Rut-Breaker CSAUP Series ***Canceled***

Rut-Breaker CSAUP Series ***Canceled***

***After much deliberation and in consultation with the A51 board, the idea previously known as Rutbreaker will be mothballed in favor of smaller, stand-alone challenges and events throughout the summer.  Lesson learned here is smaller and more focused efforts may fit the Nation a bit better than the larger and more grandiose ideas.***

Version / As of Date: 2 / 3.22.2020

RUT:

The world is in a pandemic induced rut, grinding in place and getting nowhere fast.  While the vaccine promises to remove some impediments to forward motion, accelerators will be required to upend the status-quo and restore healthy motion to the people of earth.

Much as art imitates life, the nation imitates the world and many of us have been forced into ruts in the past months (or years).  When YHC was tasked to offer up activities of the pointless nature to entertain and challenge the PAX of Area51, it was obvious things were going to be more than a little different than years past.  Thinking about creative ways to bring the PAX back together in competition when the world has been taught to avoid any kind of unity sparked an idea… through which all of the PAX of the regions now get to suffer.

The idea behind this competition is to get each of us out of our comfort zones, out of our patterns, out of our Ruts.  We will be asked to disrupt the status-quo of our accepted routines and do things differently.  We will meet new PAX, try new workouts, help other men find acceleration, and compete with each other, and ourselves, to be more diverse and less rutted by the time the summer is out.  This is The Rut-Breaker series…

The Thang:

PAX will form teams (minimum of 4, maximum of 10) and compete individually and as teams across a series of categories.  There will be opportunities to accumulate score OYO and at sponsored group activities.  Full scoring details will be explained below.  The series will kick off 4/1/2021 and run through 9/30/2021 and be open to teams from any of the regions reasonably adjacent to the Charlotte, NC area.  There will be no less than five CSAUP events from May-Sept (hopefully one a month) which will offer a chance for teams to come together and vie for event supremacy.  Scoring will be tallied once a month for individual month end titles and then again at the end for an overall series champion.  There will also be awards for the winning team(s) and leading individuals across categories and events.  Speaking of Categories and Events:

Scoring Categories:

1. Emotional Headlocks –  Individuals will receive 10 points for every PAX they EH during the competition.  On top of that, much like the Belicheck coaching tree, legacy matters and any PAX EHd by one who you EH (during the contest) will net you 5 points.  So you EH PAX1 who in turn EHs PAX2, you will receive 15 points.  If PAX2 EHs another PAX in turn, you will net an additional 5 points.
2. Out of Region Posts (One Per Site) –  Every workout you post which is outside of your primary region will net you 1 point.  Be honest here gents, if you live (or identify with) Area51 but post to Swift in SOB every Tuesday such as YHC does, don’t take credit for it being an out of region post.  You will be scoring yourself, but if you’re in the lead you better believe other PAX will be checking your street cred.  Be honorable or be called out.
3. Out of Region Qs (One Per Site) –  Every time you Q a workout at a site where you haven’t had a Q before, you will net 3 points.  This is another Honor system category, be honest with yourself and the PAX.  If the Q isn’t novel, and isn’t getting you out of your norm, don’t score it.
4. Mini-CSAUP / Team CSAUP / Official CSAUPs – Every time your team competes in a Completely Stupid and Utterly Pointless event together, you earn 5 points for each of your team who participates.  If you have majority representation from 1 other team in the RutBreaker who is also competing you each get 7 points per participating team member.  If your team comes up with the event and invites other teams to compete and successfully hosts a mini-CSAUP, each of “hosting” team’s participants gets 10 points.  Finally, if your team participates in an official RutBreaker CSAUP (numbered 1-5), each participating PAX will receive 15 points.  Teams can also get bonus points for achieving certain results at official CSAUPs, details of these bonus opportunities will be explained on the CSAUP schedule below where applicable and calculated in the Master Scoring File.
5. Community Accelerators: –  Teams who organize activities in their communities (Blood drives, Clothing Donations, Food Drives, Sponsoring Families etc.) will receive 1 point for every PAX who participates/contributes

Scoring Modifiers:  Scoring will be conducted as an AVERAGE of scores for the PAX on the team.  So if you have 5 PAX on your team and 4 get 25 points but 1 gets 0, your team nets 20 points total.  Take this into account when forming teams, big teams can be a ton of fun, but if a few members aren’t getting after it, it can cost you.  There will be opportunities to earn scoring modifiers all summer long, which will be % modifiers applied to your teams score AFTER averaging.

1. Diversity is key for team makeup. Your team will get a 1% bonus for each region represented on your team which isn’t your Captain’s home region.  So if YHC starts a team, we won’t get a bonus for any A51 PAX.  So if we recruit 1 PAX from WUC, and 2 from SOB, we will have a bonus of 2% of our final score.
2. Winning a CSAUP event will yield modifiers as detailed in the individual CSAUP Pre-Blasts
3. Each month will have a team with the highest average score.  This team will get a 1% bonus applied to their final score
4. At the end of the competition YHC will average every team’s monthly scores into a total average monthly score, the team with the highest total average monthly score across all 6 months will receive a 5% bonus added to their final score.
5. Individual PAX who lead the competition in total number of EHs, Out of Regions Qs and Out of Region Posts will secure for their team score modifiers equal to 5%.  Monthly leaders in each category earn 1% bonus IF they do not win the overall.  So the maximum bonus an individual can obtain for any category is 5%

CSAP Schedule:

1. RutBreaker CSAUP #1 May (5/22/2021): F3 Functional Strength Challenge – Pre-Blast
2. RutBreaker CSAUP #2 June (TBD): F3 Waxhaw “Spartan” Race – Pre-Blast Upcoming
3. RutBreaker CSAUP #3 July (TBD): 50 pound 5k?: Pre-Blast Upcoming
4. RutBreaker CSAUP #4 August (8/6/2021): F3Metro GrowRuck – Pre-blast, Registration and additional details Upcoming.
5. RutBreaker CSAUP #5 September (TBD): “F” AMRAP Games  – Pre-Blast Upcoming

Registration, Scoring and Tracking will be completed via this google sheet.  The link will be provided here once it is available.  Category and event instructions will be embedded in the sheet.  PAX will be responsible for logging and tracking their own scores in the google sheet.

Have an idea for a CSAUP but never wanted to tackle it on your own?  Here is a great opportunity to be part of the RutBreaker team.  Reach out to me (Flipper) via comment on the pre-blast or via slack (I’m on the nation slack as Flipper (F3 SCLT)) and we’ll see about getting your bad idea into one of the open slots.

General Feedback?  Sound off in the comments below or hit up YHC directly.  This is work in progress so would love to hear your thoughts.