Greek Week - Sled Race

Today was the first team event of Greek Week. All the teams showed up to race their improvised sleds in the Quad at the U of A. There were 3 rounds of races, and everyone gave a great effort!

I spent most of the day on Monday putting together our sled from materials found around the house. It ended up being a beer tub with a nylon rope tied to it, and 2 layers of poly-wrap on the bottom and sides held on with a combination of duct tape and packing tape.

Probably the best part of the sled was the decoration scheme. I had limited time to spend decorating, but managed to name the craft "U.S.S. Inevitable" in large letters on port side, adding 2 racing stripes on the starboard side, and a symbol on the back. The symbol was the masterpiece. It was a large Autobots symbol that I spent about a half hour drawing.

The rest of the decorations were handled by the lovely ladies of Delta Gamma just prior to the event. They wrote "Phi Delta Theta Falcon Sled" and "It's over 9000!!" to give us some internet meme references. They also added some plastic leaves.

Team 8 (Phi Delta Theta/Delta Gamma) went into the day in the lead with points from songfest the day before. After lubing up the bottom of the sled with vegetable oil, we participated and had a great effort in all three rounds. Although we didn't win, we did come second overall after an unfortunate turn of evens knocked us out of first place. The final round had something of a twist. Halfway through the regular course the teams had to light a sparkler that was being held by the person riding in the sled. Just prior to the home stretch we were ahead of the other team by a very small margin, but our sparkler turned out to be a dud and wouldn't light. After a couple of minutes in direct flame it finally went, and we finished strong and proud for second place.

Tomorrow's event is dodge ball in Lister at 5pm. Hopefully we'll even have some people out to cheer us on!

If you're on a team, and still haven't gotten the waiver signed, I have a scanned copy that you can print out and bring to the event.