As posted in that thread Bishop Linked to
RCRD uses
* 4-ish rolls of 3" Black & Yellow Striped Vinyl Hazard Tape from this page
http://www.identi-tape.com/stripes&checks.htm for the track border
* 3-ish rolls of 1" Gaffers from the same site for 10' lines and misc lines
* Over Derby Rope (really) this is also called 5/8" braided polypropylene
All this fits in a single suitcase.
Setup varies by the number of people we have available. We could do this with just two, but when we have more we can do large chunks of it in parallel. If we had enough people we would do it like this:
* we have two people measure from center to one end
* mark the track inner border with sidewalk chalk
* from the same center measure over 1 ft and mark the outer border with sidewalk chalk
* from the same point roughly mark the safety zone border
* at this point we start a two person team on each rope. They lay it down over the chalk lines and tack it down occasionally. Get this as good as you can at this point. In about 10 ft chunks you can spread the rope out and then slowly pull it into the line and it adopts the curve on it's own.
* at this point we start a single person laying out the safety zone which is caution tape tacked down every 10 ft or so.
* chair setup starts outside the safety zone at this point.
* the measurement team marks the other end as above.
* when the measurement team finishes that they move to laying out 10' lines. They measure and tape each line as they go.
* When the rope is laid down we start up to 4 2 person tape teams (4 rolls of tape, 4 teams). One person holds the tape, the other unrolls a bit and sticks it down over the rope.
* Whoever finishes first marks the safety zone by the benches and penalty box with tape instead of the caution tape.
We generally start with 2 or 3 as soon as we have access to the arena and are joined by others as they wander in. It generally takes us about 60 minutes from opening the track bag to finished.
