Midsemester Break – No Rolls but some News

With not enough teams to meet quorum, buggy took a break for the long weekend of the midsemester. With nothing to report on, we’ve been looking for something to share with you guys. Given our current struggle with membership tracking, we know there are some of you that didn’t get our most recent publication. So, until we figure out our tracking issue, everyone who reads this can get their own copy. Just send an email to news@cmubuggy.org, no donation required. If you’re feeling generous however, we of course wouldn’t say no.

Enjoy!

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Rolls Report: Oct. 17 & 18 – Not a single spin!

Good news everyone! This weekend of rolls was completely and totally 100% incident-free! That’s right; not a single buggy spun, crashed, or even came to an unintentional stop. In addition to this glorious piece of news, more roadwork has been done to the back hills and there are now shiny parking lines. This doesn’t seem like much, but it will take some of the guesswork out of measuring rollouts. With better comparisons between buggies, we can spend even more time trying to predict future success amongst the teams.

In less exciting news, it’s mid-October in Pennsylvania and we had the first snow of the season. It didn’t impact this weekend’s rolls, but was a friendly reminder that winter is coming. Fortunately, the weather for the next couple weeks looks damp, but not so cold as to allow for more snow. Hopefully we can keep rolling buggies until Thanksgiving.

In Attendance 

Org Saturday Sunday
AEPi  Kamikaze
Apex  Ember  Phoenix
CIA  Equinox, Icarus, Orca, Ascension  Equinox, Icarus
Fringe  Balius, Bissa, Beacon  Balius, Beacon
PhiDelt  Perun  Perun
PiKA  Banshee  Banshee
SDC  Malice, Avarice, Havoc, Vice  Malice, Avarice, Havoc, Vice
SigEp Pandora
SigNu Bungarus Krait
Spirit  Inviscid, Zuke, Seraph, Kingpin  Inviscid, Zuke, Seraph
Robo  Transistor  Transistor

Observations (Saturday Gallery | Sunday Gallery) Continue reading

Rolls Report: Oct 10 & 11 – Ceilidh: Now with buggies!

Both CMU and UPitt celebrated their homecomings this weekend. The title of this post might be a little misleading because buggies have been rolling during Ceilidh since CMU re-branded their homecoming festivities, however this weekend saw a fairly large number of buggies parading around Flagstaff. Also, there were donuts provided through the Buggy Alumni Association, so that’s cool. The donuts seemed to be quite popular as Saturday welcomed many parents a quite a few alumni. It’s always great to see parents out supporting their children’s odd choices in extracurricular activities. It’s similarly great to see alumni foregoing sleep in favor of their former odd choices in extracurricular activities.

In terms of buggies, this weekend was relatively smooth. The average freeroll speed picked up as many organizations were sending their buggies with full hill 2 pushoffs, and more and more drivers are comfortable in bagless buggies. We saw a few spins in/near the chute, but all drivers came out fine and it was otherwise a crash-free weekend.

In Attendance 

Org Saturday Sunday
AEPi  Kamikaze
Apex  Phoenix, Ember  Phoenix, Ember
CIA  Equinox, Icarus, Orca, Ascension  Equinox, Icarus, Orca, Ascension
Fringe  Bissa, Beacon  Bissa, Beacon
PhiDelt  Perun  Perun
PiKA  Banshee  Banshee, Raptor
SDC  Malice, Avarice, Havoc, Vice  Vice, Malice, Avarice
SigEp  Kraken, Pandora
SigNu Krait  Krait
Spirit  Inviscid, Zuke, Seraph  Zuke, Seraph
Robo  Transistor  Transistor

Observations (Saturday Gallery | Sunday Gallery) Continue reading

Ceilidh is Upon Us

Welcome folks to another Ceilidh celebration here at the Pittsburgh Campus of CMU! For us Buggy people, this weekend is more or less business as usual. The weather looks like it will hold and the teams are ready for another full weekend of rolls. This time though, Ceilidh will bring some added bonuses.

Quick look of Ceilidh Buggy Events:
Rolls Donut Tent 7am Sat+Sun Frew Street
Buggy Panel Talk 2pm Sat Connan Roon

While Ceilidh hasn’t really become a major alumni event for us, it is a time when we will have the most parents in town to see just what the hell their kids are up to. We’ll be welcoming and greeting any visitors to the course with a mini version of our Raceday Donut tent. We will likely be setting up in a similar place or closer to top of the hill. Donuts will be arriving at 7 so all teams will get a chance to grab one before rolls really get going.

Aside from rolls, we have put together a small panel of students and alums who will be sharing their experience and answering questions from the audience Saturday afternoon. This is just like the panels that we started having the last couple years, and is the first time we are doing one at Ceilidh. We’re expecting a much different audience and early numbers make it look like it’ll be VERY well attended! We will be going for an hour and a half starting at 2pm.

Given the celebration we will be attempting to livestream all weekend. Allowing you to watch and potentially interact during rolls and the panel from anywhere in the world. It’s been a while since we’ve livestreamed so forgive us if our skills aren’t up to snuff.

As an added bonus to all of our members, whether you are in town or not, you will be getting a special gift later tonight. Of course if you think you should be on the list and don’t hear from us, just let us know and we’ll correct things right away. If you’re not a member yet, head on over to the membership page and join or renew, this is one you won’t want to miss this one.

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Rolls Report: Oct. 4 – A Pleasantly Quiet Day of Rolls

Unlike last weekend, which was full of Scottish-themed events and Great Racing, this weekend was refreshingly low key. Rain and soggy forecasts thwarted Saturday’s rolls, but Sunday was quite dry and relatively pleasant weather for the seven teams out with buggies.

In Attendance

Org Sunday
Apex Phoenix
CIA Equinox, Ascension, Impulse
Fringe X1, Balious, Beacon, Bissa
PiKA Banshee
SDC Havoc, Avarice, Malice, Vice
SigEp Kraken, Pandora
Spirit Inviscid, Seraph, Mapambazuko, Seraph
Robo Transistor

Observations (Sunday) Continue reading