Rental Car Rally 2009: SF to Yuma

** Each ticket covers one vehicle and unlimited team members **

RCR is a 36hr backroads-mostly driving competition between 100+ crazily-festooned teams competing for thousands of dollars in cash and a golden gas pump.

This year's premium sponsor is the superlative videocamera company Flip, which will be providing 12 videocameras so rally teams can document their journey.

The rally starts 9pm June 12th at an undisclosed location in San Francisco. Teams will navigate their way to Yuma, hitting mandatory checkpoints along the way. The finish line in Yuma will be disclosed to rally teams when the rally starts.

RCR is scored on a 100pt scale: 50pts for your odometer reading (the lowest reading gets 50pts, while progressively higher readings receive progressively fewer points), 40pts for your team's style, and 10pts for random tomfoolery. For more details, see rentalcarrally.com.

RCR will crown two winning teams in Yuma: a Grand Champion, and a Style Champion. Both teams get a golden gas pump, but only the grand champ gets the cash prize.

Your ticket includes:

1. admission to the rally
2. rally provisions bag for your team (the rally booklet w/ rules & coordinates for checkpoints, a rally contact sheet w/ info on other drivers, two mix CDs, energy drinks, condoms, cigarettes, beef jerky)
3. a party at Bloodhound in SoMa a few days before the rally w/ sweet, sweet drink specials
4. a party in Yuma on Saturday June 13th
5. the chance to take home one of 10 Flip Video cameras, and the chance to win the rally grand prizes: ~$2500 (total prize amount dependent upon number of entrants)

Your ticket does not include:

1. a rental car or vehicle, or fuel
2. accommodations in Yuma

The rally ends in Yuma. Return is at your discretion.

RCR is organized by two well ridiculous chaps: Supreme Commander, diabolical mastermensch behind the water gun assassination tourney Street Wars, and Steve, the plainly-monikered boozenessman who founded the Wii Tennis tourney Wiimbledon.

Questions? Wanna sponsor? Holla at steve [at] rental car rally dot com.

NOTE: YOU MUST PROVIDE AN EMAIL ADDY WHEN YOU REGISTER. That's how we'll be communicating with you up until race time.

NOTE: No refunds after May 27th.