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 [...]
Sweepstakes has officially decided, and DTD has confirmed, that 2010 is not going to be the year they break back onto the raceday scene. DTD made its first appearance on the buggy course in recent history in October and got off to a good start. They had their share of incidents, but in the fall [...]
We had to wake up way earlier than alumni normally do for rolls, but it was worth it. The timing system (original post, post 2) works like a charm and we’ve got a good handle on the software now. Click on this picture of Fringe’s new (unamed) buggy crossing the line to see a sample [...]
About a month ago, we announced that Sweepstakes and the Buggy Alumni Association had teamed up to select and fund a new and improved timing system for buggy. We are renting the system for an extended period this year so that we have time to thoroughly test it in the buggy context and make sure [...]
One of the BAA’s biggest goals this year was to use our human and financial resources to improve on the timing system we use in buggy. After all the work that teams put into buggy, there is nothing more important than accurately and reliably recording their time (ok, safety is always more important … blah [...]
With another semester in the history books, it’s time for the BAA to play historian/statistician and make note of a few numbers that sum up the semester. As with the last edition of rolls statistics, the idea is just to document things and to give the orgs and sweepstakes some feedback on how things are [...]
Sweepstakes is making and selling a run of driver-specific tank tops, and they were nice enough to ask if any alumni or other cmubuggy.org readers would like one while the order is going in. Click on the thumbnail to take a look at the full design. On pre-order now for $11 expected to arrive in 2 [...]
Actually, it would probably be a great weekend to roll. When else are we going to have the Secret Service and the US Army helping us keep cars off the course? From what we’ve seen so far, they sure as hell know how to get the job done. There are ten foot high steel crowd [...]
