Scenes From the Sunbeamers' Road Rally

For most teams in the Relay for Life in Second Life, the Relay Weekend marks the end of their activity. But the Sunbeamers had one last event: their Third Annual Road Rally. Participants both in and outside the Sunweaver community dropped by to burn some rubber, or just watch and/or donate some cash. Besides the excitement of the competition, there was also excitement in the air over the team being close to the coveted Platinum level, which the Sunbeamers had yet to reach since the team was formed a few years ago. So who had the fastest wheels?

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Press Release: Sunbeamers Relay For Life 3rd Annual Road Rally Information

Welcome to the Sunbeamers Relay For life Road Rally at Farshore Field. The purpose of this rally is to raise money for the American Cancer Society through donations. Even though there is a trophy and prize this is to be a fun and entertaining event and not to be taken as a serious contest. The following information is on how the race is run and what is expected. Also the field will remain open to aircraft operations so feel free to fly in or fly over the race.

To enter into the race requires a donation into the kiosk in front of the officials stand, this can be any amount. We ask that you do so with the attention of an official so as you can be recorded for timekeeping. Officials will be in yellow Sunbeamers shirts with Race Official flip titles.

There are three classes of racing, Cars/trucks, Motorcycles, and What is that? You may enter all three.

There will be 5 laps per donation. Additional donation can gain you 5 more laps to better your time.

The race takes place on Saturday July 30, and starts at 8AM SLT. At 4PM SLT the rally is over and the fast time for each class receive a trophy and $500 Lindens.

*Addition, the Press Release did not originally include the day of the event*

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Scenes From Team Sunbeamer's Road Rally

Last weekend on Saturday June 27, Team Sunbeamer, the Relay for Life team of the Sunweaver and Angels communities, held their second annual Road Rally in the Pacific Waters sim. The event took place over several hours much of the day, involving quite a bit of car and motorcycle racing, as well as showing off some wheels. The one with the winning lap took home a prize. But more importantly, this was the event that got the Relay team into Gold level.

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Press Release: Relay For Life Team Sunbeamers 2nd Annual Farshore Field Road Rally

    Team Sumbeamers welcome you to the Relay For Life 2nd annual Farshore Field Road Rally. The event will be on Saturday 27th June 2015 located on  Pacific Waters (77, 87, 31). This year the track is much longer and filled with twist and turns. There are even a few road hazards. The result is you will need to rely on skill rather than speed. The rally will have two classes consisting of Cars/Trucks and Motorcycles. You can race in both and the best time in 5 laps is taken. Racing starts at 8AM SLT and runs until 4PM SLT where afterwards the times are tallied and trophies given.

Questions can be sent to Cynthia Farshore via IM, notecards, or used the phone located inside The Puddle Jumper Mall located on the field.

Team Sunbeamer Relay For Life Updates

Team Sunbeamer, the team for the Sunweaver/Angels community for the Relay for Life, is going to have another fundraising event soon. This time it's a race at the Pacific Waters sim around Farshore Field.

Speaking with Cynthia Farshore, she told me she was roughly about halfway finished with the track, which will include a corkscrew turn, obstacles that have a way of appearing just after a driver clears a turn, and a wandering turtle that can cause a bike to jump in the air as riders zoom over it's shell.

In the past, there was a motorbike-themed Relay team that held racing events regularly. This time, there hasn't been one. So the event is likely to get more attention from racing fans.

The Sunbeamer Road Rally is scheduled for June 27. Cynthia acknowledges this puts the event during the Second Life Birthday megaevent, but raising funds for cancer takes priority.

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On another note, the Relay Committee approved the Sunbeamer's request for a campsite, but there was an interesting twist, which Rita Mariner explained in brief in an announcement.

Sunnies/Beamers; Our RFL Team has been approved for a Large Campsite, ON the Water Sim?!?  If that means underwater, We are all going to DROWN!  LOL, I think we can adapt!

So this means some changes of plans for Team Sunbeamer's Relay Weekend exhibit. But when I overheard Shockwave Yareach chatting about it at a Club Cutlass event, he was confident it wouldn't be much trouble.

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As of the writing of this article, Team Sunbeamers has raised about 205,000 Lindens, sixth place among the Silver ranked teams. So to help things along, yours truly is throwing down a couple "avatar challenges," in the spirit of the traditional "Bid Me Bald" events. When Team Sunbeamers reaches Gold Level, about 250,000, yours truly will wear a purple otter avatar for a week when in public.

Should the Sunbeamers reach Platinum rank, 500,000 Lindens, well that calls for a more substantial challenge. Yours truly will take the form of a MLP pony avatar, which I've never (and I mean never) worn, and keep that for about a week as well in public.

So if you want to make me "horse around," you'll have to "pony up" some Lindens to Team Sunbeamer. And one "otter" know I'll do it.

Bixyl Shuftan

Sunbeamers Make Gold!

Today, Saturday July 12, the Sunbeamer Team finally reached the 250,000 Linden mark, and with it Gold status among the Relay teams. The team made the amount during Cynthia Farshore's "Road Rally and Fly-In" event with a generous 35,000 Linden donation from Raschid Marenwolf.