@randomdan and I are planning to leave from my house at 6:30 AM with a carload of LUG stuff (i.e. no room for other people, sadly…) Does everyone else have their ride/carpool/load of MOCs figured out?
@zbauer is, if my understanding is correct, stopping at @JoshHall’s house tomorrow some time and picking up the racetrack, wheelbases for racecars, sign frame, business cards, and… hmm… what else can/should he take from Josh’s house?
My target is arrival at the library by 8AM, which allows an hour to load in, organize, and set up. RJ confirmed that they’ll have it open for us at 8 and that tables will already be set up for us.
As for staffing, we should have 8 people there all day, plus @dacvak in the morning and @timf in the afternoon. So I’d figure on something like this:
Station 1: Race Track (2 staffers, one to supervise building and one to run the track… maybe a third, as this one can get hectic)
Can just run races as people have cars ready, with no structure or elimination process… or we could try to make it progressive (i.e. – best cars get to face off once per hour, or something…)
Station 2: Build Challenges (2 staffers, maybe 3.)
Can perhaps alternate between Tallest Tower and Strongest Bridge, starting one each hour on the hour, or something.
TT we usually give people 15 minutes, then make them move their baseplate+tower to a different table to prove it has some structural integrity, then measure. Figure 30-40 minutes total for explanation, building, moving, measuring.
SB we usually give 15-20 minutes, then it takes a while to stack books and see when they break. This one could fill an hour easily.
Station 3: Free Build (1 staffer)
Could be combined with the Build Challenges, and just let people free build in between TT & SB rounds. Or keep it separate. I dunno.
Station 4: MOC tables (1-2 staffers)
We should have enough help that 1 or 2 people can be floating (or “on break”) at all times. I still think we go to lunch in 2 or 3 smaller groups, probably, so as to keep at least 4 or 5 people on site at any given time.
We could also rotate between the racing and other build challenges if we need to slow things down or whatever. (Like maybe during the lunch runs, we shut down one area if we feel like the remaining staffers are spread too thin.) But I think RJ said there will be volunteers handy to help keep things under control, so we probably will be just fine throughout if that’s the case.