MOCK URBAN CHALLENGE 2
San Francisco
June 13, 2004

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Thirteen teams turned out for the second annual free Mock Urban Challenge on a beautiful sunny San Francisco morning.  We deviated from the real Urban Challenge just a bit. Instead of starting at Jillian's at 4th & Howard, we started at The Canvas Cafe on 9th Avenue & Lincoln in San Francisco, right across the street from Golden Gate Park. It's a massive airy light space, with art on the walls, many comfortable seating areas, and really good food.

Teams started with a 30-question multiple choice trivia quiz. They were seeded into five groups based on their trivia scores, with only the first 20 answers counting, and the remaining 10 answers being used to break ties, if necessary.

To see how you would have done, go to the Verizon Wireless Urban Challenge web site and take the 2004 Washington DC trivia test, which is on-line. That is the trivia which we used in the Mock game.

The game clock started when the first team left the start area. Each wave was released exactly three minutes after the previous wave, so the fifth wave had to try to make up a 12 minute handicap.

Results of the trivia:

1st wave
16/6 Jan Chong and Rahul Gupta*
16/6 Yar Woo (sp?) / Michael Fishman*
15/4 Dennis Chang/John Brady

2nd wave
14/4 Gregory Glockner/Eric Raynard
14/1 Dave Blum/Adam Salkin

3rd wave
13/5 Mike Connors/Cliff Wong
13/4 Ryan Bradley/Justin "JD" Davis
13/3 Carmen Lau/Raymond Ho

4th wave
12/4 Sean Quinlan/Becky Volz
12/3 Greg deBeer/David Alyea

5th wave
11/8 Karen Li/Indra Kabul
11/4 Jenny Gu/Bernie Su
 9/4 S.K. Panda/Julie Presnell

* note - in the real UC you are *not* allowed to collaborate on the trivia with another team, but these two teams didn't know that

Here are the results of the actual race (note: three teams didn't return to the finish).  CP stands for "checkpoint."

Eleven teams found the skip guy and earned the right to bypass one clue site.

Clue number 6 contained a play on words which was not in the normal UC style, and which none of the teams got. You'll see why when we post the clues in a few weeks! This caused delays for all teams, and actually resulted in many teams being DQ'd. Those who were forced to skip clue 6 had to then visit clue 11, which was out of the way, and delayed them further.

1
3:10:41
Ryan Bradley & Justin "JD" Davis
skipped CP6
actual time on course: 3:04:41

DQ
3:12:27
Gregory Glocker & Eric Raynard
skipped CP11, DQ on CP6
actual time on course: 3:09:27

2
3:52:11
Greg deBeer & David Alyea
skipped CP6
actual time on course: 3:43:11

DQ
4:40:40
Dennis Cheung/John Brady
skipped CP6, DQ on CP9
actual time on course: 4:40:40

DQ
5:00:23
SK Panda & Julie Presnell
skipped CP6, DQ on CP3,8
actual time on course: 4:48:23

DQ
5:01:52
Jenny Gu & Bernie Su
DQ on CP2, CP3 and CP4 (deleted photo of CP5)
actual time on course: 4:49:52

3
5:04:21
Dave Blum & Adam Salkin
skipped CP6
actual time on course: 5:01:21

DQ?
5:22:27
Carmen Lau & Raymond Ho
actual time on course: 5:16:27

DQ
5:32:32
Sean Quinlan & Becky Volz
can't read my notes
actual time on course: 5:23:32

DQ
6:06:20
Mike Connors & Cliff Wong
skipped 11, DQ on 8,9
actual time on course: 6:00:20