Well today is Thursday and MassiveLAN is just 1 week away for us staff, and 1 week + 1 day for the rest of you. I can't believe how pumped I am for this year, as is all of us at MLP. We definitely are going to be breaking some records this year. We've got some awesome minigames planned for this year… some old and some new, some we did a few years ago and a couple just thought of.
Of course there's the chair race. For those of you newbies who have never done it before, here are some guidelines/rules:
- Each team has 2 members, one pusher and one sitter.
- Chairs must have 5 wheels.
- Chairs must have only 1 point of contact from the seat of the chair to the wheel base.
- There cannot be any artificial strengthening of a chair's wheelbase with the exception of tape. Allowed tapes are: duct, packaging, electrical, scotch, masking, and painters tape.
- There must be arms on the chair and they may not be removed.
- After-market screws are perfectly legit.
- No modifications may be made to change the swivel-ability of the chair, however the swivel lock is allowed to be engaged during the race but it must be the lock that came with the chair.
- Enhancing your top speed or acceleration with streamers, paint, crayons, markers, highlighters, colored-tape and glitter are not only allowed, they're encouraged.
- Wheels on the chair may not be replaced with after-market wheels… they must be the original packaged wheels.
- Wheels may be lubricated or greased at your own risk.
- You may not remove any piece of the chair to reduce its weight, parts that happen to have gone missing from years of sitting or abuse is legal. However if you are found "applying age" in the parking lot or something your chair will be disqualified. (this does not override rule #5)
- Practice runs are encouraged, however don't pretend to know what the course is, we usually don't know until about 10 minutes before hand.
- The only means that may be used to move the chair are by the person pushing the chair. Pushing is defined as a person, wearing no artificial electronics or bionic modifications, using their feet to walk and or run while having their hands attached to the chair.
