I took part in the Feats race (I must be masochistic) on Sunday. Barano server, 1:45 race time.
Dutifully following the guidelines on Grog Blog I arrived early, and proceeded to crash 8 times because of the lag.
I finally got up on the seamstress' porch and that seemed to help, just being away from all the gibbering monkeys in the crowd. Most of these were endlessy repeating "Can I change my race time?" "Can I be in this race?" Geez.
Did I say 1:45 race time? HA! Late, of course. My race started at 2:15.
Bozos standing right in front of us racers as we waited at the line up, most moved after first being asked, then told to move.
I did not experience any lag during my race, oddly enough. As it was the last one on Barano for that time, perhaps a lot of people had left by then.
The race GMs were Ruby and Rose. Neither of whom would answer anything I tried to ask. Not even, "Which race is this"? when I merely wanted to know if my time had come up yet.
So, the race starts and I go out in the lead right off, and stay there. WAY out front. No one near me. (One non-racer doofus tried to run with (or into?) me, but I left him behind as well. I do all 3 laps, swim the correct water lap, get to the jail and run over to the swamp with pistol ready (no one else in the race has yet to catch up with me) and ....... NO GATORS. I am counting the seconds. No gators. The other racers all arrive, all looking for gators. None. Zip. Nada. We are all shouting, "WHERE R THE GATORS?" Still no gators. Racers are running all over the swamp area. No gators. Then the GM announces some guy as the "winner". What? He claims he went into Misty Mire to shoot a gator. Uh uh -- the gators are supposed to be by the jail area. I tell the GM so, and changing the rules in the middle of the race is wrong.
I get announced as "second place".
OK -- I did this whole thing KNOWING it was going to be yet another farce and FUBARfest, but by googly moogly, I had won the blamed thing by the proverbial mile and this was utter fecal matter.
And guess what, all the time she's announcing the winners, and giving us the codes.....still NO GATORS.
Then without a word of farewell both GMs disappear.
Know what happened immediately after the 2 GMs left?
Yep...the gators appeared.
Way to go, POTCO.
Just another badly planned, poorly executed, over hyped dog and pony show.
