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Scrapheap Challenge is an engineering game show produced by RDF Media and broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. In the show, teams of contestants had 10 hours in which to build a working machine that could do a specific task, using materials available in a scrapheap. The format was exported to the United States, where it was known as Junkyard Wars. The US show was also produced by RDF Media, and was originally shown on The Learning Channel. Repeats have aired on another Discovery network, the Science Channel.
Episode 14 : Rusty Awards
January. 01,0001
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Episode 13 : Christmas Special: Scrapheap Mega Challenge: All-Terrain Marathon
December. 23,2001
The mega challenge is to build a hybrid machine to face a two-day triathlon. Stage one is flat out on the salt-flats. Stage two is in a canyon littered with giant boulders. And stage three is on a lake: yes, we're talking amphibious vehicles. The winner of each stage collects three points, the runner-up two and the third-placed team one. The team with the most points at the end of the third stage will be the mega champions.
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Episode 12 : Grand Final: Car Jousting
November. 25,2001
The champions' challenge is to take an ordinary car and convert it into a radio-controlled fighting machine. In the contest, points are scored for hitting targets on the opposing machine: 10 for a sideswipe, 20 for a rear-ender and 30 for hammering the roof. If a machine strays outside the ring, it gives away 50 points to the other side. The team with the highest total score after three rounds wins.
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Episode 11 : Final: Hydrofoil
November. 18,2001
The ultimate challenge in this series is to build a hydrofoil a boat with wing-like structures underneath its hull to lift the hull out of the water at speed. The team with the fastest single time out of three heats over an eighth of a mile takes the trophy.
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Episode 7 : Mobile Crane
October. 21,2001
This challenge is to build mobile cranes to lift and carry scrap down a course to a drop-off point. Each piece of scrap is allocated a points value relating to its weight or awkwardness. The team that accumulates the most points over two 15-minute rounds is the winner.
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Episode 6 : Snowmobile
October. 14,2001
The challenge is to build a one-man snowmobile. The test course, in the Mammoth Mountains, northern California, is circular with a 300-metre diameter. Each team has 10 minutes; the winner is the team whose snowmobile covers the most ground. In the event of breakdown, they'll be allowed to do repairs and restart twice.
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Episode 5 : White Water Rider
October. 07,2001
The challenge is to build a powered craft to negotiate a stretch of white-water river. The craft must be powerful enough to get up the rapids but also have enough manoeuvrability to avoid treacherous rocks and to make a U-turn at the top of the course. Whoever sets the fastest single time in the course of three heats is the winner.
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Episode 4 : Street Cleaner
September. 30,2001
The teams have to build a four-man machine to clean up litter. Different kinds of rubbish (such as old cans, plastic bottles, newspapers, cardboard, old clothes and bin liners) will be spread over an area 50x50m and the teams will have half an hour to pick up as much as they can. When time is called, the winning team will be the one with the heaviest load of litter.
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Episode 2 : Monster Truck
September. 16,2001
The challenge for the second heat is to build a 'monster truck' and drive it around an 'S'-shaped course in a dirt oval. The trucks will have to climb dirt hillocks and crush a line of cars before accelerating home. Each team is allowed three runs: the winner is the one that sets the fastest time.
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