomatick]

None of the devs on dead cells can beat the game's hard modes.

[@spordlospardle7828]

@@mr.p1759 ever played Mario kart ds?

[@stevencowan37]

Fun fact: the team that developed some of Konami's hardest games in the NES/SNES era had a rule that before a boss could be included in a game, the designer of the fight had to beat the boss without taking any damage.

[@nosc0pe]

The only superior siege weapon to the trebuchet is a phallus shaped trebuchet

[@outcast170]

.... .... Acknowledging this fact, leaves me wondering if it would still hold true against the inhabitants of an actual medieval castle. Who of medieval expertise would consider said question seriously? As serious as the question is at least.

[@raycegumpxx2209]

Good profile pic

[@steirqwe7956]

@@outcast170 If we consider bombards to be a "phallus shaped trebuchets" (and they are pretty phallic in appearance ngl) this statement is 100% at point.

[@BarryTGash]

The "Phalluchet" - sounds almost poetic.

[@realname4625]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that he was using a superior machine but giving the credit to an inferior one

[@ReidCaptain]

Dude I loved your builds! Thanks for inviting me on :)

[@nickisnichdick]

Do you need more clicks or sum, you even comment on aliensrock

[@Madsun262]

Reid i watch your channel and i want to know if your working on saving your kerbals

[@Madsun262]

And you did better than him because you did a preparing thing beforehand

[@GlassOfVitto]

Hi Reid, not watching ur channel a lot but awesome

[@GlassOfVitto]

Vid*

[@matthewtalbot-paine7977]

First we lose the football and then we come last in the polylympics. What a time to be English.

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

I didn't come last, I did as well as the developer of the game!! 😂 I'm like a politician in my wording these days 😅

[@matthewtalbot-paine7977]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming We'll have to see if we can convince spiff to play next time he's no engineer but you can bet your bottom dollar he'll find some way to break the game.

[@matthewtalbot-paine7977]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming You could for sure argue that you came in 4th and you can say "I came 4th in the world"

[@josephdedrick9337]

@@matthewtalbot-paine7977 polybridge is perfectly balenced and has no exploits...

[@dapperbrick7516]

@@josephdedrick9337 Tell Eunice that lol

[@matthewlui1004]

My experience of designing stuff is the same as this video. "My design has such ingenuity." *Other people show their work* "I'm an idiot."

[@d.natrop4495]

I feel ya :D

[@Hex...]

You're telling me a real engineer and the game's developer did the worst....

[@HaveANiceDayLol.]

Years of academy training wasted!

[@BryanFritchie]

TIED for worst. 😁

[@The_Rising_Dragon]

As a game developer and a CompSci Engineer, yeah it checks out...

[@HO1ySh33t]

They're not trained for unlimited budget.

[@Maxwelliouss]

that makes sense

[@Dispariabooks]

Here's how the placing should go: Gold, Silver, Bronze, Engineer, Average Human, Architect ;)

[@ScottFreee3]

Hey!!! Me thinks the architect came higher up the leaderboard then the engineer 💪

[@burnttoast5372]

@@ScottFreee3 oh God

[@yue7507]

How to start a war in the comments section:

[@Dispariabooks]

@@ScottFreee3 I meant that those are the titles of the places themselves, so last place is always an architect. Thankfully he tied for fifth 😅

[@chrismanuel9768]

That feel when engineer came in architect and architect came in engineer. Wait. That sounds like something completely different.

[@Ratok1]

I would love to see a version of this where the distances are infinite and there's no time limit. Scores would be given comparing cost vs. distance. Think that could lead to some incredible results.

[@masonator__]

Sadly, sandbox levels have a max size, and even if you were to move things outside of the normal boundaries, there's a physics border where all moving objects will cease to have their physics calculated.

[@cuboembaralhado8294]

@@masonator__ so, just enlarged limits?

[@Francisco_Yan]

I said to my parents that when I grow up I wanna be a Civil Engineer and they loved the idea! Thank you for making my day and giving me a smile! Greetings from Argentina!

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Nice, hello Argentina!

[@danthiel8623]

Very good!

[@GlaciesYin]

I think what I realise from this is that maybe non-engineers might do a better job at this engineering game simply because they're not concerned about engineering rules and physics and stuff.

[@stephaanjacques2269]

Engineering conventions are a blessing and a curse.

[@lenaotaku5905]

Yes. Gamers just can abuse the game without logical building.

[@lifelonglearner1863]

do read book: Range. How non-domain experts helps more than domain.

[@CCABPSacsach]

It’s like a bell curve: 1. “don’t care much about physics and stuff” 2. “No, care ALOT about physics and stuff!” 3. “It’s poly bridge. Let’s cheese it.”

[@grubygrzib6308]

It once again shows how amazing Poly Bridge player Argiln is.

[@awakener17]

I saw Poly Bridge Olympics, I clicked to see how you stacked up to Aliensrock and seeing everyone’s results and how the guy I was rooting for tied for second? It gave me a big smile.

[@notyourbusiness7368]

Damn 2021just isn’t the year of England.

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

😢

[@ManpasTheBreathingHuman]

Will the green ducks do bad as well?

[@derais_music]

It is never the year for England.

[@NoahNixon-vy9if]

@@derais_music from 2022 it is true

[@Zorgdub]

In the shotput event, the real deciding factor was accuracy, because they could all throw the weight farther than the level could handle.

[@masonator__]

Glad you enjoyed, I loved making my levels and helping out!

[@silksongreactions]

“Hopefully the arch holds” *has unbreakable on*

[@erinwade4145]

The engineer and the dev getting joint last is absolutely hilarious.

[@matthewtalbot-paine7977]

The rings of the olympics represent different continents. My keys have more rings than your Olympic rings should have.

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

😂 I did try and get others, easier said than done it turns out!

[@matthewtalbot-paine7977]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming Yes I've tried organising things before. Not sure there's a lot of popular African youtubers playing poly bridge regularly.

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Plus this was the final, the other continents didn't do too well in the qualifying stages... yes, that's the one...

[@Egerit100]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming how many others were there?

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

@@Egerit100 err, just shy of a thousand. So those saying I came last are so so wrong, I'm in the top 0.1%!

[@khalick4731]

LETS GOOOO BRIDGE BUILDING. BEEN LONG SINCE A BRIDGE BUILDING!! 1 week is long for me :)

[@brandongriest44]

I really loved seeing the different designs despite the outcomes. The approaches were wonderful to see! The different way people go about situations is always facinating to me

[@Monte_Carlo451]

The narrator should be a youtuber or something

[@DoggosGames]

Could fit with a better voice. Sounds like he's got a peg on his nose!

[@patrickschardt7724]

This is is great. RCE you consistently make great and different content

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Cheers Patrick, always appreciate your comments!

[@sol_in.victus]

This video should be called an engineer looses an engineering game tournament against regular people 😭

[@zhewaxen3047]

not sure if Arglin counts as "regular people"

[@squeak2455]

Aliensrock was going to University for some sort of Engineering too, not sure if he graduated or not and I doubt it was Civil Engineering, but there are similar concepts across all engineering disciplines.

[@DaCouchWarrior]

True

[@Zebo12345678]

@@squeak2455 He was going to university for engineering? Since when? It's the first I've heard of it anyway. Have you seen his earlier polybridge videos? When he first started he was so bad it was laughable. To see him now is like night and day.

[@confusedbiscuit9053]

yooo arglin with the pan flag poggg

[@rtyyyyb]

RCE: Weight cannot be mot than $12000 Arglin: we were supposed to use weight?

[@wadball]

Scott's trebuchet may not have gone as far but he NAILED that cabin!

[@aiporia1284]

Next time we need EUNICE repping Japan. Id imagine even Arglin would be nervous of having to go up against him though XD

[@ArglinPB]

If he eventually returns to being on good terms with the Poly Bridge community then sure, we'll gladly add him in, haha. Or well, I wouldn't I'd be utterly terrifi- ahem I mean slightly 'perturbed' by his skill level. :p

[@magica3526]

@@ArglinPB polybridge drama??

[@aiporia1284]

@@magica3526 this is news to me lol

[@aiporia1284]

@@ArglinPB is this public knowledge and I’m just out of the loop or is something happening behind the scene?

[@MrUnshield]

@@aiporia1284 I didn’t followed anything but isn’t it because he uses glitches to complete levels and some people don’t really like that?

[@retired-s5h]

I love how everyone comments "I love how the last two places are a real civil engineer and the developer of the game"

[@ProfessorPurple]

Jeeez just finished alienrocks video and coke straight here to find out it was just uploaded

[@bluemaster75]

You finished aliensrock's video and coke?

[@ProfessorPurple]

@@bluemaster75 my phone has managed to automatically change come to coke 😭

[@bluemaster75]

@@ProfessorPurple Well that sucks, and I'll just not ask for a reason. Have a nice day though.

[@ItsAuntNiNi]

I love this and think you guys should 100% make more! but do like really weird ones. Like who can make the cheapest bridge, a bridge using the weakest material, reverse long jump (so like who can get a car moving forward to move backwards lol)

[@SidneyPatrickson]

Not much of a bridge builder but the drainage is top!

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

No flooding in my solutions!

[@AngelboyVR]

Arglin, representing pure proudness, showing the world what furries are capable off, rock on

[@ZydraTheFox]

Yep, I am so proud of them :3

[@katqcentertainment8754]

HE WON LETS GOO POWER TO SERGALS

[@kh6853]

To be fair, the steel in this game is as strong as real-life Styrofoam, so there are major differences.

[@aarontelander]

So many representatives from the USA, it’s basically the “World” Series 😂😂😂

[@nomekop777]

For the 2nd one, calculate the cost/m per unit mass, and use that. Then attach the weight to a rope, and drop it from above the end of the rod. Since unbreakable parts are on, it'll build up some great speed due to acceleration, which can then be transferred into the boulder. I'll bet accelerating weights on an unbreakable rope is what scores the most points

[@masonator__]

Yep, that's how my dev test design worked!

[@LiarraSniffles_X3]

Sad there weren't more faithful (to the game) style levels, though the ones you guys did do were all cool. (Stuff like, why was there no budget based level, or more actual bridges in general.) Since I want to be constructive, here's ten quickfire idea's for 2022's polylimpics that are closer to real polybridge levels: 1: A bridge that has to carry a medium/heavy (optionally with a boat crossing that goes to build height limit to prevent wood rope bridges) car across a large span with only 2 anchor points (one at each end.) Can't go wrong with the classics. 2: A bridge that has to get 3 cars to 3 different heights in ascending order with only 1 hydraulic. 3: A bridge that can survive a boat crossing without any moving parts (so likely a jump or something for the car/s.) 4: A bridge that can handle a boat crossing then loop-de-loop a fast car afterwards. 5: An 8 road piece distance bridge but you only have 4 road pieces. 6: Similar to the above, a bridge with only one road piece and no springs. (classic cable car/crane/swing designs and such.) 7: A bridge with only one anchor point situated in the water below, but the car pauses in the middle of the bridge and a boat crosses on the left (behind the car.) 8: A bridge that can get two cars to their stars, one far under and one far above, but both cars start on the left at the same time. 9: A bridge that only uses rope and 2 steel pieces but the car is super heavy. 10: A Bridge that uses at least 6 of every item type, but you can only use 6 of every item type. These would all be scored by budget or peak stress depending on the level. Or both. (so you'd get 1 point out of 10 for every 10% below 100% stress, and 1 point per $1,000 under budget.) What do you think, any fun sounding ideas in that lot?

[@stephaanjacques2269]

somewhat surprised this hasn't gotten any attention. I think your suggestions are really good (at the very least as starting points)

[@masonator__]

We mainly tried to make levels themed around actual Olympic events, but with a poly bridge twist on them. Also, there unfortunately won't be another polylympics anytime soon (or at least, not one hosted by RCE) :(

[@appull]

For the trebuchet unbreakable was on but his engineer side still made him reinforce XD 😂

[@lakumetiz283]

It's not about the destination it's about the journey!

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

This is what I say as I cry myself to sleep 😅

[@drjoofy5844]

hey man i've been watching your stuff for a few weeks now -- just have to say that the extra effort put into graphics/visuals/editing in this video absolutely CRUSHED it. Much love.

[@astitva5002]

it's CRIMINAL how entertaining this channel is

[@jman11q94]

What I've learned about this is Trusses and Muscles are the way to go

[@pronoe]

This was very entertaining to watch. Congrats to everyone and to the person who came up with this idea and those maps. That was brilliant!

[@masonator__]

Thank you!

[@UofU10]

That was a joy to watch

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Glad you enjoyed mate, been a while since I've seen you comment!

[@UofU10]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming Life’s been busy man, I definitely didn’t spend 14 minutes at work to watch this (gotta love 2x speed). I need to catch up on your infra series! Regardless, and as always, love the content. Peace, love, and bridges! ✌🏻

[@suncust]

This was really fun to watch, hope theres gonna be more!

[@RealPanzer999]

Yeah, more would be great.

[@EEVEEwolf1]

"I didnt understand how much better a trebuchet was then a catapult"

[@Smilley85]

Unbreakable ropes help quite a bit. IRL, trebuchets were always limited by the weight capacity of the ropes. That's why they were used with more specialized munitions: Greek fire or plague corpses. Yes, biological warfare was very much a thing in medieval times.

[@evanshamblin8265]

I just can't with that voice man it makes me wanna cry

[@Aptol]

1, Reid Captain Is Very Good At Logistics. 2, Play Smart City Plan To Be A Real Civil Engineer.

[@duythuchoang5095]

Damn, big collab, nice

[@YeenMage]

Because furries are good artists and many of us have a good sense of geometry? Congrat Arglin.

[@codyheiner3636]

Wow Arglin's seesaw high jump design was sick!

[@shawndinterman2219]

Fair play on giving the other player their well deserved "fair play's" through out the video

[@Small_Panda]

Would love you see this kind of challenge again.

[@ctcdreamer]

Engineers worry about breaking the bridge. Gamers worry about breaking the game. So long as it passes, it doesn’t matter to the gamer whether or not it breaks. It’s inconceivable for an engineer to build a bridge that breaks. It goes against literally the foundation of what you believe. Keeping that in mind, makes your videos doubly hilarious.

[@tabascobobcat]

Competitions like this should be more popular

[@stellato6770]

We should get another Olympics episode. Very fun.

[@mpdavis731]

Catch is that Arglin is an ARCHITECT!

[@AIGOC]

This video melted my heart. I have got good childhood vibes.

[@oliverchen4855]

I don't know anything about that commentator, but I bet he's super handsome and a great engineer.

[@mith3620]

Im done... how can their builds be so innovative and creative while yours look like something anyone can make.

[@tomzitiger]

Its good that its called polylympics and not polympics. Because polympics is a big event in the game polytopia

[@DeadDevilTeemo]

SCRAP MECHANIC. That THe Future game for you. Wanna See you do that

[@Del640]

More like Real Insane Civil Engineer! … RICE!!

[@ApocGenesis]

I enjoyed this more than the actual olympics

[@derekdrake8706]

I've seen Arglins minecraft builds, the guy is a mad genius, I'm betting he'll win.

[@Guest-qm8mi]

25:58 the limousine is being dragged to the deptha of hell

[@alexmiller3349]

That's why they say that sometimes you need to unlearn

[@gergo20576T]

i would absolutely love content similar to this

[@ibemper1850]

for the long throw, making a short effort arm is better since in levers, velocity ratio is distance of load arm by distance of effort arm, for smaller values, you can get big speed

[@wwerty234]

We need a poly 3 video like this. This is beyond amazing lol

[@aidanwisey8951]

14:09 is so trippy

[@cathsaigh2197]

A spring powered trebuchet would be best of both worlds.

[@CrashperM]

Big brain scott getting that p4

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

There is an ongoing doping allegation fyi

[@CrashperM]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming I totally wasn't involved in that. Couldn't be me

[@ScottFreee3]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming Hey RCE.....Thought we sorted this with a brown envelope $$$ =)

[@jbp9653]

I don't know why but I never new that I would find peace in watching your content, love it

[@HeindsAG]

I thought he said Paralympics 💀💀 but when he said “high jump” I was confused

[@sienile]

From the thumbnail alone, I knew what the video was about and who it was by. Mighty strong looking crane you got there.

[@spencer4679]

I really appreciate that poly Olympics logo

[@Knuwl5678]

This was really fun to watch, should do more of these competitions

[@uncoolbob9653]

USA had a strong showing this year

[@MrLinkDay]

Yea, Arglin seems to be the REAL engineer.

[@Feintgames]

This was pretty great. Real drama with the events

[@Refwah]

Every RCE PolyBridge video: "I always forget to use springs. I should remember to use springs"

[@outcast170]

Considering there was a rule on the size of useable weights, but nothing restricting the use or cost of spring power.... That event was rigged horribly. The rest were great, despite such a blemish on the entire competition.

[@masonator__]

...thanks, I guess. It's not like we tried to rig it or anything, it was just an oversight.

[@NicholasMa42]

Seems like you could just count springs as weights for the cost limitation

[@LexusLFA554]

I probably would have gone with a slingshot device for the Catapult. Put massive tension on, then release.

[@enfynet]

I like how the limo weight level is like the spaghetti or popsicle sick bridges we made as kids.

[@rohitgoyal7258]

Arglin is a hell of a beast ngl

[@UnknownZYX_4085]

REID SO BRUTAL IN THE SPRING STUFF

[@nakoda1610]

Came from aliensrocks vid Both of u guys are two of my favorite youtubers/streamers

[@strydyrhellzrydyr1345]

I bet Scott free did so well because he streamed it... just being honest... think how many brains he had helping him

[@redbaron3555]

We need more Polylympics!!!

[@cavemaneca]

At least you didn't get 6th place

[@jonbonjesus1224]

I'd love to see more of these

[@golfalpha284]

That why I laugh whenever I hear “Trust me I’m an engineer”

[@shawndinterman2219]

Great video idea chap mate eh absolutely went bonkers an mental watching it. Fair play to ya

[@turgutkilvan]

Huge fun of Polympics from Turkey!

[@frissonv9967]

can't wait for the next polympics!

[@TyrantTommy]

finally broke down to buy the damn game, watching all the videos always makes me want to play...

[@enaithe1952]

Hi, I think it would be really cool if you you could maybe do lessons or explanation videos. You don't have to but I just think it would be really nice to have a cool way to learn about engineering

[@franciscodecarvalho2366]

The voice acting only gets better

[@zippita11]

That was so fun to watch.

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Glad you enjoyed, nice hard hat!