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2022
-KGC 2022 General Race Updates- | Monday, 8 p.m.
2022 Kinetic Award Winners
All hail your new Kinetic Grand Champions! After three days of grueling pedaling, Humpbacks of Notre Dame were acknowledged for the giant splash they made during the 2022 race with their innovative and colorful art, costumes and pageantry. Kongrats, krew!
Scroll down for the rest of the top award winners.
2022 KINETIC GRAND CHAMPION
Humpbacks of Norte Dame
Best Art
1st: KHAM
2nd: Bee Here Now - Team Half Fast
3rd: Hela Glorious
Best Engineering
1st: Cowbell Moosical Theater
2nd: Tempus Fugitives - Preying Menace
3rd: LiveWrong
Best Speed
1st: Lemonheads (12:35)
2nd: LiveWrong (13:32)
3rd: Wing Nuts (13:37)
Best Pageantry
1st: LiveWrong
2nd: KHAM
3rd: Tempus Fugitives - Preying Menace
2019
-General Race Updates- | Monday, 6:37 p.m.
2019 Kinetic Award Winners
Tri-peat! Your 2019 Kinetic Grand Champions react to their historic win
Triple the glory!
After three days of grueling sand, water and asphalt, local art nerds gathered in Ferndale Monday night to crown their 2019 Kinetic Grand Champion. This year’s winner is a familiar one to kinetics fans: For the third year in a row Team Trilobike showed their speed, art and engineering prowess to claim the event’s most coveted prize. Tri-peat achieved.
The feat holds some added significance for Trilobike team captain Steve McHaney. Before this year’s race, McHaney announced that this year’s race would be his last as a racer.
“It’s one of this things that sometimes in life you have to close one chapter and start another,” the retiring champion said. “And so the era of the Trilobike and this kind of art, that chapter is closing. I’m not going to do this anymore, but it’s really been awesome.”
McHaney added that while his pedaling days may be over he doesn’t plan to abandon kinetics. He plans to take a year off to see his son graduate school but then he plans to return to the race as a “peon” (kinetic lingo for non-racers who toil to help produce the event). And like a good kinetic championship, McHaney stayed on script to close out tonight’s festivities.
“There’s one las thing I want to say,” he said. “It’s for the glory!”
Scroll down for a list of the rest of this year’s award winners. Glory, glory, hallelujah!
-2019 Kinetic Grand Championship Awards-
2019 Kinetic Grand Champions
Best Engineering
- 1st: Lion Kings of Rock ‘n’ Roll
- 2nd: Wheels of Dharma
- 3rd: Bounce For Glory
Best Art
- 1st: Madonna, Queen of Pop…Corn
- 2nd: Wheels of Dharma
- 3rd: Rad Science
Best Speed
- 1st: Sparky the Foster Dog
- 2nd: Wheels of Dharma
- 3rd: Bounce For Glory
Best Pageantry
- 1st: Rad Science
- 2nd: Space Force!
- 3rd: Lion Kings of Rock ‘n’ Roll
2019 ACE Award Professors
- Trilobike Carnival
- Sparky the Foster Dog
- Wheels of Dharma
- Bounce For Glory
- Lion Kings of Rock ‘n’ Roll
- Bikin’ Fools
- Truck a Duck
- Temple of the Sun
- Huggin’ Dogs
- Tuggin’ For Glory
Mediocre Award (For Team That Finishes in the Middle of the Pack)
Racers’ Choice Award
Most Improved
Best Junior Award
Best Pit Crew
Best Campsite
Best Bribe
6:32 Award
Lifetime Achievement Award
- Joe
Best Volunteer
- Team Weld Your Stuff
Goddess Jen-O Award
Port Townsend Award
Biggest Splash Award
The Golden Dinosaur Award
- Tuggin’ For Glory
The Golden Flipper Award (Water)
The Golden Flipper Award (Sand)
The Spirit of the Glorious Founder Award
One for the Little Guy
Second to Last Award
Spectators’ Favorite
The Never Give Up Award
Teddy Bear Award
They Came From Out of Town
You Clever Rascal (Best Engineering for a Non-ACE Machine)
The Supernatural Award
2019 Blue Hawaii | Monday, 4:40 p.m.
Glory Shots
2019 Lion Kings of Rock-n-Roll | Monday, 4:40 p.m.
Glory Shots
2019 Hippiepotamus | Monday, 4:39 p.m.
Glory Shots
2019 Peace Peddlers | Monday, 4:35 p.m.
Glory Shots
2019 Who's Your Papa? | Monday, 4:35 p.m.
Glory Shots
2019 A-Team | Monday, 4:35 p.m.
Glory Shots
2019 Tuggin' For Glory | Monday, 4:35 p.m.
Glory Shots
2019 Needs More Cowbell | Monday, 4:35 p.m.
Glory Shots
2019 Working Class Hero | Monday, 4:35 p.m.
Glory Shots
2019 Party Pump | Monday, 4:35 p.m.
Glory Shots
2019 Melvin | Monday, 4:35 p.m.
Glory Shots
2019 Corpie Cruisers 1 | Monday, 4:35 p.m.
Glory Shots
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