Friends of BAFS/Slackers

[cvcalhoun]

Every year, we have some people who have played before and want to join the the social events/pointless prizes/etc., but don’t want to be on a team and compete for points. They used to be called Slackers, and are now called Friends of BAFS.

If you want to be one, the instructions are simple. Do not register. Instead:

1. Join the BAFS Strava team, and
2. Authorize Freezing Saddles to read your miles.
3. Sign up for our mailing list.
4. After you sign up for our mailing list, you will receive an e-mail asking you to click on a link to confirm your willingness to receive e-mails from us. (That e-mail may go to your spam, “Social,” “Promotions,” etc. mailbox.) Please find it and click on it. If you can’t find it, you can send me a private message and I can confirm you manually.

That’s it. As soon as teams are assigned, you will appear on the Friends of BAFS list which appears in the drop-down list under “People.” And you will also get emails about things like happy hours.

[BobCochran]

An elegant solution.

[josh]

Why are they called friends? Slacker seems a much more appropriate term.

[rcannon100]

[cvcalhoun]

@josh 202707 wrote:

Why are they called friends? Slacker seems a much more appropriate term.

It’s all Greenbelt’s fault. One year, he decided to be a Slacker. At that time, the Slackers appeared on the leaderboard as if they were another team. Greenbelt rode so many miles that the Slackers were actually ahead of at least one other team at various points during the competition. So referring to him as a Slacker just didn’t seem appropriate. Plus, it was embarrassing for the other team to be even worse than Slackers.

[rcannon100]

@cvcalhoun 202715 wrote:

It’s all Greenbelt’s fault. One year, he decided to be a Slacker. At that time, the Slackers appeared on the leaderboard as if they were another team. Greenbelt rode so many miles that the Slackers were actually ahead of at least one other team at various points during the competition. So referring to him as a Slacker just didn’t seem appropriate. Plus, it was embarrassing for the other team to be even worse than Slackers.

Actually the actual story is FAR WORSE than that. It’s pretty much Vin’s fault. And it was by far the best giggle that ever happened during Freezing Saddles.

(For the record, Team Slacker always said “dont put us on the leaderboard.” That was the very thing Slackers were skipping)

[sjclaeys]

@rcannon100 202708 wrote:

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[rcannon100]

@sjclaeys 202718 wrote:

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[cvcalhoun]

@rcannon100 202716 wrote:

Actually the actual story is FAR WORSE than that. It’s pretty much Vin’s fault. And it was by far the best giggle that ever happened during Freezing Saddles.

(For the record, Team Slacker always said “dont put us on the leaderboard.” That was the very thing Slackers were skipping)

Well, now that you’ve said that, you need to tell us the far worse story!

[rcannon100]

Well. The Mean-Girls* can correct me. And for all I know I am getting this horribly wrong.

Not long ago, in the distant past, we squabbled about “Team Slackers.” Team Slackers was specifically supposed to be people who wanted to play reindeer games but not compete for miles. The people on Team Slackers and its captain were very happy with the arrangement.

But even tho the people who were on Team Slackers were happy, others… were not. For thousands of reasons. And the short of it was, it was very patronizing.

In the kerfluffle, Team Slackers got put on the leaderboard even tho we had asked not to be. And we didnt care. We were not competing.

But the Mean Girls saw a loop hole in the game. the Mean-Girls ride beastly miles. And they did not compete in the Freezing Saddles team competition. So all of there strava winter miles were building up…. but invisible to the FS leader board.

But they knew, nothing stopped them from joining Team Slacker.

So….. the day before the end of the competition, the Mean-Girls joined Team Slacker en masse. This put Team Slacker in first place by like 4x miles on the leader board.

I thought it was hilarious. It was the true spirit of Freezing Saddles. It was a good joke. And it meant nothing. The #1 team was still #1 – its just that Team Slackers had pulled a funny one – and just ignore it.

Oh but did it piss people off. And I am sure telling the story, someone will step up and say how awful it was.

Freezing Saddles is a game. That’s all it is. It was always meant to be fun. The Mean Girls reminded us of that. I thought it was simply wonderful.

* That is the name Pete Beers game them, so there!

[SarahBee]

@rcannon100 202733 wrote:

Well. The Mean-Girls* can correct me. And for all I know I am getting this horribly wrong.

Not long ago, in the distant past, we squabbled about “Team Slackers.” Team Slackers was specifically supposed to be people who wanted to play reindeer games but not compete for miles. The people on Team Slackers and its captain were very happy with the arrangement.

But even tho the people who were on Team Slackers were happy, others… were not. For thousands of reasons. And the short of it was, it was very patronizing.

In the kerfluffle, Team Slackers got put on the leaderboard even tho we had asked not to be. And we didnt care. We were not competing.

But the Mean Girls saw a loop hole in the game. the Mean-Girls ride beastly miles. And they did not compete in the Freezing Saddles team competition. So all of there strava winter miles were building up…. but invisible to the FS leader board.

But they knew, nothing stopped them from joining Team Slacker.

So….. the day before the end of the competition, the Mean-Girls joined Team Slacker en masse. This put Team Slacker in first place by like 4x miles on the leader board.

I thought it was hilarious. It was the true spirit of Freezing Saddles. It was a good joke. And it meant nothing. The #1 team was still #1 – its just that Team Slackers had pulled a funny one – and just ignore it.

Oh but did it piss people off. And I am sure telling the story, someone will step up and say how awful it was.

Freezing Saddles is a game. That’s all it is. It was always meant to be fun. The Mean Girls reminded us of that. I thought it was simply wonderful.

* That is the name Pete Beers game them, so there!

Where is the flipping Elite button???

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[Henry]

@rcannon100 202733 wrote:

Oh but did it piss people off. And I am sure telling the story, someone will step up and say how awful it was.

[/I]

Reminds me of the Great Sand Bag kerfuffle the Gainesville, FL team pulled in the National Bike Challenge a few years back. But then, Florida men gonna Florida.

Henry

[Smitty2k1]

Glad to be part of Team Slacker this year. If anyone wants to bring me in as a ringer to boost your team’s miles all you need to do is hire me a nanny and I’ll bike in the middle of night or a Snow-Zilla for you.

[rcannon100]

Join Team Slacker on STRAVA.

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We’re just here for the Reindeer Games.

[cvcalhoun]

@rcannon100 203214 wrote:

Join Team Slacker on STRAVA.

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We’re just here for the Reindeer Games.

Just to be clear, as stated in the original post, the only way that they are going to show up as Friends of BAFS on freezingsaddles.com (at https://freezingsaddles.org/people/friends) will be if they

1. Join the BAFS Strava team, and
2. Authorize Freezing Saddles to read their miles.

Slackers aren’t actually a team, so nothing on freezingsaddles.org will pick up from the Team Slacker Strava club.

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