New Tubular Fund

We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat
4/3/09	If you're a roadie from New England, you might like the newest member of the family.

ACA!
1/28/09	The long-overdue consumption/amalgamation/assimilation of the ACA has finally happened, thanks to our good friend "the Excel macro." It's still not as easy as it should be, but it's easy enough we had no excuse not to do it. What else are you gonna do while it snows?? Er, I mean, I uploaded these while riding the trainer at 400W, no big deal. Anyhow! The data is in and should be point-ified shortly. We are most definitely looking for an ACA-results-helper for the 2009 season/past seasons, so if you want to donate 20 minutes a week to the cause -- drop us a line.

Can I Sleep Now?
12/18/08	Another season in the books, at least for most of us. Our bikes are dirty and broken, maybe even worse than this website. Time to clean up the mess created by a completely ridiculous three months. If you're one of those lucky folks still racing, fear not -- we'll stay abreast of Europe and Peak Season, and anything else you send us. Actually -- about that whole "sending results in" thing. We need to have a talk, internet. I think -- hmm. I just don't know how to say this. I don't want to upset you. Sigh. Something in our relationship has to change. It's not you, internet! I swear. It's me. I just can't upload 30 races a week. It's too much. Sure, each one might be only ten minutes with Excel -- but that would still be five hours of work! Per week. Every week, for three months. Never mind the results corrections, the reloads, the renames, the points lists, the emails, the going to the bank to get my giant piles of donated money. I'm just sayin', we might be pushing the fun envelope here. Just a bit. If you're a California or Seattle racer, you've already noticed that we're not quite keeping up with your series. You come here, hungry, on a Monday -- but we don't get your results up until Thursday! God, we're such assholes sometimes. So here's the deal, internet, we gotta distribute the shit outta this workload if we're going to move forward. We started doing a little thing where people can upload results on their own this season, and it worked pretty damn well. Thanks to the fine, fine work of Andrew Coe, Ben Popper, and Chris Lewis, the Kansas City, Chicago and Georgia series were taken care of while barely increasing the work for us. It rocked so, so hard. Now we're looking for more contributors. Got a local series you'd like to see results for? Got some modest Excel skillz and 10-20 minutes a week? Sick of waiting for us to load your race results days, if not weeks, after they get posted? Want to get some local cross cred and/or out yourself as a results whore? This is your chance! Drop us a line if you want to help out. Contributors will be rewarded with all the internet fame we can get our grubby hands on.

National Champs Race Predictor
12/14/08	We ran the 2008 Nationals Start Lists against the race predictor. It took a pretty long time. We should work on that. Some commentary and analysis of the "predictions" will be coming along shortly, but in the meanwhile, you can check out the raw data. Before you send feedback -- fields with fewer than 2 ranked riders were omitted, as were B/singlespeed fields! Updated!: Some commentary on what all these numbers mean, or don't mean, is here. Warning: Verbose and Loquacious. Both of 'em!

Belated Sandbagger Callouts
12/9/08	Dude! Dudes. You are SANDBAGGING WICKED HARD. You need to UPGRADE. Upper Midwest USA Cycling Officials: You are not blameless here. We now return to your regularly scheduled data wrangling.

Where Clauses are Hard
11/25/08	I just renamed every single race in the database to "SCPS #8 Cross Religion". Uh... time to go find that backup. Sit tight.

Never. Stop. Crossin.
11/20/08	We Are Promoting a Race! Along with our good buddies at International Bikes we are putting on yet another cross race in New England, taking place on December 13 in Wrentham, MA. There is only one valid excuse for not showing up -- "I'm going to nationals." I'm talking to you, OBRA-scene. Buy that plane ticket! You can sleep on the floor here. You might ask yourself, "what can I expect from a race promoted under the crossresults.com brand?" (Note: if you actually used the word "brand," you might work in marketing...) Here's what we bring to the party: 1) Super fast printed results for all finishers. Results corrections at the speed of light! 2) Staging by crossresults.com points, so no one has to camp out in the cold on the start line. 2) Results posted here within 6 hours of the last race finishing. 3) A compact, spectator-friendly course with hoppable barriers, a tough rideup, 2 sets of regulation barriers, double pit, a mulch pit, our best efforts at creating "wicked off cambah's" with minimal elevation, whatever other turns we can squeeze in. Two big power straights to keep the road guys happy, too. Oh yeah, that last one might just be a course description, and not "the crossresults.com brand." Whoops. Get over to the registration page and preregister so we don't lose any money! Port-a-potties ain't free!

RSS Reader, do it now!
11/19/08	While we wait for the site to completely reanimate, there's a new feature that is pretty much totally wicked -- the personal RSS feed. Click the icon next to your name on your profile (or the profile of whomever you are stalking) and add that sucker to your RSS reader. It'll tell you when results are posted for a race you're in, where you rank on each new points list, and when photos are added to a race you entered. It's almost enough to make you never need to come here again... OH NO WHAT HAVE I DONE THE LOST ADVERTISING REVENUE! *cries*

WOW THAT SUCKED
11/18/08	There was a hardware failure on the server that hosts us and we were down for a solid three days. We're not entirely back, as you should be able to tell by the lack of news (News database is still MIA). But the good stuff is back. We restored from a backup from last Wednesday, so anything since then is gone... drop a line if you see something missing, or re-re-name yourself if that's what you did on Thursday. We'll get the weekend's results loaded up during the course of the day. Update: We can't load any results until the ASP handling stuff comes back up, so it might be longer than the rest of today. Update #2: Results uploading is back. News database is still down.