{"id":998,"date":"2010-04-09T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/?p=998"},"modified":"2023-09-03T10:54:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T15:54:32","slug":"heats-are-selected-start-bidding-now-in-the-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2010\/04\/heats-are-selected-start-bidding-now-in-the-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Heats are selected; Start bidding now in the auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: right;\" href=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.smugmug.com\/2008-2009\/Raceday-Finals-Mens\/i-w46t76V\/A\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"giThumbnail alignright\" style=\"margin: 3px;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2008-2009\/Raceday-Finals-Mens\/i-w46t76V\/0\/b8c5dcf0\/Th\/DSC_0236-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n55 teams will contest this year&#8217;s men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s races, up 5 from last year. \u00a0That&#8217;s what we like to see. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/about\">Mission #3 of the buggy alumni association<\/a> coming up spades. \u00a0Even though we&#8217;re up 5 teams, there will be only 19 heats which is 6 fewer than last year. \u00a0The trick is that since <a href=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2009\/05\/more-paving-this-time-hill-1\/\">hill 1 was repaved this summer<\/a>, buggy can once again use all three lanes and set up some action-packed heats.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the heats are settled and it is 9am Friday morning, the auction is open for bids! \u00a0Head right on over to<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/auction\">http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/auction<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>and get in on the action. \u00a0Remember &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the <a href=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2010\/03\/lead-truck-auction-2010-2-jumbotrons\/\">first $1,000 we raise goes straight to the jumbotrons<\/a>. \u00a0If we can&#8217;t contribute our piece, they won&#8217;t be back next year<\/li>\n<li>every auction-winning bid gets <strong>doubled<\/strong> thanks to a <a href=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2010\/04\/2000-matching-donation-for-the-baa\/\">super amazing pledge from an anonymous buggy lover<\/a>. \u00a0Help us make the most of this opportunity and max out the $2,000 they have pledged.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and the heats are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: There were \u00a0few last minute changes to the heats which are now marked in\u00a0orange &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phikap will not be entering a Men&#8217;s C<\/li>\n<li>CIA C moved from lane 2 to lane 3 in Men&#8217;s heat 2<\/li>\n<li>CIA A moved from heat 7 to heat 6<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/pub?key=0AuJqrzitvsWSdHY1WXBPeTVjRVdJYk9iNGhMWjh4Wnc&amp;single=true&amp;gid=0&amp;output=html&amp;widget=true\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nTrivia question that I don&#8217;t have time to look up: When was the last time PiKA didn&#8217;t have the first seed? Bonus points for the last time they were down in 3rd seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>55 teams will contest this year&#8217;s men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s races, up 5 from last year. \u00a0That&#8217;s what we like to see. \u00a0Mission #3 of the buggy alumni association coming up spades. \u00a0Even though we&#8217;re up 5 teams, there will be only 19 heats which is 6 fewer than last year. \u00a0The trick is that since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buggy-alumni-association","category-general-interest-buggy-stuff","category-sweepstakes-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","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=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9331,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/9331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}