Furball Run

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Furball_Run 2009 sticker, created by AK.

The Furball Run, founded by AK and Jasper Foxx,[1] is a non-profit two-way road trip from Maidstone services on the M20 in the UK via the Eurotunnel to Eurofurence in Germany, and has been held annually since 2008. Participants are known as "Furballers", and each driver choses a number for their vehicle (sometimes with a mysterious significance known only to them).

The outward and return journeys are both spread over two days with overnight stops. For the first two years of the run, when Eurofurence was held in Suhl, the return journey also included a trip to the Nürburgring, where the drivers involved could test out the speed of their vehicles on the track.

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[edit] Furball Run Sticker Design

All Furball Run members are given a handbook, and can purchase a set of stickers that can be placed on their vehicle for the journey or kept as a memento. The design changes each year to make every Furball Run unique and memorable, and are sometimes designed to correspond to the Eurofurence theme.

Furball Run 2010 Safari Designs, created by Shadster.
Furball Run 2011 Oriental Express Designs, created by Shadster.

Most of the artwork for the Furball Run has been designed and created by the co-founders and the artist Shadster. The main sticker design is based on the Gumball3000 design, in tribute to the famous motor sport event. Since 2009, there has been a secondary vehicle sticker. For 2009, the shape was based on a baseball flag, designed by AK. Even though the stickers proved tricky to place on the vehicles, they were favoured by many of the Furballers who participated.

For 2010, the Furball Run made its way to Eurofurence 16 at its new location, the Maritim Hotel Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany, where the convention's theme was 'Serengeti'. A corresponding theme of 'Safari' was chosen for the Furball Run design, with each driver being given a sticker customised with their own choice of vehicle number.

[edit] Past Events

Convention No. of cars No. of participants Theme Additional destinations
2008 Eurofurence 14 7 22[2] none Nürburgring
2009 Eurofurence 15 14 27 (?)[3] none Nürburgring
2010 Eurofurence 16 13 32 (?)[4] 'Safari' none
2011 Eurofurence 17 15 40 'Oriental Express' none

[edit] Video

In June 2011, Mustan released a video of the Furball 2010 run.[5]

[edit] Upcoming Events

[edit] 2012 Time Trial

Because of the multiple driving styles and types of cars involved, the convoy often turned into individual cars racing on ahead, then having to wait at various stops along the way for the slower vehicles. In an attempt to keep the convoy together and make it more of a group event, a "Time Trial" system was introduced in 2012. An average time travelling at 60mph has been calculated for each section of the route. Each car will be given a GPS data logger to record how long it took to complete each section, with "points" being gained or lost depending on how close the vehicle's time is to the calculated average.[6]

[edit] References

  1. ↑ Initial proposal on UKFur
  2. ↑ Furball Run 2008 thread on UKFur
  3. ↑ Furball Run 2009 details on LiveJournal
  4. ↑ Furball Run 2010 thread on UKFur
  5. ↑ The Furball Run 2010 Film on UKFur, dated June 13, 2011. retrieved June 13, 2011
  6. ↑ Furball Run 2012 thread on UKFur, retrieved March 31, 2012

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