Rolls will be Sunday-only this weekend in observance of Halloween parties. Saturday is the better day to miss for the weekend because Sunday is the first day without Daylight Savings time which robs us of an hour of rolls each morning. So don’t forget to set your clock back, and then also set it to wake up earlier. Roads close at 6:20, first roll will be Spirit at 6:40.
Thanks for a successful kickoff
Now that everyone has had time to travel home and get back to reality, we wanted to thank everyone who came and made the Buggy Alumni Association’s kickoff weekend a really big success. It definitely felt more like carnival than homecoming seeing so many buggy folks around campus. We’ve only officially existed for a couple of months, and I think we’ve got a lot of momentum. Some stats to make the point:
- We’ve now got over 100 buggy alumni registered here on the website.
- 7 people have registered as dues-paying-members through the website, and many more did so this weekend in person. Those numbers are still being tallied
- Our history database already has information on 1,592 people and 196 buggies plus many data contributions that we haven’t had time to add to the database yet.
- The website has had over 1,600 visits from more than 800 people in just 2 weeks
So check out the pictures from Homecoming and let us know in the forums what you’d like to see happen at Carnival. We can’t wait to see everyone back again.
Freeroll Practice 10/25-26/2008
Oct 25: Rolls canceled due to rain. The Homecoming Events continued (Saturday Events Gallery).
Oct 26: Eleven orgs and quite a few alumni were present at freerolls on Sunday.
Rolling Orgs: SAE, AEPi, SigNu, PiKA, SDC, Fringe, PhiKap, SigEp, CIA, Spirit, KDR
Number of Buggies: four for SDC and Fringe, three for CIA, SigNu, and PiKA, and two for KDR. (This information was not recorded during rolls, so may be innacurate.)
Not rolling: Beta had an off-campus party on Saturday night, either for Homecoming or because they can’t party next week due to an away game. Pioneers has not yet qualified a buggy for rolls.
CMUtv was filming rolls. They are definitely starting early.
Rolls were slightly delayed as Hills 4 and 5 were swept of leaves again. Sweepers also worked on the backhills between rolls later in the morning. The orgs got through the roll order about 2 and a half times.
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Freeroll Practice, 10/19/08
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Pioneers did not roll today because didn’t pass capes. Driver/chair Vincent Zeng, former CIA chair and driver, tipped over in Keres during a cape attempt and the pushbar broke. We wish them luck and hope to seem them out soon.
With most teams scratched for Mid-Semester break, today’s freerolls seemed destined for chaos and anarchy. However, with Sweepstakes chair Andrew Hundt’s good foresight and a lot of cooperation from the teams, the day went smoothly. An interim assistant chair was appointed for the weekend to help with Sweepstakes duties. Alumni were solicited for barricade duty, but it wasn’t necessary in the end because non-rolling teams came out to do their chores.
Six teams rolled, seven scratched, and “rollarounds” were allowed. In theory this means that a team completing their freeroll has the option to roll again from the top of Hill 2 if the following team scratches. In reality, it meant that some teams just rolled whenever there was a gap. Here’s the breakdown.
Click on buggy names for info and a picture.
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Homecoming 08 Events!
The Buggy Alumni Association is holding its first ever events this homecoming and if you know buggy, you’re going to want to be there. People are flying in from around the country to kick things off, there are even buggies coming in from out of town.
Here’s the event lineup:
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RSS feeds added
We know, it’s tough. You don’t want to miss anything going on here, but you can’t be checking all parts of the site for new activity every 10 minutes. RSS to the rescue.
The way we’ve set it up is that you can subscribe to any of the sections of the site, or to the one “ultimate” feed which merges the other feeds.
The Ultimate Feed (forum + gallery + news + news comments)
Forum Posts
Gallery Uploads
News Posts
Comments on News Posts
I would of course recommend the Ultimate
Proposed rule changes, take 2
After discussing the rules amendments at the Sweepstakes meeting, the following has developed as v2. It looks like it will be put to vote next week. The big differences are that instead of increasing fines for chores violations, the fines will be transfered to the account of the org that covers the chores. So, as in last weekend, CIA’s drivers would have earned the team a free day of bagels and juice.
Second thing is that the fall sweepstakes meeting would be held at least one week earlier, but not necessarily the week after races. Discuss it *here*!
Full text of the rule proposals:
Two proposed rule changes
Sweepstakes proposed two rule changes at yesterday’s meeting, one of which is pretty interesting.
A modification to rule 3.4.1 “Fines” would add this:
Any fines imposed due to a failure to complete assigned chores will double on each consecutive day of Freeroll Practice that they are not completed. On any weekend that chores are completed, the dollar amount for any additional fines will be reset to their original value.
A modification to rule 3.3.3 “Initial Organizational Meeting” would now read like this:
One week after the sweepstakes races conclude, the departing Sweepstakes Committee is required to hold Chairmenʼs meetings. The purpose of these meetings is to elect a Sweepstakes Chairman, an Assistant Sweepstakes Chairman, and a Safety Chairman for the next school year. Should a new Committee fail to be elected, an organizational meeting of the Sweepstakes Committee shall be held before September 15th each school year.
The first one is just trying to coerce those slacking teams to pull their weight and keep things running smoothly. If it works, great.
The second one is interesting. The committees have been coming together more slowly in recent years as nominations to the positions have been more scarce. This puts the committee in a tough situation of trying to get rolls started on very short notice.
I wasn’t at the meeting, so I don’t know what was said already, but perhaps someone that was there will fill everyone else in?
Discuss it over here in the Forum
Buggy Portraits feature added
I have just added a new album in the gallery called Buggy Portraits
We can now link pictures from this album to the profile of each buggy so that we can put a face with the name in the history section. Currently the album has 46 pictures which means we’re missing pictures for 142 of the 188 buggies currently in the database. If you have a good picture of a missing buggy, please add it to the album, and we’ll have it linked up asap.
[Ed Note: Updated to be a working link to a modern version of the same thing as of September 2023 — we also now are missing photos of only 19 of 563 buggies, as of this writing.]
First day of freerolls
It was an exciting morning as ten teams turned out for the first day of freeroll practice. The sun was shining, buggies were bagged and lots of new drivers took the wheel to kick off the ’08-’09 season. The Sweepstakes committee did a great job of getting things moving and keeping the momentum through the morning. Here’s how the teams faired:
Pioneers, and Beta did not roll. CIA did Beta’s chores for the day, and the Phipps barricades were guarded by three of CIA’s six drivers.
KDR had a very short first day on the course, hitting the curb near transition after being the first buggy to roll for the year. They scratched the rest of the day.
SAE/Kappa: This combo team of SAE and Kappa Kappa Gamma brings back SAE’s late 90s buggy, Rubicon, and gives Kappa’s sisters a little more refined machine than Ursula. First roll, hatch dragged through the chute. Second roll, the driver lost visibility and made a beeline for the monument, nearly hitting it before making a sharp right turn towards the curb and stopping just in time.
AEPi: Big attendance, two buggies (Zephyrus and Camo).
SigNu: The Zoo rolled King of Spades, Tenth Commandment, and Skua. A memorable hill 5 was pushed by this guy:
