{"id":3208,"date":"2014-11-10T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/?p=3208"},"modified":"2023-09-05T07:02:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T12:02:36","slug":"rolls-report-nov-8-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2014\/11\/rolls-report-nov-8-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolls Report: Nov 8 & 9 – Mini-Raceday Roll Arounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Now that teams have some extra daylight savings time, they got a chance to square off against each other and compete in a slightly early Mini-Raceday. Sweepstakes managed to get timers out for all splits around the course and teams got to get a rough time for front hills, Freeroll, backhills, and overall (if they did all 3). Some teams seemed burned out by Mini-Raceday and Sunday quickly turned into a free-for-all of roll-arounds for the teams willing to put in the effort. Teams that rolled both days were rewarded with a relatively warm morning after a quite frigid Mini-Raceday.<\/p>\n

I’m trying out a slightly different format for this week, comment below if you’d prefer to stick with the old one.<\/p>\n

In Attendance\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Org<\/th>\nSaturday<\/th>\nSunday<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
AEPi<\/td>\n\u00a0Kamikaze<\/td>\n\u00a0Kamikaze<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apex<\/td>\n\u00a0Phoenix<\/td>\n\u00a0Phoenix<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CIA<\/td>\n\u00a0Icarus, Impulse, Orca, Ascension, Freyja<\/td>\n\u00a0Icarus, Impulse, Ascension<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fringe<\/td>\n\u00a0Bolt, Beacon, Bissa<\/td>\n\u00a0Bolt, Beacon, Bissa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PiKA<\/td>\n\u00a0Banshee<\/td>\n\u00a0Banshee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SDC<\/td>\n\u00a0Vice, Rage<\/td>\n\u00a0Vice, Rage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SigEp<\/td>\n\u00a0Kraken, Barracuda, Pandora<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Spirit<\/td>\nHaraka, Seraph<\/td>\n\u00a0Seraph<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Roboclub<\/td>\n\u00a0Robobuggy<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
Observations<\/strong>\u00a0(Saturday Gallery<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Sunday Gallery<\/a>)<\/h5>\n

General:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Though Mini-Raceday went a bit slow, it was still very smooth. Timing didn’t seem to have much trouble aside from some slight impreciseness attributed to the stop watches. All recorded times were marked to the second leaving many teams with ties for some\u00a0segments and others within a second or two giving sweepstakes a hard time calling a winner.<\/p>\n

While most teams competed with men’s teams, CIA and Fringe were the only ones to compete in women’s. Freeroll times were surprisingly close between CIA, Fringe, and Spirit with a strange lack of top buggies from SDC and PiKA on the list. What clinched it was the Backhill times that CIA managed to put up for both their men’s and women’s teams leaving them with a victory in both categories for combined Freeroll and Backhill. CIA did not do any Hill 1’s leaving Fringe and Spirit to tie for the Overall men’s time and Fringe with the only entrant for Women’s Overall. One particular time of note is SigEp who managed to tie Spirit for the fastest Front Hills.<\/p>\n

Official times from Mini-Raceday can be found here: Official Sweepstakes Mini-Raceday Times<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Saturday may have run slowly, but Sunday was the complete opposite. Many teams seemed to be lacking a good portion of their crew and several opted to roll just a single buggy at a time, some later not by choice. Surprisingly, even though things felt much quicker, sweepstakes managed to roll exactly the same number of buggies around the course on both days. This is probably from the extra time teams took between rolls given the quick team-to-team change over.<\/p>\n

About halfway through the morning, Sweepstakes declared it a free-for-all and any team willing to roll just needed to get to top of the hill and they would be cleared to roll. This allowed some teams to have their first true roll-arounds of the season. At the end of the morning, sweepstakes took over the backhills for some tired pushers and got a chance to push. Many remarks of “I am so out of shape” or “I forgot how heavy buggies are sometimes” were heard from some quickly exhausted committee persons.<\/p>\n

Incidents:<\/strong><\/p>\n