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The idea of Global Gutz is to have
a live traffic alley cat race in
lots of cities all over the world, starting simultaneously, e.g. at 1
p.m. in San Francisco, and 4 p.m. in New York, etc. and held
over a
given distance and a given amount of checkpoints in an effort to try to
make race conditions as equal as possible for everyone. This way we can
have a world wide competition without spending a lot of money for
traveling somewhere. Everyone will just be racing in their hometown
knowing that in various cities around the world there are messengers
racing with or against them, and the first male and female competitors
of the two hemispheres to finish will be the lucky winners.
Why is this idea
so fresh? First of all, it doesn't take much of an effort to organize.
Then, everybody gets to stay home and still race in an international
competition, and finally we all have the chance to be part of something
greater than our daily strive and maybe win and be the fastest in your
city or the world.
One fact proved
difficult in the first global gutz: we couldn't find a format to allow
for everybody to race at a decent time (i.e. either the Australians or
the U.S. west coast would have had to start early in the morning). This
made us think that we should have two "time zones"
This year the
cities can choose between 2 time zones to race.
Time
zone 1 is on Saturday April 19. Start time for New York would be 8 am.
Start time for London would be 1 pm. Start time for Sydney would be 10
pm.
Time
zone 2 is on Sunday April 20. Start time for New York would be 4 pm.
Start time for London would be 9 pm.
Cities can choose which
time zone is best for them.
Cities are
encouraged to post their course online so that we
can see each others courses. A simple course via gmaps will do. Send the map
link to mima@messmedia.org (But don't make your course
map public until after the race)
Setting up a
Global Gutz race in your hometown is simple. See the rules
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