Want to be a Friend of BAFS?

[cvcalhoun]

Friends of BAFS are people who would like to participate in events, etc., but not compete as part of a team. In many instances, they are also permitted to participate in Pointless Prizes (although the rules for that are up to each sponsor of a Pointless Prize).

If you want to be a Friend of BAFS, you do not need to fill in the registration form. To be able to participate in the Freezing Saddles discussions here, you’ll need to:

1. Join this forum.
2. We recommend making at least one post in this forum, as that will ensure you have successfully registered. If you don’t have anything in particular to say, you can just introduce yourself in this thread.

If you want to appear on the list (which will appear only after team assignments) of Friends of BAFS (which will enable you to see your total points, even though you won’t appear on leaderboards, and to participate in Pointless Prizes to the extent the sponsor permits it), you’ll need to:

1. Join the BAFS 2025 Strava club.
2. Authorize Freezing Saddles to read your Strava miles.

If you do this before teams are assigned, you can check whether you did it correctly by seeing whether your name appears on this list. If you do it after teams are assigned, you can check whether you did it correctly by seeing whether your name appear on this list.

If you want to get e-mails regarding things like happy hours, you’ll need to:

1. Sign up for our mailing list.

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[lordofthemark]

To no one’s suprise, I wish to be a Friend of BAFS in 2025, as I was in 2024.

My contributions will be to do the Civil War Forts pointless prize, to argue with Steve patiently explain to Steve the benefit of the Friends leaderboard, and to discuss BAFS trivia, and all other trivia

[ltierstein]

I signed up to ride Freezing Saddles, but I would like to switch to being a Friend, to give someone else a chance to compete and join a team.  I didn’t see a way that I could switch.  Can an admin do that for me?

[cvcalhoun]

@ltierstein (and anyone else who has questions/concerns/complaints):  You can use the contact form at this link.  However, you may wish to specify whether you definitely want to be a Friend, or only want to be one if necessary to allow someone else to participate.  Although we have had more registrations than spots, there are always some people who

• ask to drop out,
• don’t join their team’s Strava club after being assigned to a team, or
• get injured during the competition.

Last year, we had 269 registrations, everyone got onto a team, and we even ended up being unable to replace at least one person who got injured.  So I would not automatically assume that you need to drop out in order to give someone else a place.

[cvcalhoun]

@boomer2u, we have your registration.  You’ll be a Friend if you don’t get assigned to a team.  However, see my response to @ltierstein, above.  Even late registrants have a good chance of being assigned to teams.

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