27 Jan Results

Giant snail race in Montmartre on 2008-01-27

http://slcn.tv/media/snails_023_26jan08.mp4

All racers: Final Race

eeyore Maximus
Ford Roffo
waelya Tenk
Beavis Beckham
Kiwi Alfa
Josu Tenk

Places:

1. Josu Tenk
2. Kiwi Alfa
3. Beavis Beckham
4. eeyore Maximus
5. waelya Tenk

19 Jan Results

Giant snail race in Montmartre on 2008-01-19

http://slcn.tv/media/snails_022_19jan08.mp4

All racers: first race

Shadow105252 Dyrssen
Oodlemi Noodle
Kiboe Munro
Mango Birdbrain
Iridescent Coronet

Places:

1. Mango Birdbrain
2. Oodlemi Noodle
3. Iridescent Coronet

All racers: second race

Bloodsong Termagant
Josu Tenk
waelya Tenk
Beavis Beckham
Kiwi Alfa

Places:

1. Josu Tenk
2. Bloodsong Termagant
3. waelya Tenk
4. Beavis Beckham
5. Kiwi Alfa

All racers: Final Race

Mango Birdbrain
Iridescent Coronet
Bloodsong Termagant
Oodlemi Noodle
waelya Tenk
Josu Tenk


Places:

1. Josu Tenk
2. Mango Birdbrain
3. waelya Tenk
4. Bloodsong Termagant
5. Iridescent Coronet

12 Jan Results

Giant snail race in Montmartre on 2008-01-12

http://slcn.tv/media/snails_021_12jan08.mp4



All racers: first race

eeyore Maximus
Kiboe Munro
Josu Tenk
Kito Kyong
florenze Kerensky

Places:

1. Josu Tenk
2. florenze Kerensky
3. eeyore Maximus
4. Kiboe Munro
5. Kito Kyong


All racers: second race

Oodlemi Noodle
Bloodsong Termagant
waelya Tenk
Kiwi Alfa
Liv Leigh

Places:

1. Bloodsong Termagant
2. Kiwi Alfa
3. waelya Tenk
4. Oodlemi Noodle
5. Liv Leigh


All racers: Final Race

waelya Tenk
eeyore Maximus
Josu Tenk
Kiwi Alfa
Bloodsong Termagant
florenze Kerensky

Places:

1. Kiwi Alfa
2. waelya Tenk
3. Josu Tenk
4. Bloodsong Termagant
5. eeyore Maximus

5 Jan Results

Giant snail race in Montmartre on 2008-01-05

no film on this yet

All racers: race1

Kiboe Munro
Balls Maggs
Vegas Lilliehook
Ford Roffo
eeyore Maximus

Places:

1. eeyore Maximus
2. Balls Maggs
3. Vegas Lilliehook
4. Kiboe Munro

All racers: race2

Kiwi Alfa
Liv Leigh
waelya Tenk
Oodlemi Noodle
Josu Tenk
Beavis Beckham

Places:

1. Kiwi Alfa
2. Beavis Beckham
3. Oodlemi Noodle
4. waelya Tenk
5. Josu Tenk
6. Liv Leigh


All racers: final race

Oodlemi Noodle
Kiwi Alfa
Balls Maggs
Beavis Beckham
Vegas Lilliehook
eeyore Maximus

Places:

1. Beavis Beckham
2. Oodlemi Noodle
3. Kiwi Alfa
4. eeyore Maximus
5. Vegas Lilliehook

Snail Racing History



It all started with a contest called Giant Avatar contest I saw was coming up in a few days back when events were only a few a day and finding them was easy. I went to the sandox where you could usally work for about 30 minutes at a time between sim crashes and started ataching prims to my feet but that didn't make you any taller just made prims that went into the ground. So I thought about it and figured the way I'd have to do this is be in the foot. I didn't have a clue how to script legs to move and back then movment scripts didn't work in avatars anyway . Narrowed it down a bit to a one footed animal . The shell was maxed out at 30 meters or maybe I just remeber it that big . thing is I din't have a clue how to see out of that so had to stop a lot an cam outside the shell to see where I was.
It was hillariose I got to the contest about 20 minutes early and the guy holding it told me to please park off to the side somewhere I thought he was stearing me over there because I had obviosly won and he didn't wan to discourage the other avatars. Ends up I was the only one that took it him litereally and made a giant avatar. Well I didn't win.

I was in group called Montmartre Artists and we were trying to get on the most popular places list before camping chairs were invented and were each asked to come up with an event Mae Best had not another Quiz every other night it seemed like and that alone got us up to about 30th or so but not the top 20 anyway I was trying to come up with an event and talking to my good scripting friend and nighbor in fujin Catfart and he suggested giant snail racing. thats where it all started thats when I put together a better cuter av with blinky eyes that everyone loves and they havent changed much since. We did get into the top 20 a couple times.
It started on the ground using stone paths that that circled montmartre I made all the arrows and things needed for the race rez from a single prim and go find there spot in the sim just for the race then I'd go around after the race and shout the race is over and all of signs of the race track would vanish just leaving the stone path built by May Best they also went down the city streets of Chase Rutherford's manhattane in the Hawthorne sim an Aimee weber build at 8 pm on tuesday nights the thing that brought them to an end was mostly due to the phisics in sl where if you can find something to trip over you can fall a lot faster than anyone can run. Also once you get into that falling state you can close chat bar and hold the space bar down and get yourself to glide a long ways.

So I moved the race up into the sky onto a perfectly flat surface where there is nothing you can trip over. Same time Seifert Surface was experimenting with a transportation system that would use push and throw you across the map. He had set this set of flingers up at the future sim just one Sim south of Montmartre and owned by Chase Rutherford.

In fact I Used his experiments as the track I just built the course around them. the race stayed in the future sim as it changed hands to Gus Plisskin who said it was welcome to stay as long as I wanted to have it there. But the sim slowly filled to capacity and had a lot of scripts going and the flingers stopped working consistently and the sport became more of a luck thing but eventually become an endurance race. I got Seifert Surface to give me a copy of his experiments and carefully packed it all into a prim and moved it all back to where it started from Montmatre.

Also if you go to http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/ and look search using the tag snail race you can see 99 percent of that history there. The snail race is only a few months older than snapzilla. Snail races will be three years old at the end of november and have been held every saturday but cancelled 2 or 3 about a year ago when I was very sick.


RacerX Gullwing

29 Dec Results

Giant snail race in Montmartre on 2007-12-29

sorry no video yet

All racers: race 1

florenze Kerensky
eeyore Maximus
Beavis Beckham
duckyfresh Watanabe

Places:

1. Beavis Beckham
2. eeyore Maximus
3. duckyfresh Watanabe
4. florenze Kerensky

All racers: race 2

Kumi Kuhr
waelya Tenk
Mango Birdbrain
Kiwi Alfa
Bloodsong Termagant

Places:

1. Bloodsong Termagant
2. waelya Tenk
3. Mango Birdbrain
4. Kumi Kuhr
5. Kiwi Alfa

All racers: final race

eeyore Maximus
Beavis Beckham
duckyfresh Watanabe
Bloodsong Termagant
waelya Tenk
Mango Birdbrain

Places:

1. Bloodsong Termagant
2. Beavis Beckham
3. eeyore Maximus
4. waelya Tenk
5. duckyfresh Watanabe
6. Mango Birdbrain