Welcome to the 95th year of Buggy!

Hey guys,

Orientation is almost over and classes are about to begin which means that we have a few weeks before the 95th year of buggy rolls! Are you ready? We will be, and we’ll be making a few adjustments to the site for this year.

First off, for any of you freshmen that made your way here, Welcome! We hope you found the “What is Buggy” event informative and we encourage you to look through the Video and gallery sections to help you get an idea of what it’s like to be a part of this amazing sport. If you have any questions, feel free to post them here and our community would be more than happy to answer them for you.

Along those lines, our current forum system has been having some troubles, so we are going to try turning the reddit based Project Zone into our new forum system. If this works well, we’ll keep it there, otherwise we’ll use that until we can fix our current system. We will be freezing the current forum and keep it accessible for anyone that wants to peruse the old conversations.

Lastly, before rolls possibly happen, we are planning our own Globally plaid event that will mimic the design comp panel we had last carnival. The only difference is this time we will be doing it over a google hangout with Buggy people from around the globe. We are still figuring out who all will be involved so if you’re interested in participating, please let us know!

That’s all for now, What are you looking forward to this year?

Congrats Graduates! and other news

Hey Graduates, let me in no way be the first to congratulate you on a job well done! Thanks for a very exciting year and we hope to see you back for all the Carnivals and Homecomings to come. If you missed your opportunity to become a member with our senior deal, shoot us an email at join@cmubuggy.org and we’ll see about getting you a membership. We’ve got a lot of big plans and we want to get started as soon as we can. To make that happen we need your help.

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Raceday Previews are being Distributed!

Hey everybody,

It’s that joyous time of year when the Raceday Preview actually comes out for all of our dues paying members. Sadly we know of a few members who have paid dues but we unfortunately do not have their email to send the Raceday Preview to.

If you paid your dues, and didn’t receive your Preview, please email news@cmubuggy.org and we will get it to you as soon as possible!

If you haven’t paid dues, but would like one, please check out cmubuggy.org/join for ways that you can obtain said Preview and email us when you’re done.

Happy reading, and we look forward to seeing you all at the Design Competition in TWO DAYS!

12 HOURS REMAIN!

That’s right, there’s only 12 hours left in the Lead Truck auction. We just broke the $750 barrier which is awesome, but not anywhere close to our best. Remember, share this with anyone and everyone, we don’t want to have anyone realize too late that they could have won a spot in the lead truck!

Also, by this point Truck weekend is over and we here at the BAA are working hard on the Members only preview. The Raceday Preview is still set to come out Monday. We know our lists are incomplete, so if you have paid your dues, but don’t get your preview right away, don’t fret! Just shoot us an email saying when or how you donated (via our site, or by registering for the Luncheon) and we’ll get that preview sent right to you!

Current Roll Counts

So I’ve been getting some questions about which drivers are qualified, who’s close ect. Going into truck weekend, I feel like you guys should know who got their act together, who’ll just barely make it in under the wire, and who might be looking for some forgiveness. Right now, there are 4 orgs that seem like they’ve been prepared for this, and several that are very very close.

Surprisingly, only a couple teams are in danger of needing forgiveness. My recommendation to teams at this point would be to work as quickly and efficiently as possible at rolls and to focus on pass tests. Continue reading

Auction is Live at 9am!

So I know I said the Auction would be up last night, but because of the 24hr swap time allotted to teams, we had to push things back of it, so APRIL FOOLS! Anyway, we will be running from 9am today to 9pm Sunday. This will give us a full 5 days of auctioning so get out there and bet! Also, we’re expanding this auction to the parents as well, so be ready for a little more competition than usual! Continue reading

Auction mini-post – Heat Selections and chute vids

Heat selections happened last night and went pretty smoothly. No one was wondering about hill 1 times at all, so either everyone has done some fantastic scouting, or we will have some very interesting hill 2 races. The big shenanigan of the night was PiKA attempting to run 3 men’s teams with only Banshee and Chimera. By removing that, a whole heat was removed and the whole thing had to be redone, not that it made much of a difference in the end.

Sweepstakes is allowing 24 hrs for teams to make any swaps as they need them. Because of that we will be launching the Auction tonight when heats become final. In the mean time, enjoy these videos from Rolls a couple weekends ago. Continue reading