To celebrate the awesomeness of FIVE YEARS of Giant Snail Racing in Second Life this show included all kinds of tech issues and problems - a fitting tribute to the races of yesteryear and all the crazy fun. Congratulations to RacerX Gullwing for his amazing talent and dedication.
Reply from RacerX Gullwing on 23 April 2010.
Yes lets do that!! It could go on for hours though if we let everyone show of every variation of there snails though.
Were you going to film it? I don't want to do it unless theirs going to be a record of it.
Reply from Wiz Nordberg on 25 April 2010.
Of course we'll film it! In fact, that was my whole point.... to really make it a big deal, with total video coverage, just like a real fashion show, and every snail with a great outfit can flirt with the audience and really ham it up.
Reply from Wiz Nordberg on 27 April 2010.
The runway is beautiful!
OK, so now we need to schedule the show. I wonder if all the snails have any opinion about the date. I'd say we should plan out at least 3 weeks or 4 to get the planning right and all the snails signed up, get a commentator, etc.
Thoughts?
Reply from RacerX Gullwing on 27 April 2010.
well 3 weeks puts it on the next RFL race so 4 weeks might be better
Reply from RacerX Gullwing on 5 May 2010.
I added some stuff now it's fancier.
better runway The Dates been set were doing this the 22nd this month so we need to start getting a list together on who wants to be in this If you have some Snail designs you want to be in this put your name on here.
Reply from RacerX Gullwing on 7 March 2010.
Well were at Hawthorne NOW. Like it or not Firesabre needs to close their sims to the public tomorrow. Anyway I'll still be allowed in to grab everything we need to get the track moved to Hawthorne. Were not getting a couple weeks to build a new track. So well be using that test track till we rebuild. This should be interesting. Well be getting the land terraformed soon then we can start trying to adjust the track around to fit the terrain.
Reply from Gareth8 Albatros on 8 March 2010.
Just as well we had had a test then :)
One thing I meant to mention was the scoreboard lag. I touched it and it moved me to my starting position straight away, but it took ages to offer me a scarf and my name wouldn't appear. I didn't know whether to wait for it, or touch it again. I thought that would mean I'd have to wait even longer. Anyway, tried touching it about 8 times and it eventually appeared :)
Reply from Gareth8 Albatros on 20 February 2010.
Like the idea of spectators hooking into the treet cam; sounds cool :) and I guess being on the mainland *and* on the ground means more people will discover the track and the races, which can only be a good thing!
Oh, and no more danger of falling off the course, either...which I'll miss, in a way :)
Reply from RacerX Gullwing on 21 February 2010.
Well we only managed to get around 25 Avatars to come and do the test race at Hawthorne. It seemed to go really well but we often get closer to 40 Avatars at actual races and I think everyone knows that the difference between 25 and 40 avatars in a sim is pretty major. So we really need to figure out how to get at least 35 avatars to the test and see if everything still works.
Reply from Gareth8 Albatros on 22 February 2010.
How about we put an appeal out for volunteers out on the official forum? They seem quite a friendly bunch on there :)
Alternatively, if anyone knew a large, easy-going group maybe they could put out an appeal in a group IM. Might be a danger of being kicked out for spamming, though.
As a last resort we could bribe newbies at welcome areas :)
Reply from RacerX Gullwing on 22 February 2010.
Well next week were going to try to take everyone to the new course before the Saturday races for a test while we still have nearly 40 people there. If all goes well the following week well do an official race at the new course. If that goes OK well start work on a brand new course there in Hawthorne and hopefully have it ready to go a few weeks after that.
Reply from waelya Tenk on 9 February 2010.
One of the best final of races i saw it! great great final race!, so sad Tindy was going to win her first final race.. and in last last moment... from the top of the ramp...
http://treet.tv/shows/snailraces/clips/giantsnails6feb10
you can see first she bounce with a small fireball maybe... and then a cow hit she hard hard while she was floating in air... sending she down... just 5 seconds more and she was going to cross goal... anyway good done Tindy! next week!
and i agree yes!! congrats you all making a really nice show!!
Reply from Gareth8 Albatros on 12 February 2010.
Hello all :)
I still can't quite believe how I managed to win that race; coming out of the maze I was in sixth position! Then things went in my favour: Poor Tindallia was knocked off the ramp; Waelya suffered piston failure, as did Spoof; Baldi and Maximus both decided to go straight up the ramp, and I had no choice except to cross my fingers and try the piston, which worked for me.
I'm not sure I'll be that lucky again; I must have used a season's worth in that race alone :)
Reply from waelya Tenk on 12 February 2010.
yay Gareth! cross the goal in first position not always easy!! you maked a nice great final race at the hell! congrats!
Reply from RacerX Gullwing on 28 April 2010.
Look were on the map!!
this should be sticky how do I do that?
Reply from Wiz Nordberg on 11 February 2010.
Racer, RFL is important, you might want to blog about it. Remember that you are a VIP blogger and that means they appear on the front page. Or maybe we should create a forum for it. HMMM.... maybe I will do that.
Ok well get you the finished trophy then good call on not finishing. But you could a finished just not in the top 3, everyone after that got the same trophy.