Should do it ancient greek/time traveller style: Once the competition starts you aren’t allowed to use anything you didn’t find in nature or make yourself, including the clothes you wear.
The problem with that is the main limitation would be which ores and other materials you had on hand, rather than your technical prowess. Most of the event would be about prospecting rather than building stuff. Which might be truer to how progress actually goes, but less true to what the event is aiming for. And it would take many times longer.
OK fair. Can we still make them be naked?
Or what if we only let them rely on modern sources for things that they could realistically get with something they’ve already built? So like no ores until you have developed what’s needed for mining etc., but once you have you don’t have to mine it yourself?
This sounds fun, but I’ve been in the Bay Area too long, so I read “advance up the tech ladder” as founding a startup and getting acqui-hired and becoming a VP at Google or something.
I think that would also be a fun extreme sport to watch, and I think people should still have to start naked.
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