Home • Sign Up! • The Rules • FAQ • The Awards • The Challenges • The Charity • The After Bash • The Sponsors While this is fully intended to be an event of stupidity, we do not want anyone hurt, arrested, or otherwise shamed beyond a reasonable degree Serious violations will result in teams being disqualified from the Idiotarod. You can still go to the, After BAsh, but you may be paddled. Minor violations will incur time penalties. In reality, the Idiotarod walks a fine line between underground hooliganism and mainstream charity — and there is probably a whole lot that we want to pretend we don’t know about (like what happened last Saturday after the roommates left the house, you know), but we’re sort of grownups and need to be the responsible ones. We ask that you please do not break any laws. We’re trying to make this an outstanding day of ridiculous fun, but please know that you are playing by your own choice and we’re not going to force you to do something that might hurt you. We may laugh at you, but you won’t win any points. Traffic laws, drinking laws…all those things need to be official. Moral laws….well they are open for debate. |
 TEAMSThe same five members must start, finish, and hit every checkpoint together. You may not swap in designated runners, though you may rotate positions (hey ohhh!). Five Pullers/Runners must be attached in some way to the cart during the entire course (except at checkpoints). You choose your own form of rigging. One person (Musher) is free to run behind the cart, though he or she should have a hand on the cart at all times. The Musher may ride in the cart, but this is dangerous and not recommended. If you do decide to ride in the cart we strongly suggest that a helmet of some sort is worn. It’s not only practical, but it’s funny. And it’s the law in some states (you know, those really progressive states with legislation about riding in grocery carts with helmets). Teams must be on foot at all times. Bikes, rollerblades, jets, or rocket packs are not allowed. That also means no subways, cars, vans, taxis, or other conveyances. You can walk, or you can run, you might even hide, but you have to be on foot. Hell, you can carry you cart the entire way if you want, but that would totally suck. Teams must use a standard shopping cart. Any size cart is fine, as long as it is not a child’s cart or a toy. |
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 TRICKERYLet’s be real clear here: We do not condone any activity that jeopardizes the safety of Idiotarod participants or observers.This is supposed to be both fun and embarrassing, but not life threatening. You and your entire team will be disqualified immediately if it is perceived that a team tried to willfully inflict serious injury (we saw that ridiculous CSI:NY episode — don’t pull any of that stuff here). This includes any activity that causes someone to fall, tip over, hurl into traffic, unintentionally maim pedestrians, or destroy private property. You might think that something like eggs are benign and funny, but consider that the D.C. race spent hours explaining to various city officials that eggs were not considered a deadly weapon. No food products get hurled. Please remember that if the community views our acts as malicious, they are more likely to complain to city officials who could very easily get this and other fun events banned. And speaking of maiming pedestrians, it is your responsibility to yield to them! Seriously, watch out for people on the streets or sidewalks. The fact that you’ve got a tricked-out shopping cart does not give you the right of way. Also, please expect that you may get dirty. We will not pay for dry cleaning your clothes. We also will not replace your pretty, pretty princess costume. So dress accordingly. Your nifty new Lacoste polo shirt is probably not a good choice of costume. When we talk about Trickery, we mean street smarts. Chicanery. Tomfoolery of an entertaining nature. You get the picture. Got a friend who is Asheville PD? Maybe he or she might want to “delay and question” other teams… get it? Good. Please take a gander at our little list of OK and Not-So-OK trickery |
 Examples of Acceptable Trickery:1. *Personal favorite: The team in D.C. one year set up a fake roadblock claiming to be officials, and would not let teams go until they had sung a Britney Spears song on the street. This is particularly funny since a board member of that Idiotarod fell for this! Awesome and totally acceptable if you can lie that well! 2. *Locking up another team’s cart with a bike lock, then giving the key to the nearest Idiot Wrangler (who can unlock the cart after an appropriately embarrassing amount of time, assuming the team hasn’t figured out a way to defeat the lock 3. *Relocating another team’s unguarded cart and notifying an Idiot Wrangler where you hid it (Idiot Wranglers keep secrets as long as necessary) 4. *Finding a way to non-permanently gum up the wheels of another cart – Vaseline? 5. *Sending over a team of supermodels, male or female, to distract them from their allowable start time. 6. *Silly String, as long as it is not pointed up someone’s nose. 7. *Normal water guns – filled with water, NOT hot sauce, or liquor, fish oil or chocolate milk, but water. 8. *Anything that won’t delay the other team more than an hour (especially if it’s funny) |
 Examples of Unacceptable Trickery:
1. *Locking up another cart, then throwing the key down the nearest sewer grate (or other un-retrievable location) |
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| If you have any questions or want to tell us how cool your team is going to be please don’t hesitate to contact us atashevilleidiotarod@gmail.com |
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