{"id":10087,"date":"2024-04-01T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/?p=10087"},"modified":"2024-04-16T08:05:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T12:05:49","slug":"breaking-raceday-renamed-buggy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2024\/04\/breaking-raceday-renamed-buggy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Raceday Renamed “Buggy Day”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PITTSBURGH, PA \u2013 After a contentious, four-hour long debate at a Chairman\u2019s meeting today, Sweepstakes Chair Ale Bonacini announced that \u201cRaceday 2024\u201d has officially been renamed to \u201cBuggy Day 2024\u201d. Raceday, the traditional name used to describe Carnegie Mellon\u2019s Sweepstakes race held during CMU\u2019s Spring Carnival festivities, had been in use since by students, staff, and alumni for several generations, with its first reported use in writing going back to 1965. Planning was well underway with the \u201cRaceday 2024\u201d branding for the upcoming April 12-13 event. But after a tense meeting and a 7-6 tiebreaking vote, the Chairpeople decided to buck that trend and set out on a new course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The motion to rename the races to \u201cBuggy Day\u201d was initiated by Fringe. \u201cWe believe that Buggy would be better off by branding the bout between bitter rivals with the best alphabetical beginning, best it be bestowed the byname Buggy Day\u201d, said Fringe Chair Winona Wang. The motion was quickly seconded by SigNu, whose representative stated that \u201cour alumni have been way too involved, telling us about how much better things were in the old days. We need some independence, and what better way to do that then to wipe the slate clean and rebrand the race?\u201d SigNu’s rep wished to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal by their vengeful alumni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The discussion then turned a little more heated, as PiKA and SDC voiced their objections to the proposal. SDC Chair Matthew Garcia made a point that seemed to resonate with several teams, stating that \u201cwe already ordered our shirts that say \u2018Raceday 2024\u2019 and there\u2019s not enough time to get a new design printed and shipped!\u201d \u201cWe\u2019ve been racing since 1921, and we\u2019ve been calling it Raceday since 1921\u201d said PiKA Chair Christian Lanuza. \u201cIt\u2019s Raceday. That\u2019s what it is. \u2018Buggy Day\u2019 sounds like something that a person who was attending their first Chairmen\u2019s meeting ever would say<\/a>!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teams seemed to fall into one of two camps, with newer teams favoring the name change and more established teams favoring tradition. As AEPi Chair Elijah Cohen put it, \u201cthe only reason we stopped doing Buggy was due to confusion \u2013 our brothers thought \u2018Raceday\u2019 was referring to the Mobot races, so we\u2019ve been dominating that for several years. With the name \u2018Buggy Day\u2019, we\u2019ll be back to racing buggies!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After several hours of debate, Sweepstakes officially took a vote, with Fringe, SigNu, AEPi, Apex, and DG supporting the name change and Spirit, CIA, SigEp, PiKA, and SDC opposing. Teams spent another hour lobbying the remaining teams, and each side believed that they had crafted a convincing argument. When the votes were tallied however, more chaos ensued. The Spirit-led group pushing to keep the name Raceday had convinced SAE to side with them, but the Fringe-backed group pushing for the name \u201cBuggy Day\u201d had convinced newcomer Frontier. This left the vote deadlocked at 6, at which point Sweepstakes no choice but to leave the decision up to Sweepstakes Advisor Stacie Gardner, who ultimately decided to approve the name change. With her decisive vote, Stacie stated that “for years, people have been mocked, ridiculed, and slandered for mis-stating the name of the day when buggies race around CMU’s campus. Today, we put an end to buggy bullying. From now on, the day that buggies race will be known by the name that everyone expects it to be called – ‘Buggy Day’.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The name change is set to go into effect today, April 1, 2024. Sweepstakes has already announced, however, that they are looking into voting irregularities involving SAE and Frontier, so stay tuned. Regardless, we at the BAA are here to keep you up to date on both this year’s Buggy Day activities<\/a> and historical Buggy Day Results<\/a>.

And…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PITTSBURGH, PA \u2013 After a contentious, four-hour long debate at a Chairman\u2019s meeting today, Sweepstakes Chair Ale Bonacini announced that \u201cRaceday 2024\u201d has officially been renamed to \u201cBuggy Day 2024\u201d. Raceday, the traditional name used to describe Carnegie Mellon\u2019s Sweepstakes race held during CMU\u2019s Spring Carnival festivities, had been in use since by students, staff, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":10111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interest-buggy-stuff","category-sweepstakes-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10087"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10096,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087\/revisions\/10096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}