{"id":1234,"date":"2010-11-17T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2023-09-03T12:50:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T17:50:57","slug":"rolls-report-mini-raceday-and-the-end-of-the-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2010\/11\/rolls-report-mini-raceday-and-the-end-of-the-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolls Report: Mini-Raceday and the end of the semester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, I&#8217;m a slacker, this is way late. \u00a0Here&#8217;s the silver lining though. \u00a0This is your last rolls report until the spring so now the drought you have to endure is two days shorter! \u00a0Plus, scroll down and check it out, this report is meaty. \u00a0Good weather, a fair number of teams (include one new one!), enthusiasm, and some speed made for a top notch finale to the semester. \u00a0SDC successfully <a href=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2009\/11\/rolls-report-mini-raceday\/\">defended their mini-raceday men&#8217;s title<\/a>, but Fringe took the women&#8217;s case of beer. \u00a0More details on that below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Attendance<\/strong> (buggies listed newest to oldest)<\/p>\n<table class=\"data\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Org<\/th>\n<th>Saturday<\/th>\n<th>Sunday<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>AEPi<\/td>\n<td>Kamikaze, Zephyrus<\/td>\n<td>Kamikaze<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>CIA<\/td>\n<td>Freyja, Renaissance, Firebird, Quasar<\/td>\n<td>Freyja, Renaissance, Quasar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Fringe<\/td>\n<td>Borealis, Banyan, Blizzard<\/td>\n<td>Borealis, Bedlam, Blizzard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>KapSig<\/td>\n<td>Apache<\/td>\n<td>Apache<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>PiKA<\/td>\n<td>Nemesis, Chimera, Knightfall, Zeus, Desperado<\/td>\n<td>Knightfall, Zeus,\u00a0Desperado<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Pioneers<\/td>\n<td>Chaos<\/td>\n<td>Chaos<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SDC<\/td>\n<td>Avarice, Malice, Psychosis, Addiction, Rage<\/td>\n<td>Avarice, Malice, Psychosis, Addiction, Rage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SigEp<\/td>\n<td>Barracuda, Pandora<\/td>\n<td>Barracuda, Pandora<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Spirit<\/td>\n<td>Seraph, Fuko, Haraka<\/td>\n<td>Seraph, Fuko, Haraka<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Observations<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-13\">Saturday gallery<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-14\">Sunday gallery<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mechcozmo\/sets\/72157625279565745\/\">Bonus gallery c\/o AEPi<\/a>)<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-13\/i-BdHncjw\/0\/04ff8cab\/Th\/DSC_6794-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>By far, my favorite news item of the weekend is that KapSig showed up on the course, and did it in style with their own new buggy, Apache. \u00a0Correct me if I&#8217;m wrong, but I think it&#8217;s been 10 years since a new team joined the ranks with a new buggy that they built themselves. \u00a0That was SigEp in 2000, and they are a pretty solid success story at this point. \u00a0Apache looks to be a pretty respectable first build &#8230; a reverse tryke on xootr&#8217;s with a flashy silver paint job and unabashed weave texture. \u00a0Their driver, Amy Revak, is a junior who drove all three of PhiKap&#8217;s buggies last year so they&#8217;ve got that experience working for them.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-13\/i-sMQBgH9\/0\/2bfcb1d0\/Th\/DSC_6737-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Things started off a bit slowly when Apache ran out of gas near the transition flag on its first roll Saturday. \u00a0The new mechanics in the follow car didn&#8217;t know what the procedure was, so they picked her up and put her on the sidewalk. \u00a0When sweepstakes arrived and heard nothing was wrong, they got her back on the course to finish the roll and start tallying qualifying rolls. \u00a0The rest of the weekend seemed to go pretty smooth, so good work KapSig!<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">It was great to see the roll order up to 9 orgs for the first time this semester, and everyone even made it out both days (although there were 12 this time last year). \u00a0It was interesting how the manpower was allocated with PiKA, SDC, and CIA rolling a total of 14 buggies on Saturday while the other 6 orgs had only 12. \u00a0The big teams were regularly collecting their buggies on hill 5 while they continued to send more down over hill 2. \u00a0Nothing wrong with this of course, just an interesting trend. \u00a0The counts evened out a bit on Sunday.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">SAE apparently came out on Saturday but never got to roll because they didn&#8217;t have a follow car. \u00a0That confuses me on a lot of levels.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-13\/i-VbCqJpS\/0\/917dd4bd\/Th\/DSC_6855-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>PiKA had the most dramatic chute incident of the weekend on Saturday, but I&#8217;m happy to report it was pretty mild. Nemesis spun fully around mid-chute but never touched a thing and came to a stop. \u00a0Chimera was following and got the brake flag, but then she spun too when she hit the brakes. \u00a0Both drivers were extracted and neither buggy made it back out for Sunday, but the drivers weren&#8217;t too bummed out.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-13\/i-HxbhrRB\/0\/3de6f380\/Th\/DSC_6820-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Spirit had a clean weekend and had Fuko going fast enough to match their best times of the semester. \u00a0I think this debate was offline, but for the record, Spirit is rolling on 3 xootr-diameter wheels on each of their buggies these days. \u00a0For a while they kept the pneumatic in the front, but for the record, they&#8217;re all modernized now.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-14\/i-fHVFNtv\/0\/3f8db4d7\/Th\/DSC_7021-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>SigEp&#8217;s Barracuda had a really crisp spin on Sunday. \u00a0Usually spins of the oversteer variety look like they happen in slow motion (I&#8217;m sure the driver&#8217;s perspective is different). \u00a0You can normally tell that the driver is barely hanging on and then the back starts to slide out and then it&#8217;s lost. \u00a0Unless you&#8217;re driving a Spirit buggy, in which case you can still save it. \u00a0Anyhow, Barracuda&#8217;s spin was different. \u00a0She looked totally fine, cruising along and then she spun a perfect 180 degrees instantly and started rolling in reverse pretty smoothly. \u00a0It looked like she hit the e-brake button in a old video game before they had the physics worked out very well.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-13\/i-Fg98rpK\/0\/70b5a9e8\/Th\/DSC_6754-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-13\/i-Dkw9VMp\/0\/4392c983\/Th\/DSC_6755-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>CIA&#8217;s\u00a0Renaissance\u00a0 had an awesome &#8220;pimp my buggy&#8221; end-of-semester set up with battery-powered speakers mounted outside the buggy near the pushbar. \u00a0The playlist was pretty varied, but always blasting. \u00a0Some of my favorites were &#8220;Move bitch, get out the way&#8221; when they were trying to come down the sidewalk past SDC, and the selection of motivational sports soundtrack classics like the the Rocky theme and Flight of the Valkaries.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">Man, this is already super long and I haven&#8217;t even talked about Mini-Raceday. \u00a0The general approach was a bit less serious than in some recent years. \u00a0Sweepstakes&#8217; timing was on the approximate side for starters. \u00a0Picture a single cell phone with a stopwatch function being used with gloves\u00a0at a distance from the timing points. \u00a0They also never released all of the times as far as I know. \u00a0I think the winners were announced and each team&#8217;s times were sent to them privately. \u00a0I don&#8217;t get the privacy about times since anyone could be out there collecting them, but maybe I&#8217;m missing something.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-13\/i-MkJ89wk\/0\/7fc41b90\/Th\/DSC_6833-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>SDC won the men&#8217;s contest with a crosswalk &#8211;&gt; finish line time in the neighborhood of 1:46.5, or about a second slower than mini raceday last year. \u00a0I thought that they had figured out a clever mini raceday strategy on sunday when they were starting their rolls from straight up Schenley Dr. instead of rolling over from Tech St. \u00a0Starting from up there on the left gives you extra altitude and a straight shot for the shove so I could see it working. \u00a0It turns out that SDC didn&#8217;t have Sweepstakes time their Sunday rolls though, so I don&#8217;t know what they were up to. \u00a0Theories? \u00a0It&#8217;s good to see that SDC has plenty of their mojo after their bummer of a raceday last year.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-14\/i-V8GzhxZ\/0\/1217d62a\/Th\/DSC_6964-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Fringe won the women&#8217;s races with a time also about a second off of last year&#8217;s winning time, but I&#8217;m not sure how many orgs had women&#8217;s teams. \u00a0Probably more impressive is that they were less than a second behind SDC in the men&#8217;s race. \u00a0Last year the margin was more like 4 seconds. \u00a0It&#8217;s tough to say how predictive the push teams are for the independents this time of year, but so far things are looking more competitive between those two.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-14\/i-fQDNLFh\/0\/0bc7abca\/Th\/DSC_7015-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-13\/i-FZRCJbN\/0\/acbff16a\/Th\/DSC_6788-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>I don&#8217;t have mini-raceday times on PiKA, but my guess is they didn&#8217;t quite have their act together enough to be a factor. \u00a0They did look to be trying, but their freeroll times were 4-5 seconds behind SDC and Fringe, and the scene at the top of the hill was pretty chaotic every time they were up. \u00a0They were rolling 5 buggies which is enough to put any tent into chaos, but it will be interesting to see whether they pull it together in the spring to make it a three way race. \u00a0History would say they can put down a competitive time in their sleep, and they&#8217;ve definitely put down plenty of speed this semester.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><br style=\"clear: right;\" \/><br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll have a couple of more wrap-up posts for the semester before we head out for the holidays, but I want to thank everyone who helped me produce the rolls reports this semester. \u00a0Looking back at posts from fall &#8217;08 and even last year show how far we&#8217;ve come as an organization. \u00a0I&#8217;m a fan. \u00a0See you all out there as soon as the snow melts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, I&#8217;m a slacker, this is way late. \u00a0Here&#8217;s the silver lining though. \u00a0This is your last rolls report until the spring so now the drought you have to endure is two days shorter! \u00a0Plus, scroll down and check it out, this report is meaty. \u00a0Good weather, a fair number of teams (include one new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rolls-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9377,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions\/9377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}