If you haven’t already heard, the Buggy Alumni Association will be auctioning off the chance to ride in the lead truck on raceday for each and every heat. What was previously only the territory of Head Judges and cameramen can now be yours. In exchange for a charitable contribution to the Buggy Alumni Association, you can see the entire heat of your choice first hand.
The details of the auction go like this:
- General
- All heats will be auctioned simultaneously
- The bidding will start at 9am EDT Friday April 10th
- Bidding will end at 10pm EDT Monday April 13th
- Each heat will have a $10 minimum bid
- The minimum bidding increment is $1
- You may specify a maximum amount you wish to bid for any heat. The site will automatically increase your bid in $2 increments as needed until your maximum is exceeded by someone else.
- Prelim Heat specifics
- If any person wins the auctions for more than one heat, they will have the option of retracting their winning bids for all but the highest priced heat. If they decide to withdraw their winning bid for one of the lower priced heats, the 2nd highest bidder will become the winner.
- Finals Heat specifics
- Because the specifics of the finals heats are unknown, bidders will be bidding for the right to have first pick of the finals heats. Runners up will have 2nd, 3rd pick, etc.
- There will be only two things to bid on for finals: Men’s Finals and Women’s Finals
- The top 5 bidders for the Men’s Finals will have the opportunity to select a heat in order of their bids
- The top 3 bidders for the Women’s Finals will have the opportunity to select a heat in order of their bids
Finer details, rules, and on Friday bids all at
http://cmubuggy.org/Auction
Suggestions, discussion, requests for clarification in the forum
We are, of course extremely thankful to sweepstakes for giving us the opportunity to use a spot in the lead truck to create this opportunity and to raise some money so that the Buggy Alumni Association can pursue its mission to support buggy.