So remember how the race predictor was totally awesome and totally free back in the day? And then remember how it took down the site due to its popularity/lack of caching?
We've decided to take the crack dealer approach to the problem. The first hit was free -- now you gotta pay! I bet you wanna know how you're gonna do at Gloucester, eh? Eh? For five bucks, I'll tell ya.
Seriously. $5/year -- that's less than two BikeReg service fees, mind you -- gets you all the race predicting you could ever want, plus the justification to yell at us if the site goes down, gives you an error, predicts you to lose, or doesn't work in IE6*. What a deal!
*-just kidding, you'd have to pay a lot more than $5 to make us fix the IE6 bugs..
On one hand, not running the predictor gives me some sort of illusion that I can finish somewhere other than DFL. And that's not bad. Just call me the Ryan Kelly of the master's field. Wait - well not exactly. He's faster and younger.
But hey we're both wearing mostly red kits. That's sort of similar.
Anyway - go hand over your lunch money (or coffee money) to Colin and start predicting.
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The kid's smart but that thing is a waste of time and now apparently, money.* Why you would want to slot yourself in to a particular finish before the race started is beyond me. In every race I've ever done, without exception, I wanted and tried to finish higher than I did. I don't need a number bouncing around in my head before the race that pegs me at a particular spot. That is a "red light" for performance... don't you want to think you could do better than your ranking?
*this isn't to say that the predictor hasn't been scary accurate when I've used it in the past... because it has.
The last non-merchandise item i 'purchased' on the web is something that can't be discussed on a family oriented blog. That was years ago. these days, if I can't get it for free, I don't bother, and I don't need a web app telling me how bad I'm going to suck anyways, fuck you very fucking much.
(ok, I _do_ have a subscription to mcafee, but that's it)
I'd give money to Colin for just being Colin....that kid gives a lot back to the sport...crossresults.com is pretty rad even if you don't want to use the race predictor I say send him some $$$$
Okay everyone - stop being as cheap of a bastard as me and Zen and send Results Boy some $$$$$
I'll be handing over some $ at g-ster...
so technically it won't be a web based transaction.
Oh and Zen, do you pay for internet at your house?
I dunno. Looks like the end of the line.
Blogger gewilli said...
"Okay everyone - stop being as cheap of a bastard as me and Zen"
I'm not cheap, I just don't see the sense in paying for something I'll never use.
"Zen, do you pay for internet at your house?"
Good point (I stand corrected), Yes.
OK, monthly internet and a mcafee subscription, but that's _really_ it. I swear.
Yeah but it was popular enough that he outgrew his hosting arrangement. That is success by any measure. The fee is just a way to limit use until he has a better way to monetize the site and find it a proper host without draining his own bank account.
Zen uses bikereg too, at least sometimes. Another fee-based internet "service." It's just they hide the fee in the entry and everyone loves it even though they are getting boned.
Blogger solobreak said...
"Zen uses bikereg too,"
True, but you actually get something tangible there - a race entry - I count that as 'merchandise'. Contrast that with what the 'cross results website offers - information - that, while interesting, I don't find useful.
I don't mind that bike reg fee either, though I would rather it went to the promoter. The benefits I see from the fee are that I don't have to fill out the registration form at the event and the guarantee that I won't get closed out. It's rare that I use bike reg for an event that I'm not worried about being closed out, and I would rather spend an extra couple of bucks on the late fee - which goes to the promoter, than spend it on the reg fee which is only useful to me if I want a guaranteed spot.
The promoter benefits from the couple of dollars you give Bikereg -- they get promotion, less paperwork, a preview of what the fields are going to look like, etc.
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