Okay folks, we have a couple of last-minute things we need to establish here.
First, I'm going to take charge of holding all the entry fees and distributing prizes at the end, if nobody minds. People can give their money to whichever referee/committee member they register with, but I'll keep it all for the duration of the race.
Second, we have yet to decide who is going to referee the race. I suppose some of that will depend upon how many parties/alliances we end up with, but as of right now I think we only have five people (me, Ele, Demon, Dnoth, and Ishido) to volunteer and I think we're going to have more than 30 people participating, from what I've heard. We may need to recruit more referees.
Third, still on the topic of referees, we still haven't decided who is going to run the race and who's going to sit it out to be the checkpoint judges or the ones monitoring the routes themselves. Again, I suppose some of this will depend upon how many people show up to run the race but we do kind of need to decide. I'm willing to sit the first race out - I'll do as I suggested and ride on chocobo along with the racers - but I think we probably need one more person to do that so we have one person at the start and end of every zone.
Or we could just have a total free for all. XD Your choice.
One last thing - about prizes, were we going to go with the idea of having a "no-prize" of sorts for different categories - ie, first death, most extravagant escape (Ele would have won this ten times over in our trial race), longest train, and so on? If so we'd probably better establish those categories and such first but I guess we'll have time before the race too.
I'd like for the "committee" members to meet up in Bastok an hour before the race, if we can, so I can distribute linkpearls and we can do our last-minute planning. I'll be sending all of you tells tonight to confirm this stuff but I might as well post it here too.
Here's to a successful event!