Assuming there’s no blizzard (none on the horizon), enough teams get capes done (they are scheduling now), and the weather stays mild (current forecast: partly cloudy and low 30′s), we could be 5 days from starting another season of spring freerolls! To set the mood, I’ve included a slightly obfuscated picture from exactly 8 years [...]
It’s that time of year again at the corner of Tech and Frew. The permits are in and this Sunday the 18th is the first potential day of rolls. The chairmen have been meeting for weeks, the drivers have had their meetings, and at least a few teams have their capes taken care of. Currently [...]
Aw crap. It was announced this afternoon that PiKA’s charter has been revoked by the school CMU chapter will not be recognized for at least four years. Losing PiKA from campus is obviously a huge loss to the greek community and to the broader social community at CMU in which they played a consistently central role. [...]
Letting Sam take a well-deserved break from running the site, I thought I’d update everyone with the results from last night’s Sweepstakes Committee election. Winners in bold along with their org and their class as of next year. Chairman Anthony Pacella (SigEp, Senior) Jeff Bouton (PiKA, Junior) Ass Chair Kevin Jang (KapSig, Senior) Jeff Bouton [...]
Sweepstakes has decided to spare everyone a few soggy hours in the rain and cancel Saturday’s races now. With 100% chance of rain for every relevant hour and a huge mass of green on the radar, it was definitely the sane call to make. That means that today’s prelim results are final, and Fringe [...]
I hope you either made it out this morning or followed along online, because prelims 2011 were a fine day of racing. Luckily, some fine folks in the forums summarized the day’s events, so I’ll skip that and get to the details. The full official results are here on our leaderboard: http://cmubuggy.org/raceday/leaderboard The schedule for [...]
Push practice was scheduled to start this week, but just as teams were charging up their flashlight batteries and telling their new drivers that it’s “actually kind of fun,” Sweepstakes had to put a hold on things. Apparently, the city has decided to take a closer look at the late night road-closing permits this year [...]
Sweepstakes has been on their game since they were elected last spring, the chairmen have met, the drivers have had their meeting, the chores have been assigned, and I am way behind on keeping you up to date. To make up some time, I’m going to revisit a couple of posts from last fall. First [...]
Both of these elections actually happened a few weeks ago, but they deserve to be officially announced and introduced. The 2011 Sweepstakes Committee is Chairman – Chris Shellhamer (Jr., 2010 Assistant Chair, PiKA) Assistant Chairman – Janice Chen (Sr., Head Driver, AEPi) Safety Chair – Fritz Langford (Sr., Chairman, SigEp) and the 2011 Buggy Alumni [...]
55 teams will contest this year’s men’s and women’s races, up 5 from last year. That’s what we like to see. Mission #3 of the buggy alumni association coming up spades. Even though we’re up 5 teams, there will be only 19 heats which is 6 fewer than last year. The trick is that since [...]
