Chamonix City

Gemma Cleanslate's winter activity articles are coming to a close, at least for now. But before she hung up her heavy winter coat in the storage closet, she headed to a place with plenty of cold-weather fun: Chamonix City. Named after the location of the world's first Winter Olympics, the location has a number of sports to try out from "hockey, snowboarding, cross country skiing, sledding, ice skating, and more."

Read Gemma's story in Places. 

Three Relay Events Today

Who Wants To Be A Superhero?

Who Wants To Be A Superhero? A Superhero Costume Party for Relay For Life of Second Life. Presented by Core Charities For Life. Are you a DC or Marvel? Justice League or Avengers? Green Lantern Corp or X-Men? Wear your favorite superhero costume and come by for some dancing and superhero music. Located on the roof of Warriors Bar and Grill. All donations go to Relay For Life of Second Life and the American Cancer Society.
Friday 6/3/2016 at 6:00 PM SLT

New OA (119, 178, 37)

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Annual Fuzz Day Event with Team ACTS

On June 3rd from 7-9pm SLT, Everyone is welcome to join Team ACTS as we celebrate the 50th  birthday of a huge celebrity - Marshal Fuzzball Oretga. The CAKE PARTY will be at Club Gearz.  

Port Caledon (67/189/23)

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Racing for the Cure!

It's a big event today at the GOHA Chamonix sims, where we'll be racing the first annual Buddy Forsythe 100!  Second life's best drivers are here and have been practicing for a month for this race, so come cheer on your favorite fundraising team and get a taste of Second Life's fastest sport!

The pre-race broadcast starts at 2:30 PM SLT while the drivers will be practicing, and then the race starts at 4:00 PM

Catch it at the fan sim at Cross Check, or check out the live youtube stream on race day!

Cross Check (140, 231, 3508)

Chamonix City Winter Games Delayed until December

In February, The East River Community Blog announced that Chamonix City would be hosting a "Winter Games" event, lasting from March 15 to the 22nd. And soon a series of areanas and tracks were constructed in the area for the event. Unfortunetly, as those who stopped by found out, there would be no games. First they were postponed a week, then it was announced they wouldn't be happening until next winter, in December.

As much as it pains me to have to say, the Winter Games are being postponed until December of this year. Initially, they had been postponed one week, due to some extenuating circumstances, but after much deliberation, they’ve been moved back to December. To be completely honest, I might have been too ambitious, with my initial date of mid-March. This being my first major event, I might have tried to rush things a bit. But I must say, people have really rallied around this concept, and we have got some really special things to show you for the Games.

So the event is a no-go, at least for now. In the meantime, there's a number of areas and courses for people to drop by and give a try, such as the snowboarding course.

Image Credit: Drewski

Hat tip: Daniel Voyager

Bixyl Shuftan

Two Events this Weekend: Winter Games and Cross-Sim Snail Race

Weekends in Second Life are full of events. Two sports events stand out.

One event in the Second Life Winter Games, set in the Chaminox City area. Daniel Voyager described them as, "you can sign up for exciting competitions such as snowboard races, curling, ski jumping, ice hockey, snowboard half-pipe, downhill ski races and much more." Taking a quick look at the place, the Second Life Hockey group, the GOHA is pretty big there. Some tracks, such as snowboarding, were open for people to try out.

Cross Check (99/95/22)

With the Relay season under way, there are plenty of Relay for Life events. Among them is RacerX Gullwing's "Giant Snail Cross Country Race." The race is open to all, with at least 500 Lindens required to enter. But for 2500L, one can start a little further ahead. The race will take place over a few dozen sims. While there isn't a prize, the winner gets bragging rights, plus his victory shown on SL tv.

The event takes place twice on March 15, at both 10:30 AM and 2PM SL time (here).

Winter Sports at Chamonix City

With winter getting closer, reporter Gemma Cleanslate found a place which winter sports are central to. Chamonix City, the place in Second Life that is a must see for skating and hockey fans.

Read the story in Places.