RacerX Gullwing's Blog

Hey Humans your invited to a Giant Snail Wedding. Though me and Safra became partners last RFL in July we had never done the formal wedding. So on Our Valentines show I decided we should and proposed to Safra. Well this Saturday is the day!!! RacerX in a Snail TuxRacerX in a Snail Tux There will also be much snail racing. We moved to SATURDAY same time 11:00 AM http://slurl.com/secondlife/Devon%20Dream/148/99/777 Hope to see you there.
Also we have room for some new snails if anyone wants to try it.

Every month we try to get off the main course and try something new. Well this week we going to race in the snow sims of the Global Online Hockey Association sims. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Neutral%20Zone/127/133/26 Snails at GOHASnails at GOHA the slurl is here the snail arrows will be popping up soon should be a lot of fun. Want to try it go get a snail from the track. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Devon%20Dream/143/99/777 the theme this week is hockey.

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Well it's that time of year again the Skybeam sims have been around for 5 years now So the snails are here to help celebrate. We have a new longer route this year Charlene Trudeau has really gone through some extensive revamping of the route and found a way to make the race through the 25 sims twice as long, Were doing 2 laps this time. So twice the fun!
http://slurl.com/secondlife/SkyBeam%20Wood/142/132/21

I still say were the longest running running weekly event in Second Life!! We've been doing it since this week in 2004. 3 years before Treet found us. We'll this Sunday we turn 7 and there will be tons of cake this year. 7th Birthday Cake7th Birthday Cake
Especially since we can finally stretch every prim to 64 meters, We rebuilt the cake to new massive proportions. There will be explosions and snail races and well see if our brave daredevil Snail Dude will finally splash safely into the water filled bucket.
Here's your invitation!
WHO: YOU!!! Your invited to the Race Party
WHEN: 11:00 AM Sunday 11/27 SL time PST
WHERE: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Devon%20Dream/146/102/777

Hi This week on Giant Snail Racing were all set to do our 200th Episode on Treet.TV We did a lot of races before treet found us so really were closer to 350 I think but 200 filmed races is quite a few and we've come a long way since treet first filmed us. The track was mostly things that flung you across the sim and a maze of arrows on the ground Early DaysEarly Days We really have come a long way since then mostly because of the filming. We needed to make a track that was a great visual and The people at Firesabre let us use more prims to make the show blossum into what its become today. Thanks to Tindallia Soothsayer we know have the entire track moded to each weeks theme and it's frozen in time and saved forever. Now were on Safras Nitely's Sim Devon Dream and have even more room to spread out.The Track Today Trick or TreatThe Track Today Trick or Treat

Well were doing something special this week in honor of the 200th episode. were having a little awards presentation in the middle where were going to honor the people that dress up as giant snails and have made this all possible. So get your Halloween on and join us or wait for the show to apear sometime soon on treet were at Devon Dream starts at 10:45 ends probably around 12:15 Live, The Treet version will be shorter. Two less races. See you there! And A big THANK YOU Treet.TV for letting us be on your channel.

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The Giant Snails are coming back to the Elf sims this Month. The Elf sims were the very first place we ever had a race not on the regular course, many years ago. So in a way they invented the road trip races and it's great to be back!

We hope to make this race as wacky and crazy as we've ever had what with the Elves 1500+ members we may end up with more participants than we've ever had before from the local community were racing through. Well be on the horse trail and it's not an easy path to follow check this out the map and the markers are here to the left of the map try to aim for the blue sidethe elf mapthe elf map http://slurl.com/secondlife/ElvenGlen/114/186/45 go have a look.

Season 5 Starts Sunday for the Giant Snail Races.If you want to try snail racing come on down to the track and try the tutorial or click on the Waelyas school of snails sign. Or IM RacerX Gullwing Well try to get you set up but be warned you need a great pc and a fast isp to be competitive. But it's also about the fun of racing and winning isn't everything we also have a competition each week for best of theme snail each week. Where you take our full perm snail and mod it to go with the weeks theme. So were all about art too.

Oh and fun and who knows the way sl works stuff fails all the time anyone can end up winning with some luck. we can also use spectators because whats a snail race without some people to watch so come on out any Sunday at 10:45 get razzed and catch the fire works before we get started at 11:00 AM for about an hour of Snail Racing craziness. Were at Devon Dream/150/102/777

The Giant Snails are leaving Hawthorne I deleted the course a couple hours ago. No tears though we have a brand new course set up at Devon Dream. Thanks to Safra Nitley For letting us have almost a whole sim of space at 777 meters up http://slurl.com/secondlife/Devon%20Dream/153/103/777 The new course is Diabolical we saved the best parts of the old course and made them even better and there is a few new things too. Race Trak at Devon DreamRace Trak at Devon Dream
Were still firing a cow at the gate to start the race then there's a choice of the road or chance a spring to get you to the top of the shark tank then across the bouncy balls to a small stretch of traffic jammed road to the 3 sets of toll booths collecting money to someday finish the bridge over the small town of Snail A Topia, So till it's done were using a spring or 2 to get you to the top of bouncy shroom mountain then it's off to the maze on steroids yes same moving maze but since we had room we made it huge snail size then a choice of spring or take the ramp with cows boulders and lava balls only now you can't just hug the sides and duck if you do you'll fall because now the whole ramp is moving back and fourth yes this is the best track so far people are saying. Well should be great fun see ya there every Saturday 9:00am for practice and 11:00 am Sunday for the real races.

On April 17th The biggest best most spectacular Giant Snail Race ever Is Happening and hopefully every single Relay team will be represented. We will be crossing 51 sims running down the streets of Second Life with all the many built in obstacles like those damn hit and run Driver less cars that run you over and just keep on going, The Many Bridges built right on the sim borders that let you fall through just when you think you made it to the other side, The combination info hub and shelter sim of Isabele that will probably be full that day and force us to find our own way around it, And of course the crazy amount of lag that a hundred snails will create trying to just move through them crashing and lagging off into space.
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Treet TV and a few others have put up 25,000 Linden prize to the RFL team
that places closest to first. This prize is for any other team!! good luck to all the other teams your Awesome!! Go relay!!!

The theme this time is Spring If you make a to theme Snail contact RacerX Gullwing when it's done and well try to get it it Pre filmed for the race so when everything goes wrong and no cameras are aimed at the snails we can at least show off some of your great snails. as a last ditch effort we will try to get these on race day an hour or so before the race. but help us out here and get them done early so we can get a few filmed before the madness begins. ok even more information look here http://treet.tv/forums/relay-life/topics/giant-snail-cross-country-relay... or contact RacerX Gullwing.

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The theme is 50's Bobby-socks poodle skirts etc.
This is a fun cup race!!
Everyone's welcome. No experience necessary. The arrows are on the road Here is a link to the start. Head west from there.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/New%20port/50/126/35/?title=start%...
Go have a look. lots of corners the fun starts at 12:00 Sunday if you need a snail Avatar head for the finish line.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/north%20channel/170/169/34/?title=...
The Snail is free. There is stuff there to help you make it your own too get the pimp my snail kit and the texture picker all free. contact RacerX Gullwing if you need any help.