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- "body": "[{\"type\": \"paragraph\", \"value\": \"<center>\\r\\n<p><span style=\\\"color:#ba0000; text-align:center;margin:auto;\\\"><i class=\\\"fa fa-exclamation-triangle fa-2x\\\" aria-hidden=\\\"true\\\"></i><em>Boat\\r\\nraces have nothing to do with the nautical arts.<br />\\r\\nIf nautical nonsense be something you wish, please visit <a\\r\\nhref=\\\"Concrete_Canoe\\\" class=\\\"wikilink\\\" title=\\\"Concrete Canoe\\\">Concrete\\r\\nCanoe</a></em></span></p>\\r\\n</center>\\r\\n<p><br />\\r\\n<img src=\\\"boat-race.jpg\\\" title=\\\"A casual E-Week Boat Race\\\" width=\\\"325\\\"\\r\\nalt=\\\"A casual E-Week Boat Race\\\" />A <em><strong>Boat Race</strong></em>\\r\\n(Beer on a Table Race), is a drinking game played between two teams of\\r\\nequal numbers. It's a game of speed and cleanliness; each team will line\\r\\nup, drinking a beer participant by participant until completed.\\r\\n<strong>Majors</strong> and <strong>minors</strong> are assigned for\\r\\nspillage, there are variations to the rules as well.<br />\\r\\n==Vocabulary== <strong>Sub Two</strong>: This means your chug time is\\r\\nbelow two seconds. Think hard about what you've done to achieve\\r\\nthis.<br />\\r\\n<strong>Anchor</strong>: In a two beer boat race, the order is from left\\r\\nto right to left (12344321). The person who drinks two beers in a row,\\r\\nin this case person #4, is the anchor.<br />\\r\\n<strong>Ace</strong>: Ace is the person who begins and ends the boat\\r\\nrace on each team. This position is coveted for it's ability to change\\r\\nthe outcome of the race; a lazy ace could ruin it, just as well as a\\r\\nspeedy one could win it.<br />\\r\\n<strong>Regulation Cup</strong>: This is the variation of plastic cups\\r\\nprovided to the EUS by Sleeman; it holds 16oz, but the more important\\r\\nfactor is the flexibility of the plastic. It is approximately equal to\\r\\n<a\\r\\nhref=\\\"https://www.uline.ca/Product/Detail/S-11690/Cups/Dixie-Crystal-Clear-Plastic-Cups-16-oz\\\">this\\r\\nmodel</a>, and is a staple for any boat race.<br />\\r\\n<strong>Tapper:</strong>: The person whom is charged with telling each\\r\\nteam member when it is their turn to drink by removing their hand from\\r\\nthe members back; this is more common in <a\\r\\nhref=\\\"Boat_Races#Competitive_Racing\\\" class=\\\"wikilink\\\"\\r\\ntitle=\\\"Competitive Racing\\\">Competitive Racing</a>.<br />\\r\\n<strong>Major</strong>: This is when an <em>obscene</em> amount of beer\\r\\nis spilled, which in the context of a boat race is approximately 3oz+.\\r\\nEvery major will result in the addition of 5 seconds to the team's\\r\\ntime.<br />\\r\\n<strong>Minor</strong>: This is when <em>any</em> amount of beer is\\r\\nspilled less than a major. Every minor will result in the addition of 2\\r\\nseconds to the team's time. Differentiating between a Major and Minor is\\r\\nat the discretion of the referee/coord in charge.<br />\\r\\n<strong>False Start</strong>: This is a penalty granted to those who\\r\\nbegin drinking before the person preceding them is finished; the penalty\\r\\nis an additional 10 seconds</p>\\r\\n<h2 id=\\\"competitive_racing\\\">Competitive Racing</h2>\\r\\n<p><span style=\\\"text-indent:20px;\\\"> Boat races are likely the most\\r\\npopular competition hosted at McGill, athletic, academic or beverage\\r\\nbased. Competitive boat races consist of 10 racers on each team, with a\\r\\nminimum of 4 girls, each drinking 2 beers one at a time, as fast as\\r\\npossible, in a ladder format. What that means is that teammates lineup\\r\\non one side of the table and drink a beer each going in one direction,\\r\\nbefore drinking a beer each coming back in the opposite direction, such\\r\\nthat 1 person drinks 2 beers in a row in the middle of the race and one\\r\\nperson drinks both the first and the last beer.<br />\\r\\n</span> <span style=\\\"text-indent:20px;\\\">The conventional wisdom is this:\\r\\n<em>You only compete with 4 girls</em>. This is almost always an\\r\\neffective strategy in that you 5th girl will be slower than your 6th guy\\r\\nunless you are a nursing team or somehow have a disproportionate amount\\r\\nof girls. Typically teams will put a guy in the <strong>ace</strong>\\r\\nposition, followed by 4 girls in the 2,3,4 and 5 spots respectively,\\r\\nbefore putting the remaining 5 guys in the 6,7,8,9 and 10\\r\\n<strong>anchor</strong> spots. The order is typically chosen with those\\r\\nhaving the fastest 1 beer time going in a higher position (i.e your\\r\\nfastest person goes at 10 and drinks two beers consecutively midway\\r\\nthrough the race). Participants are typically chosen by finding people\\r\\nwith the fastest one-beer chug times, which is often erroneous.<br />\\r\\n</span> In trying to find those people with the fastest one-beer times\\r\\npossible, teams are often designed to have the fast <em>\\u201cbest case\\r\\nscenario\\u201d</em> time possible rather than a team built to avoid going\\r\\nslowly.<br />\\r\\nAs a result, <strong>two groups of chuggers tend to be over-represented\\r\\nin boat races:</strong></p>\\r\\n<ol>\\r\\n<li>Those who spill</li>\\r\\n<li>Those who slow down on their second beer, with the two groups being\\r\\nlinked intricately.<br />\\r\\n</li>\\r\\n</ol>\\r\\n<p>The main problem that comes from picking people based on their best\\r\\none-beer time is that you are picking based on what could be an anomaly,\\r\\nand that you are refusing to award consistency. The second issue that\\r\\narises is that the competition involves drinking two beers and very\\r\\nrarely is any method used to evaluate someones ability to drink the\\r\\nsecond beer, or more aptly, to avoid slowing down too much.<br />\\r\\nTeams will add up each person\\u2019s fastest one beer chug, multiply it by 2\\r\\nand say that they could complete the race in 60 or 70 seconds without\\r\\nacknowledging that people will likely not achieve their best time. What\\r\\nteams should be trying to do is minimize their deviation from a good\\r\\nscore, to try to be great at being good rather than just trying to be\\r\\namazing.<br />\\r\\n<strong>The most undervalued chuggers are:</strong></p>\\r\\n<ol>\\r\\n<li>Those who rarely spill</li>\\r\\n<li>Those who, if given a few second to recover, can drink another beer\\r\\nwith little to no drop-off.</li>\\r\\n</ol>\\r\\n<h3 id=\\\"case_study\\\">Case Study</h3>\\r\\n<p>Take two chuggers who we will assume to have a representative sample\\r\\nof 40 chugs on <em>(this may seem unrealistic; however, if you think so,\\r\\nit\\u2019s probably not for you)</em>.<br />\\r\\n<u><span style=\\\"color:#ff0000\\\"><strong>Chugger A</strong></span> is a\\r\\nstar</u>;</p>\\r\\n<ul>\\r\\n<li>They chug with an average first beer time of 1.7 seconds</li>\\r\\n<li>An average drop-off of 0.3 seconds</li>\\r\\n<li>Minors 15% of the time and majors 5% of the time</li>\\r\\n</ul>\\r\\n<p><u><span style=\\\"color:#0000ff\\\"><strong>Chugger B</strong></span> is\\r\\nsolid</u>.</p>\\r\\n<ul>\\r\\n<li>Their first beer time is 2.2 seconds,</li>\\r\\n<li>A drop off of only 0.1 second on the second beer</li>\\r\\n<li>They minor 7.5% of the time and doesn\\u2019t major.</li>\\r\\n</ul>\\r\\n<p>To compare these two chuggers average time over two beers, one simply\\r\\nmultiplies the one beer time (1BT) by 2, adds the drop-off time,\\r\\nmultiplies the minor and major percentages by 2 (accounting for the two\\r\\nbeers) and multiplies them by 2 and 5 seconds respectively.<br />\\r\\n<span style=\\\"color:#ff0000\\\"><strong>Chugger A</strong></span></p>\\r\\n<pre><code> 2 * 1.7 + 0.3 + 0.15 * 2 * 2 + 0.05 * 2 * 5 = 3.4 + 0.3 + 0.6 + 0.5 = 4.8s</code></pre>\\r\\n<p><span style=\\\"color:#0000ff\\\"><strong>Chugger B</strong></span></p>\\r\\n<pre><code> 2 * 2.2 + 0.1 + 0.075 * 2 * 2 + 0.0 * 2 * 5 = 4.4 + 0.1 + 0.3 + 0.0 = 4.8s</code></pre>\\r\\n<h3 id=\\\"selecting_chuggers\\\">Selecting Chuggers</h3>\\r\\n<p>Now clearly here the numbers are chosen for effect, but the point is\\r\\nthat these two hypothetical chuggers could clock in at the same speed\\r\\nper boat race in the long run. That being said, most teams would\\r\\nscramble to get <span style=\\\"color:#ff0000\\\"><strong>Chugger\\r\\nA</strong></span>, while <span style=\\\"color:#0000ff\\\"><strong>Chugger\\r\\nB</strong></span> would likely struggle to get on a boat racing team,\\r\\nwhich is where the element of <em>moneyball</em> comes in. How to build\\r\\na boat racing team that will consistently perform with or without access\\r\\nto the best chuggers. This can be achieved by seeking undervalued\\r\\nchuggers and more specifically chuggers with statistics that are\\r\\nundervalued. In particular, at least in my experience, ability to avoid\\r\\nspills and in particular majors is an extremely undervalued trait, as\\r\\nwell as the ability to avoid slowing down significantly on the second\\r\\nbeer, which is often overlooked except when choosing an\\r\\n<strong>anchor</strong>. Moderately fast guy chuggers (2.0-2.5 seconds\\r\\none beer time) who rarely spill are extremely easy to find on the\\r\\nchugging market compared to a star chugger (1.5-2.0 seconds) who spills\\r\\nsomewhat regularly.<br />\\r\\n<br />\\r\\n<em>As an aside, a tie-breaker when choosing between Chugger A and B\\r\\ncould be whether or not a team is expected to win or lose (comparing the\\r\\ntwo beer sum done above for all 10 drinkers on each team or more\\r\\nrealistically time trial results). Chugger A would then be chosen when\\r\\nthe his team was the underdog due to their ability to produce the best\\r\\ncase performances and B would be chosen when the team was favoured for\\r\\ntheir ability to avoid costly errors which could close the gap between\\r\\ntheir team and the competition.</em><br />\\r\\n<br />\\r\\nIn the process of choosing individuals, special attention should be paid\\r\\nto choosing girls for a few reasons. First of all, although there are\\r\\nonly 4 girls on a team, due to girls being on average slower than guys,\\r\\ngirl typically make up 55-65% of the teams total time. Secondly, the\\r\\nsupply of females on the chugging market is significantly lower than\\r\\nthat of males, with the drop off between the girls on the bubble (3rd\\r\\nand 4th fastest vs 5th or 6th fastest) often being much more pronounced\\r\\nthan between guys on the bubble (5th and 6th vs 7th and 8th). Finally,\\r\\ngirls typically have a larger drop-off between their first and second\\r\\nbeer which can lead to the contribution of 4 girls being more important\\r\\nthan people think.<br />\\r\\n<br />\\r\\nIn addition, as a general principle, people are more likely to spill\\r\\nwhen they slow down and may begin to panic, linking the two important\\r\\ntraits of drop-off time and spill rates mentioned earlier. I will note\\r\\nthat although girls have higher drop-off rates in general, they don\\u2019t\\r\\nseem to spill a greater amount. This apparent inconsistency in expected\\r\\nspilling rates may be covered by the issue of egos that can be\\r\\nassociated with racing. Typically, guys seem to feel more pressure to\\r\\nperform quickly and seem to over extend in attempts to impress others\\r\\nwith greater frequency than girls.</p>\\r\\n<p><strong><em>Final Notes:</em></strong><br />\\r\\n#Choose a <strong>tapper</strong> that is experienced and cautious to\\r\\navoid penalties. <em>A false start is 10 seconds</em> which would erase\\r\\nany small gains made by carefully timed taps over the course of several\\r\\nraces.</p>\\r\\n<ol>\\r\\n<li>Ensure you have suitable replacements, as over the course of several\\r\\nraces people can start to struggle or get drunk and drop off the map to\\r\\nhook up with that impressed spectator in the crowd from the previous\\r\\nrace.</li>\\r\\n<li>If you build a team well in advance, don\\u2019t overlook the value of\\r\\npractice. Even simulations done with water allow individuals to improve\\r\\ngreatly in most cases. At the very least, even if a chugger\\u2019s best time\\r\\ndoesn\\u2019t decrease a lot, their familiarity with their technique will lead\\r\\nto fewer spills, which can be just as valuable if not more.</li>\\r\\n</ol>\\r\\n<p><strong><em>To be continued</em></strong></p>\\r\\n<h2 id=\\\"variations\\\">Variations</h2>\\r\\n<h3 id=\\\"anchor_only\\\">Anchor Only</h3>\\r\\n<p>This is a cruel race in which every participant must drink two cups\\r\\nin a row; i.e., <em>everyone is an anchor</em>. While one team must win,\\r\\nin truth everybody loses. Have trashbags at the ready.</p>\\r\\n<h3 id=\\\"if_someone_pukes\\\">If someone pukes</h3>\\r\\n<p>we go again. That's it! If someone pukes, we go again, no arguing\\r\\nabout it.</p>\\r\\n<h3 id=\\\"water_coffee_etc.\\\">Water, Coffee, etc.</h3>\\r\\n<p>Boat races extends to the speedy consumption of any good. Simply\\r\\nreplace the first letter with the item of which you will be consuming\\r\\n(e.g. water= Woat Race, Ice Cream= Icoat Race, and so on), the same\\r\\nrules apply. All you can eat sushi is a <strong><em>great</em></strong>\\r\\nvenue for this variation.</p>\\r\\n<p><a href=\\\"Category:Curator&#39;s_Choice\\\" class=\\\"wikilink\\\"\\r\\ntitle=\\\"Category:Curator&#39;s Choice\\\">Category:Curator's Choice</a> <a\\r\\nhref=\\\"Category:HowToTracking\\\" class=\\\"wikilink\\\"\\r\\ntitle=\\\"Category:HowToTracking\\\">Category:HowToTracking</a></p>\\r\\n\", \"id\": \"3ce1889a-51be-4544-9f58-28fc36c97358\"}]",

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