{"id":1851,"date":"2011-11-14T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2023-09-04T14:00:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T19:00:54","slug":"rolls-report-nov-12-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2011\/11\/rolls-report-nov-12-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolls Report: Nov 12 &#038; 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2011-2012\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-12\/i-6CRpgJv\/0\/a1683e14\/Th\/DSC_0907-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>13 times through the order in one weekend is enough to wear out fresh, energetic teams in September. \u00a0For the teams running a little lower than they&#8217;d like on manpower (almost all of them) here in mid-November, this weekend was a real endurance test. \u00a0But the drivers got huge amounts of practice and for the most part everyone had their act together. \u00a0We also had some fun producing content this weekend with black and white photography on Saturday and a live streaming broadcast from the chute on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In attendance<\/strong><\/p>\n<table class=\"data\" border=\"0\">\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><\/td>\n<td>Kamikaze<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>CIA<\/td>\n<td>Ascension, Freyja, Firebird, Quasar<\/td>\n<td>Ascension, Firebird, Freyja, Renaissance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DeltaForce<\/td>\n<td>(Perun)<\/td>\n<td>(Perun)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Fringe<\/td>\n<td>Bonsai, Borealis, Banyan, Bedlam<\/td>\n<td>Bonsai, Borealis, Banyan, Bedlam<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>KapSig<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SDC<\/td>\n<td>Bane, Avarice, Malice, Rage<\/td>\n<td>Avarice, Malice, Rage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SigEp<\/td>\n<td>Mamba, Pandora<\/td>\n<td>Mamba, Barracuda, Pandora<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SigNu<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Bungarus Krait<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Spirit<\/td>\n<td>Zuke, Seraph<\/td>\n<td>Zuke, Seraph, Haraka<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Observations<\/strong>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.smugmug.com\/2011-2012\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-12\">Saturday Gallery in B&amp;W<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.smugmug.com\/2011-2012\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-13\">Sunday Gallery<\/a>)<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lots of rolls to be had with two clear long days and minimal incidents. \u00a0Buggies made it around the course 94 times on Sunday in a little less than 2 hours. \u00a0Compare that to 34 rolls on Oct 23rd when there were 80 minutes of daylight to work with.<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2011-2012\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-12\/i-tF8qfrf\/0\/47909433\/Th\/DSC_0957-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Bane got caught up in the outside bales on Saturday and sheared off the axle at the shell. \u00a0Nobody caught a picture of it I don&#8217;t think, but when they carried it back up to the tent under a blanket, only one side had a protrusion where the rear wheels would be. \u00a0SDC usually swaps parts out pretty quickly, but Bane wasn&#8217;t back out on Sunday. \u00a0Bane had been going pretty fast and their buggies were drifting wide on a number of rolls, but they still usually have the balance worked out just right.<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2011-2012\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-12\/i-6DjkQj4\/0\/6a705491\/Th\/DSC_0937-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2011-2012\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-13\/i-S6FKZS2\/0\/b9a84487\/Th\/DSC_1219-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Spirit only spun once this weekend with Seraph on Saturday; it was of the vanilla no-contact variety and they pushed her back up the hill after conferring with the safety chair. \u00a0Haraka was sliding all over and coming very close to the outside bales almost every time on Sunday but managed to keep it inches away time after time. \u00a0I can&#8217;t keep track of their tire experiments, but Haraka was rolling on a wide flat matte black compound that may have been new or at least not their default.<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2011-2012\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-13\/i-rzHrvXT\/0\/d6117a6b\/Th\/DSC_1267-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2011-2012\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-12\/i-VXbdsfK\/0\/b02dc442\/Th\/DSC_1014-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>DeltaForce is out every day and looking very reliable. \u00a0They&#8217;ve got 22 rolls on the books and successful roll rate of 100% (not to jinx them). \u00a0 They were selling donuts to folks at the top of the hill to raise money for the team. \u00a0I gotta love the spirit and it really makes me wish some of the other teams that started but didn&#8217;t make it in recent years (DTD, Kappa) had started with a buggy as solid and reliable as Perun. \u00a0DeltaForce has been able to accumulate the keys skills and experience without endless frustrating set backs.<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2011-2012\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-13\/i-7WzP8wN\/0\/3ea8da2c\/Th\/DSC_1248-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>SigNu made it out on Sunday, and although they scratched the first 3 rolls of the day, they made it out and around the course cleanly. \u00a0Earlier in the year they rolled Skua with a female driver and didn&#8217;t complete any rolls after a couple of days on the course. \u00a0This weekend they rolled Krait and joined the male driver club (with CIA). \u00a0The U-Haul van follow car was just icing on the cake. \u00a0Glad to see them back out.<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2011-2012\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-13\/i-crmdCbF\/0\/af218399\/Th\/DSC_1286-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2011-2012\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-13\/i-G7jM2fL\/0\/f91ce766\/Th\/DSC_1147-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>I just have to call attention to the fact that I caught not one, but two buggies making it through the chute two-wheelin&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2011-2012\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-13\/i-dnLw2rg\/0\/c15bd0e7\/Th\/DSC_1055-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>On Sunday we experimented for the first time with doing a <a href=\"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/live\">live streaming webcast of freerolls<\/a> from a camera in the chute. \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/cmubuggy\/comments\/m8db3\/live_webcast_of_rolls\/\">idea came up in the project zone<\/a> this past week and since we had most of the necessary technological pieces already, we decided to just do it. \u00a0Aside from a few glitches we&#8217;ve now figured out it worked pretty well and a number of people (including teams in their tents) tuned in live with many more watching at least a chunk of the recorded version sometime later in the day.<\/li>\n<li>Fringe had 4 buggies in circulation each day, but only rolled 2 or 3 at a time. \u00a0They weren&#8217;t the only ones low on manpower; most orgs scratched a roll or two, or kept one in the tent each roll. \u00a0Nobody was out timing as far as I could tell, so we&#8217;re left to very rough estimates on speed.<\/li>\n<li>Four members of The Rez (aspiring buggy team based in a new dorm on 5th) were out on Saturday soaking up the experience as much as they could without having a buggy. \u00a0I walked a lap around the course with them and was very impressed with the depth of their knowledge and detailed plans. \u00a0They acknowledge that time is getting a little tight to start and finish their first build in time to learn the ropes and get to raceday, but they haven&#8217;t ruled it out. \u00a0If they can pull that off, or find a buggy to buy or rent I don&#8217;t doubt they&#8217;ll be a good team to have around in the spring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Only one weekend of rolls left before the long cold months in which the teams get to build exciting new buggies and we alumni have to argue about the merits design comp or something to pass the time. \u00a0Don&#8217;t miss our final rolls report of the semester a week from today as well as a likely second experiment with live streaming coverage from the chute over the weekend.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 times through the order in one weekend is enough to wear out fresh, energetic teams in September. \u00a0For the teams running a little lower than they&#8217;d like on manpower (almost all of them) here in mid-November, this weekend was a real endurance test. \u00a0But the drivers got huge amounts of practice and for the [&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-1851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rolls-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851","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=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9565,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions\/9565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}