The BAA will be holding a Town Hall tonight (February 15, 2021) from 8-9pm EST. Join us to hear about what we’ve been up to, go over Raceday details, and ask us your most pressing buggy questions.
Join us on Zoom here!
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Happy New Year from the BAA Officers! January is here, which means Raceday is right around the chute turn. We’d love to make sure that the BAA website has everything you need to have a great raceday, so we want to hear from you as to what sorts of tools you’d like to see on the site.
As examples, in the past we have had live updating leaderboard and heat schedules, and even a broadcast bingo board!
Let us know what you’d like to see in the comments in this post, in the #suggestions channel in our Discord, or by emailing us at dev(at)cmubuggy(dot)org. Thank you!
Rolls Report – November 21
November 21, 2021
CIA: Aurora, Equinox
PiKA: Raptor, Banshee
Spirit: Kingpin, Zuke, Inviscid
SAE: Eileen
Fringe: Bumper, Blind Faith
DG: Brazen
Very uneventful day! The only delay was chores getting started (it was tree shedding day and there were tons of leaves all over the course)
CIA: taking it light with two buggies out—six rolls for Equinox and five for Aurora
PiKA: , six rolls for Raptor, five for Banshee (Banshee didn’t get one for a last-minute goggles fogging issue. They also got called out by EMS for follow car-ring too speedy
Spirit: Spirit had one small stop today – zuke in front was going really slowly, so the flaggers threw stop flags for the back two to avoid any sort of a sketchy pass. Zuke had some time to get ahead, and mechanics from the follow car pushed the other two buggies through. They ended up with five rolls for kingpin and inviscid (lost one each from the stop) but only one the whole day for Zuke
SAE: It was SAE’s first day out! They ended up getting four safe and solid rolls 😊
Fringe: Fringe never got more than one buggy out at a time. They ended up getting three rolls each for Bumper and Blind Faith
DG: DG’s second day out! They seem to be doing really well, and got four rolls for Brazen.
Rolls Report – November 14th
November 14, 2021
SigEp: Hydra
CIA: Kingfisher, Aurora, Tempest
PiKA: Banshee
Apex: Molotov, Solaris
SDC: Bane, Havoc, Vanity, Avarice
Spirit: KP, Seraph
Fringe: Baltic
DG: Brazen
SigEp: Ended up scratching every roll despite staging and dropping successfully D:
CIA: Accidental pass between Aurora and Kingfisher at one point, but otherwise smooth day with 6 rolls for Aurora and Tempest and 5 for Kingfisher
PiKA: Only one buggy out; Pike was only five rolls because one of theirs had a controlled top due to a Spin Scooter maintenance guy crossing the course
Apex: Didn’t stick around the whole day, but four rolls each for Molotov and Solaris with Solaris’ rubbing issues seemingly resolved
SDC: Dropped all four buggies, only rolled Avarice once, Bane got 6 rolls and Havoc got 5
Spirit: Six rolls for each of KP and Seraph
Fringe: 5 rolls for just Baltic
DG: DG’s first day!! 3 very smooth bagged rolls for their new driver today, lots of excitement to see them out on the course
Rolls Report – Mini Raceday!
Photos: https://cmubuggy.smugmug.com/2021-2022/Fall-Rolls-Nov-6-Mini-Raceday/
SDC: Bane, Vice, Avarice
Fringe: Blind Faith, Baltic,
Apex: Pheonix, Firefly, Molotov
Spirit: Zuke, KP, Seraph, Inviscid
CIA: Kingfisher, Emperor, Tempest, Aurora
SigEp: Kraken,
PiKA: Raptor, Cleo, Banshee
View timing info here: http://timing.cmubuggy.org/
View live stream recording here: https://cmubuggy.org/live/
Congrats to everyone on a very smooth and productive mini raceday!! A special congratulations to Spirit for having the fastest time of the day.
Congratulations to the winner of Fantasy Buggy: Dave Singh with a total time of 150.12. We will be contacting you for the best way to get you your Buggy Prize Pack.
Also we’d like to recognize our top Front Hill / Buggy and Back Hill Times:
- Best Front Hill / Free Roll: tie between Bobbie Chen and Dan Francis (86.56)
- Best Back Hill: Andy Bordick (59.18)
Rolls Report – October 30th
October 30, 2021
PiKA: Banshee, Cleo, Raptor
Apex: Molotov, Solaris
SDC: Bane, Havoc, Vice, Vanity
Spirit: Zuke, Kingpin II, Seraph, Inviscid
Minor delays throughout the day due to Scaife construction crane-ing stuff over the course as well as a Quiz Bowl in Porter Hall that saw increased numbers of pedestrians. But all in all a relatively smooth day of rolls given how few teams were out. After today, every caped team has at least one driver/buggy pair at full rolls carryover for the fall for 13 total pairings at full carryover.
Apex: Four rolls for Molotov and two for Solaris—some brake and harness rope rubbing issues on Solaris that slowed it down in the chute, but other than that no incidents.
SDC: Vanity’s axle fell off in the first roll (she had visibility issues due to the construction lights and clipped the outer chute bales) and was scratched the rest of the day, but the other three buggies comfortably got 2 rolls in each.
Spirit: Unfortunately, Inviscid never hit the course, but Seraph and KP each got 3 rolls and Zuke got 2.
PiKA: Three rolls for each of Banshee, Cleo, and Raptor with no issues or incidents!
Homecoming weekend and Mini Raceday events
We’re excited to be back in person and see your familiar faces out on the course! We have several Homecoming Weekend events and activities planned:
FANTASY BUGGY
Overview:
This year at Mini Raceday we will be testing your skills to see who can be the best chairperson! It’s time to prove you can build the best buggy team by participating in Fantasy Buggy. So, how does it work? The BAA will be timing each Hill time and free roll during rolls on Saturday November 6th. You will build your team of 1 Buggy and Hills 1-5 to aim for the best time. Your score will be an aggregate of your selected team. If you’re in town and interested in helping with timing, reach out to willyclark97@gmail.com.
Using this link, you will be able to fill out your team and compete to win a Buggy Prize Pack. Submissions are free, but if you’d like to donate to the BAA we won’t say no 
Timeline:
- Fri Oct 29, 11:59pm: Game open to entries at this link
- Fri Nov 5, 11:59pm: All entries must be in
- Sat Nov 6, 7:30-9:00am: Homecoming rolls and times collected
- Sun Nov 7: Winner is announced and we will contact you for the best way to receive your prize
Rules:
- A “Team” will consist of 5 hills and 1 buggy
- Score to be calculated by best hill times of the day + org’s best free roll time of the day
- Each entry will be allowed to submit an alternate in the case that the org is a scratch or choose to not run the hill on that day (i.e., PiKA chooses to start at hill 2 so the alternate will be used for hill 1 time)
- Each org may only be represented once in the starting line up and once in the alternate line up (i.e., if you choose SDC for the Buggy, you CANNOT choose SDC for any of the Hills)
- All submissions that do not meet the rule requirements will not be eligible for the prize
BAR MEET UP
Friday Nov 5th, 8:00 pm at Fuel and Fuddle
Some BAA Officers will be meeting up for drinks and to talk buggy at Fuel and Fuddle Friday night ahead of Mini Raceday. If so inclined, come down, say hello, share your favorite buggy story, and brag about why your Fantasy Buggy team will be the best.
COFFEE AT THE COURSE OR ONLINE
Saturday No 6th, 7:30 am on the Course and virtually at cmubuggy.org/live
The BAA will have coffee and donuts available for anyone coming out to see rolls. Come by to say hello, and enjoy coffee and a donut on us!
Rolls Report – October 10
This day of rolls started out like any other day so far this year. A small delay due to a truck delivery coming in for parents weekend, some wildlife on the course (living geese and dead chipmunks) and a sleeping barricader leading to an EMS and CMUPD call. Unfortunately, it ended with an ambulance on the course to attend to a buggy crash.
Continue readingRolls Report – October 2: HONK!
Despite a late start again (due to a radio club delay), buggies made it around the course! Pretty crazy day however, if you ask me… https://cmubuggy.smugmug.com/2021-2022/Fall-Rolls-Oct-2
During the second roll through the other two maladies hit the course at the same time: dense fog and a pack of hungry geese.
Continue readingRolls Report – September 25: They made it out again!
A pretty easy weekend of rolls. For day 2, the 13 minute delay (due to some chores complications) wasn’t too bad! Sweeps got through the roll order 3 times, so a solid day overall. Four teams with four buggies out each, and SigEp made it out for the first week as well! Props as always to Kaycee, Frank, Sydney and Nahyun for killing it another day! <3
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