{"id":750,"date":"2010-02-25T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/?p=750"},"modified":"2010-02-25T09:00:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T14:00:47","slug":"thursday-poll-photofinish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2010\/02\/thursday-poll-photofinish\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Poll: Photo finish?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"Photo-finish\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/8\/81\/Pic_race_1_12192005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" \/> Now that we&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2010\/02\/raceday-timing-system-upgrade\/\">announced the plans for an entirely upgraded timing system<\/a> at raceday 2010, it&#8217;s time to take bets on how close the race is going to be this year. \u00a0Will our high-tech digital photo finish equipment come in handy to measure the fine line between 1st and 2nd, or will it be so much of a blowout that we could time this thing with an hourglass?<\/p>\n<p>For some perspective, the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/history\/raceday\">margins of victory in the men&#8217;s races<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3.95 sec SDC over Fringe<\/li>\n<li>0.15 sec PiKA over SDC<\/li>\n<li>3.21 sec PiKA over Fringe<\/li>\n<li>2.49 sec PiKA over PiKA B<\/li>\n<li>2.30 sec PiKA over Fringe<\/li>\n<li>1.65 sec PiKA B over Spirit<\/li>\n<li>1.28 sec PiKA over Fringe<\/li>\n<li>0.25 sec PiKA over Fringe<\/li>\n<li>0.83 sec Fringe over PiKA<\/li>\n<li>4.24 sec PiKA over Fringe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<div id=\"polls-7\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>How big will the margin of victory be in the 2010 men's races?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-7-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li>1 - 2 sec : closer than the 10 year average <small>(41%, 17 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 41%;\" title=\"1 - 2 sec : closer than the 10 year average (41% | 17 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>&lt; 1 sec : within a buggy length at the line <small>(34%, 14 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 34%;\" title=\"&amp;lt; 1 sec : within a buggy length at the line (34% | 14 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>2 - 4 sec : comfortable, but not gaudy <small>(20%, 8 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 20%;\" title=\"2 - 4 sec : comfortable, but not gaudy (20% | 8 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>&gt; 4 sec : blowout; total domination <small>(5%, 2 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 5%;\" title=\"&amp;gt; 4 sec : blowout; total domination (5% | 2 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Total Voters: <strong>41<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_7_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"2daffc8a2c\" \/>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that we&#8217;ve announced the plans for an entirely upgraded timing system at raceday 2010, it&#8217;s time to take bets on how close the race is going to be this year. \u00a0Will our high-tech digital photo finish equipment come in handy to measure the fine line between 1st and 2nd, or will it be so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","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=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}