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WORLD WIDE WEB - Essence's Model Rocketry Reviews is pleased to announce their fifth annual EMRR Challenge: "The next STAGE to take in rocketry." The Challenge is designed to provide rocketeers with some milestones to achieve throughout the year with the opportunity to win some fantastic prizes.

This year's challenge demonstrates continuous improvement from prior years.

Gold Prize: A PML Thunder ~N~ Lightning.

First, there are many more prizes from EMRR-ware as you move up the levels. Although this, in itself, is worth pursuing the challenge, the real prizes are provided by Public Missiles, Semroc Astronautics, and Squirrel Works. 

Gold Prize:  Public Missiles (PML):  Thunder ~N~ Lightning high-power 2-stage rocket kit

Silver Prize: Semroc Astronautics: set of 5 staged rocket kits plus a $50 Gift Certificate

Bronze Prize: Squirrel Works: set of 2 staged rocket kits

The contest has been designed to allow faster progression toward the various prize levels.  The milestone bonuses from last year are still in place which helps encourage participation and not procrastination. The HIT LIST rocket builds are generated from entrants existing build pile as long as the rocket has not yet been reviewed on EMRR.

For those that are into mid or high power, there is a staging bonus for using only composites in a staged rocket.

Prizes totaling over $1000, simplified criteria, and a focus on staged rockets are sure to get everyone involved.  Sign up today.

But wait, there's more!  Additional bonus prizes are available for those that participate in the 2009 "Design This Spaceship Contest."

EMRR has focused this spaceship challenge on the "Future of Space Travel."  There are six spaceship designs that are better suited to the wide-variety of skill and available supplies that most rocketeers have available to them.

The primary sponsorship comes from Apogee Books who is supplying three copies of the book "Creating Space," by Mat Irvine with the forward by Sir Arthur C. Clarke.  Other prizes include rockets from Red River Rocketry, Art Applewhite Rockets, Sirius Rocketry, Semroc Astronautics, and Model Minutes.

For more information and to sign up, visit EMRR at http://www.rocketreviews.com/ and click on "Contests."

For more information about the sponsors of these two contests visit:

Public Missiles - http://publicmissiles.com/
Semroc Astronautics - http://www.semroc.com/
Squirrel Works - http://www.squirrel-works.com/
Red River Rocketry - http://www.redriverrocketry.com/
Art Applewhite Rockets - http://www.artapplewhite.com/
Sirius Rocketry - http://www.siriusrocketry.com/
SpaceCAD - http://www.spacecad.com/
Model Minutes - http://www.modelminutes.us/

Reader comments:

#1 Re: Article: Essence’s Model Rockets Reviews’ 2009 Challenge

Gotta enter.. This should be FUN!

pantherjon on 01-14-2009 11:56 PM

#2 Re: Article: Essence’s Model Rockets Reviews’ 2009 Challenge

i'm in. normally i try to get all the points, but this year's composite two stager is going to be a real challenge for me.

Gillard on 01-16-2009 03:01 PM

#3 Re: Article: Essence’s Model Rockets Reviews’ 2009 Challenge

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i'm in. normally i try to get all the points, but this year's composite two stager is going to be a real challenge for me.

Get an Aerobee Hi from Cosmodrome....mpr (29-29) two stager. Very cool kit!

Loopy on 01-16-2009 03:58 PM

#4 Re: Article: Essence’s Model Rockets Reviews’ 2009 Challenge

Not only is the Cosmodrome Aerobee Hi a great kit, it is challenging and will teach most people quite a bit. It would just barely qualify for MPR though. It has to be boosted on a good sized G (G80, G77, etc).

-Aaron

heada on 01-16-2009 04:44 PM

#5 Re: Article: Essence’s Model Rockets Reviews’ 2009 Challenge

for the EMRR challenge, you have to design and build the rocket from scratch.

Gillard on 01-17-2009 06:56 AM

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