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ESports?

Workshopshed

I saw that people are competing to use Excel in ESports competitions and it got me thinking, perhaps soldering or PCB layout could be an ESport?

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  • At Hackaday's Supercon, there is an ongoing SMD soldering challenge. (This board isn't the exact one they used, but very similar.) Some people compete to just finish the board and others do it for time advantage. The challenge with a non-in-person event for soldering is that very small changes in equipment can significantly impact results.

    I think, similar to your thought, PCB routing seemed like an option. It'd be easier to nullify unfair advantages, and there is already a huge software-based speed-running community/toolset to leverage.

    So, a couple of years ago, I put together a PCB Routing Speed Run Challenge. (link to Github repo).

    At the time, I was streaming 3 days a week and averaged 50-75 concurrent views (with up to 1,000 views total views per stream.) I'm not boasting about those numbers. I just want to point out that for a couple of weeks, I promoted the idea heavily, demonstrated it multiple times (I think my time was around 1 minute, 19 seconds?), and setup a channel for it on my Discord. People in chat pretended to be enthusiastic about it.

    The good news is that I am currently the world champion of Bald Engineer's PCB Speedrun challenge. But the bad news is that I am also the only person who ever attempted it.

    While I think it would be a fun contest, I failed to find the magic formula to get anyone else interested in it. (I am not saying others shouldn't try to make it happen. I just don't know why my attempt completely failed.)

  • in reply to baldengineer

    maybe a trophy is needed to motivate challengersimage  :-) 

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