Would be easy to move the drop lines to the center of the road or at least to lane 1. I’m not sure if there is a width spec on the drop zone, there may need to be one.

Explore how to remove water molecules from cold asphalt surfaces in a timely manner. Present this problem to the entire
CMU Community to research develop and implement on the part of the winning selection. White papers required. Solutions could be to the order of 1. “provide fifty (50) Stihl high velocity leaf blowers via a community of home owners ‘on call if it rains’. 2. Explore a heat generating super blower device and or plural devices to evap H2O
sample conceptual design element: heat ejection horizontal wand should be the width of the 2 lanes possibly wider to dry out adjacencies
This suggested problem resultant from April 2025 buggy sweepstakes washout. CMU has enough in-house campus and alumni talent to dissect this evap issue and short of a huge rainstorm engineer the water removal off the course in a timely manner. Just think of all the time and effort wasted [due to wet asphalt] in everything from UHAUL truck rental expenses, out of town alumni attending for naught at a considerable expense (myself from Mystic Connecticut) only to view a very limited sweepstakes late morning start on Friday. A solution to the asphalt rain water is possible. The evap of water molecules can certainly without question be accelerated. The question becomes how best. The excellent student brainpower with group colloboration can “and will” solve this issue. Create a competition as buggy has become. Thank you.
Dexter Murphy PE Alumni Class of 1973

But why? What’s the problem you’re trying to solve for? Admittedly, I wasn’t there, but from the first photo in this report, it seems like it was well scheduled as to which orgs were rolling together. To me, having two teams pair up in both of their slots seems like a great way to get more rolls in, because it means the roll order is essentially only 5 teams long, rather than 10 – so each team is rolling every 20 minutes instead of every 40 minutes.

Also, while I appreciate the scare tactics that come from writing “WHOLE FLEET” in all caps, in reality the pairings seem to be an org with 1 buggy rolling with an org with multiple buggies. So it’s really just tacking one extra buggy on to the larger org’s fleet. Also, based on the photos, it doesn’t look like there was ever more than 5 buggies rolling in a single slot – even that Apex/Fringe/Spirit one. So it’s not even like a situation of “this slot had too many buggies and slowed things down!” issue… CIA and Fringe have each rolled 5 buggies by themselves on single days this year

The “flagger confusion” also seems a bit disingenuous. For years now, teams have been sharing flaggers at Rolls. It’s pretty easy to just tell your flaggers “FYI, you flag from when the first buggy approaches until you see the follow car”.

The change Sweeps made for truck weekend, to limit it just to buggies needing to qualify, makes sense because that should be given a priority. But the weekend before truck, EVERYONE still needed to qualify, and changing mid-day to go from “these 2 teams are rolling together – see the whiteboard” to suddenly and arbitrarily “these teams aren’t rolling together” seems like it would create MORE chaos, not less.

But also, who cares? If students want to pair up, let them pair up. If they don’t, they don’t have to. It’s been a long time practice – just think of the years a SigNu or an SAE basically did roll-arounds, pairing with whichever team was up at that moment to roll so they could come out on Truck Weekend, get 15 rolls in, and qualify.

Combining 3-4 single-buggy teams into one “roll” or tacking them on to the end of another team seems sensible because it saves time not waiting for each single buggy and follow car to clear the course completely vs sending buggy, buggy, buggy, follow car, wait. However it’s confusing for the flaggers who don’t know which team’s buggy is coming in what order within that roll. And if there’s an incident, 3 teams have to deal with their buggies scattered around the course, which takes 3 times longer to clean up.

“Everybody goes twice” just makes the order take twice as long, and everyone ends up in the same place.
Once relaxing the roll count requirement was on the table, why cause chaos while trying to hit an arbitarary target? Just run the normal order everyone understands and lower the requirements if it turns out to be impossible for most of the field to meet them.