Posted on | by Sam Swift

One part fog and one part rain made for an interesting but brief weekend of rolls.  Fog is usually an issue at daybreak that then burns off as rolls proceed, but on Saturday it was backwards.  Rolls started clear and then pressed on through a thickening blanket.   Sunday’s rolls were cancelled on Saturday night in light of the oncoming rain which did materialize from 5-8am.

I wasn’t in town this weekend, so this post is an experiment in crowd-sourced reporting.  As you can see, the product is a bit on the thin side.  If you’re in town and would like to contribute in the future, get in on this thread.  Feel free to add exciting stories we missed from this week in the comments.

In Attendance (buggies listed newest to oldest)

Org Saturday
AEPi Kamikaze
CIA Freyja, Renaissance, Quasar
Fringe Borealis, Bedlam, Banyan, Blizzard
PiKA Nemesis, Chimera, Knightfall, Brimstone, Zeus
Pioneers Chaos
SDC Avarice, Malice, Addiction, Rage
SigEp Barracuda, Pandora
Spirit Seraph, Fuko, Haraka

Observations (Saturday gallery)

  • PiKA brought their ’02 buggy, Brimstone out for the first time in a couple of years.  They’re now up to 5 buggies and 5 drivers (1 new), giving them the most active buggies on the course this fall.  It did make it around the course 3 times, but for some reason it rolled very slowly and nearly stopped in the chute.  Chimera was following down the hill at Chimera speeds and the chute audience braced for a high speed pass.  Chimera’s driver handled it perfectly though and went cruising on by.
  • Spirit had some sort of stop, although I only know that from this picture.
  • Pioneers brought out a second new driver this weekend despite having rolled only one buggy in the past couple of years.  I hope that I’m correctly inferring that it means they’ll be bigger than past years, either by adding a buggy or at least by racing a women’s team this year.
  • Fringe and PiKA held the top spots based on freeroll times on Saturday although things were a bit slower in general than last week.  Every team posted a slower best time than last week except Pioneers who shaved 8 seconds from their season-best.  Who’s not scared to adventure into the dense fog?  The Pioneers.

10 thoughts on “Rolls Report: Oct 2”

  • Sam Swift says:

    Sure enough, we’ve got Ms. Mednieks in the history database already. I’ll pass the blame to sweepstakes who has her marked as new in their spreadsheet.

  • Anonymous says:

    I saw Spirit’s hill 5 pusher step on the back hatch of a buggy, but I don’t know which buggy it was. And yes, Pioneers has one old and one new driver.

  • Ethan Gladding says:

    Pioneers has in fact recruited a new driver; Hira Ahmad. She rolled for the first time this weekend after watching from the follow car as Maija took the first run.

  • Anonymous says:

    Apparently people are not always being clear enough about who can go on the course when. Some guy crossed the street right in front of CIA’s Renaissance just as she was starting down the freeroll. Luckily the new driver (the same driver who actually stopped at a stop flag her first day of rolls) avoided him by a foot or two. We’ve GOT to do better with keeping people off the course.

  • Alex says:

    Not sure who/what org Anonymous is posting from, but isn’t that kind of on CIA to make sure there isn’t anyone about to cross the road before they send their buggy? Sort of the sending-org’s responsibility in that case, and not any barricader? Unless I’m mis-imagining the location here.

  • Anonymous says:

    Actually, it was sort of the guy’s own fault. CIA waited for him to stop crossing, and he did, but when Renaissance started rolling he suddenly decided it was a good idea to try and cross right in front of her, so it wasn’t really any org’s fault. I guess some people just lack common sense.

  • Anonymous says:

    Not sure why I can’t post on the forum, but SigNu may be up to something. They were working in their garage all day yesterday and late into the night. First time I’ve seen them work with the garage door open. There were a bunch of guys toiling over a buggy sized thing all day.

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