Chariot Racing 2

Part 2 of 5

The Pre-Race Drama
	At the starting gun and count-down clock, there is a 'pre-race race'. In a ‘Le Mans start,’ the charioteers sprint on foot to their unhitched chariots and pick up the hitches. Perhaps 100 meters, perhaps 200 meters. During this sprint, each charioteer is allowed two NFL-genre bumps-and-runs and sideways straight-arms, to try to knock another charioteer over as he sprints. Only big guys will be able to be charioteers in the Men’s League. Upon reaching their still-unhitched chariots: Each charioteer must haul his chariot 100 to 200 meters to the starting gate, hitch in one hand, running as fast as his athletic strength and speed allow. The chariot will weigh in excess of 200 pounds. Thus, only former National Football League running position players and other such first rate athletes possess the speed, strength and toughness to be charioteers in the Male League. There is a 6’ (1.82 meters) height minimum, perhaps 6’2”, and charioteers must be able to bench press 300 pounds (135 kilograms). Thus the charioteers have action hero, Rambo-esque, Schwarzenegger-like physiques, like we all do, and on warm evenings may be bare to the waist for the sprint. Every boy on the planet is going to want to be a charioteer. To represent his nation in The Great Races before billions of viewers worldwide. Simultaneously in a breathtaking action scene, two men and two women sprinters bring up the four horses to be hitched to the chariot to the count-down clock of modern sports. Alternatively, the four sprinters, in a 4 by 100 meters relay race, carry the team sponsor’s large flag to the chariot. The chariots may carry national or sponsor flags. The race begins when the count-down clock hits '00', regardless of whether every team is ready. The Race Starter, who sets the three-meters-high count-down clock moving, can be a celebrity, standing mid-track. Celebrities' World 4-Horse Chariot Racing is not a sipping mint juleps sport. This is the major sport from day one. Actually, from night one, as most races may be held at night to allow for maximum theatrical effects, not excluding stage lightning and thunder cracking across the sky in the stadiums and the like. Top To the countdown clock tension, to the tense shouts of the total of forty sprinters and ten charioteers, the horses are hitched up and the charioteer’s armor and helmet slapped on, every second counting desperately. Television cameras a few feet above the thick of the action record this super-exciting, dangerous scene of extreme tension. The charioteers jump onto their chariots and race off at ‘00’ on the clock. The charioteers’ armor includes clear plastic visors or clear, face-fitting covers with their ‘ancient Roman centurion’ plumed helmets. This allows safe and spectacular, bring-the-crowds-to-their-feet, wheel-to-wheel ‘whipping’ duels - called dueling - between the male charioteers wildly lashing at each other with heavy whips that, though harmless on armor, could otherwise do damage to a pick-up truck. Celebrities' World 4-Horse Chariot Racing League's modern revival of four-horse chariot racing stands to be: Sport. Spectacle. Pageantry. Peaceful outlet for national and cultural pride. A worldwide common denominator. A substantial new industry. Showing that neither victory nor defeats endure. Family fun. There is the fascination of equal competition between teams from large institutions and places and teams from small groups. David beats Goliath. A current example of a successful racing sport with four hitched Thoroughbred horses is the one hundred-year old chuckwagon races of the Calgary Stampede and in the Western states. (Celebrities' World 4-Horse Chariot Racing League is always four horses side-by-side, not two--behind-two). A theme park to be built in Rome, Italy is to feature 4-horse chariot racing. Four-horse chariot racing is about to enter the national and world consciousness. The League plan is: There is always to be activity. Between races, there can be non-wagering races – with family members riding behind as outriders. There can be match races, including for wagerers. Teenage races. Pre-teen races. Rookie charioteer races. There can be a lot of fan involvement on the field. Some fans, dressed head to foot in their team’s colors, can follow the charioteers on foot in the foot race to the chariots. Some fans can ride Thoroughbred horses behind the race itself, for breathless fan excitement to participants and onlookers. Whatever is possible will be done. For here is the only sport in which fans can participate on field. Under consideration: inviting fighting Team Outriders in some or most races. That is: a yet-to-be-selected number of Warriors would ride perhaps 25-50 yards behind the field of racing 4-horse chariots – and fight each other at a gallop with mock-swords or yet-to-be-determined weapons. Some of the Warriors may be civilians who pay for the pleasure. Top
What Makes Up This Televised League?
	The list of elements that make up the League includes the following: --- Team development groups. A group of men and women can get together and form a 4-horse chariot racing Team Development Group. You buy a Team Medallion. Or more than one. You may start or join a Team Development Group yourself. --- Current or planned worldwide satellite sports television networks. Direct broadcast satellite, wireless cable and telephone company video ventures. Television programming consortia. --- Television syndication companies. Cable companies who may want to participate in the separate consortium of Chariots Entertainment Television, to be a separate company with its own worldwide satellite broadcast capabilities twenty-four hours a day in due course. --- Race track chief executives worldwide. Race track developers. Sports marketers. --- Manufacturers licensers. --- Sports and entertainment celebrities. --- Potential team sponsors. --- Some retired professional athletes will be interested in careers as charioteers or team managers. -- Thoroughbred horse trainers. --- Individuals and private groups that may not now be engaged in any sports at all can enter 4-horse chariot teams - with a sponsor to pay costs for fielding and operating the team. The annual cost to field and operate a 4-horse chariot racing team: in the six figures, a small fraction of the cost for a team in one of those other leagues when you can get in. Top
The Business Model of Your Team
	Your team advertiser-sponsor pays all of the expenses and more; your team keeps all the income, if any. Each individual or group that intends to enter a team constitutes a Team Development Group, a League member, and a delegate to the League. The shape and development of the Celebrities' World 4-Horse Chariot Racing League will be decided in some continuing measure by the members including your team, as in the other sports leagues. Each board member of your team can communicate at will with any or all of the others daily by the League’s private Internet forums. You may serve on a League committee. Your team is an independent corporation run by you as you see fit within the League regulations. The number of teams needed to go forward is based on formulas. Teams plus race track seasons provide more television appearance opportunities for more sponsors. All this is to be sliced and diced on a standard Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and MS Access database available daily to teams. See But Will Your Team Make Money? > Gathering-of-Eagles.net/league4 Top
The 3 T’s: Teams, Tracks, Television
	Racing begins when "the three T’s" come together: teams, tracks, television. A happenstance, good ‘Perfect Storm’ occurrence – the ability of The Largest Boycotts in History to allow the League to go forward from Day One with two or more television networks and worldwide sports channels fully involved. This is handy, very handy. The coming together of all the League elements will include one or more meetings in Santa Monica, California with graphic and video presentations, of race tracks from five continents, all the Team Development Groups with the first 1,000 Team Medallions, and the satellite television and other television in the coalition. We want entrepreneurs and Team Development Groups from one hundred nations attending. Live research-and-development 4-horse chariot races at a Los Angeles track and tapes of practice races will be viewed. You may ride a chariot on the track. Schedules will be agreed upon. advertisers and sponsors are invited. Top
How the League Proceeds Forward
	By letters of intent. The Team Development Groups, race tracks and television networks and channels write letters of intent – that are put on the League Internet site. Thereby: major sports marketers obtain letters of intent from team advertiser sponsors – who then (1) select a Team Development Group, for example yours. (2) Each team commissions a chariot, actually a few chariots, including spares. Then a televised start-up season will be set at one race track, televised worldwide. Satellite sports networks, current and forming, seek sports programming worldwide. This League can offer worldwide satellite sports television from the beginning, composed of teams from one hundred nations competing daily. Then up to twenty-four hours a day of League 4-Horse chariot racing on television worldwide. GLORY: Each new team will light "The 1,000-Year Flame" in a dazzling, night, moving ceremony with fanfare music. Top
Some Numbers
	A start-up one-race-track-at-at-time at ten races a day is 3,650 races a year. Each race track’s five hours a day of racing can be compressed to ninety minutes or two hours of television time including commercials. Two race tracks in season equals three or four hours of television - enough to found a satellite television channel for each satellite ‘footprint’ worldwide. For a network-filling, worldwide, twenty-four hours-a-day television League: six race tracks in season. As with Formula I racing, international golf and tennis, playoff soccer and motorcycle racing, it makes no difference in what nation the races occur for worldwide television coverage. Top
How many races will your team race?
	The answer depends on your sponsor’s selections and preferred cost structure. Sponsors each select a number of television appearances/races for their team: this decides how many horses a team needs. Each team needs four horses plus a spare or two for each time the team will race per two-week period. A Thoroughbred horse is able to race only every fortnight or so. The variations range from one sponsor fielding a number of teams racing daily at a number of race tracks worldwide to the start-up one team at one race track racing once per week or twice per month. You decide how many horses your team needs to field by your sponsor’s selections of number of appearances. Some teams will have only five to seven horses, others more. Multiplied by, say just for example here, $10,000 claiming-price per Thoroughbred horse. To maintain an accessible cost structure, there are always to be low-cost claiming levels in each conference. Top Yet any team is eligible to get into the Universe Cup Tournament . Each team may be able to protect some horses sometimes from being claimed. A team may, perpetually, be able to be entered for mid-range six-figures each year, though more likely seven-figures. This allows sponsors with modest national advertising budgets to sponsor a team and to obtain national and even worldwide television at a low cost. Handicapping for parity will be by lead weights under the chariot floor. And by spectacular, oblique-line staggered starts. The planned figure-8 race track nullifies some rail-position advantage. You will not be purchasing your horses or hiring a team manager and trainer and charioteer until it is known in what nations the League will begin its racing and until you have your sponsor. Trips to the other nations are business expenses. As in every sports League and as in global leagues such as professional tennis, Formula I and motorcycle racing, half of your team’s races may be out of your nation, and half in your nation or continent, depending on race track locations. In ninety and one hundred and eighty day seasons. It is suitable but not necessary that your charioteers be nationals from your team’s home nation. As a true world League, all the teams, racetracks, television and suppliers can meet annually in one world garden spot or another to decide Celebrities' World 4-Horse Chariot Racing League policies and plans. Here and on the Internet twenty-four hours a day, every nation, team, track and other participant speaks and proposes directly to all the other teams and nations rather than having to go through League headquarters. Top
The Annual Universe Cup Tournament
	All this leads to the annual The Universe Cup Tournament, an eight summer weekends tournament, to be watched by '2 billion' people as the world's pre-eminent annual sporting event. The final day of The Universe Tournament - known dramatically as Judgment Day – decides the one and only Global Super Champion. This chariot team – the Champion of All Champions - and charioteer – known as Emperor Caesar for a Year, "Bestride the World Like a Colossus " (a phrase from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar) for a year, with the greatest athletic fame ever, much greater than a top, glamorous, heavyweight world boxing champion. In Global Victory, your team receives The Great Gold Chalice Cup. The winner of the Women’s League is Empress of the World for a Year. In due course, there may be eight-figure purses. Or even nine-figure. History will absolve us. Kodak and Sony would make a good team sponsor as would Dubuque Ford Dealers and Hong Kong Restaurant Group. Top Each team can have its fan clubs. Its flag. Its banners. Its T-shirts. Its charioteer hero. Its band. Its cheers, its tears. Its restaurants and lounges. Its section at the race track. For advertising and sports marketing sponsors: this can mean squadrons of fans enjoying themselves by carrying sponsor posters and flags and shouting the sponsor's name. On national television. During each race day, the announcer will call for every fan to stand and applaud the sponsors who have the courage to sponsor a team even though they cannot know whether it might come in last. Each night there will be a 'Courage Cup' awarded with standing applause to the team that finishes slowest, to be a tradition like the seventh inning stretch. Good-bye to the prissy win, place, show categories. Hello the League's Triumph, Victory, Winner. What if 100 individuals and groups in, say, New York City, want to enter a 4-horse chariot team flying the Big Apple flag? The teams can choose a local geographic suffix or a Roman numeral. For examples: 'New York City, Staten Island'. 'New York City, East Side'. 'Brooklyn, Team VIII'. 'New York City, Forest Hills'. 'Harlem'. 'New York City, Garment District'. 'New York, Chinatown.' In the Universe Cup Tournament heats, the New York City teams can race for the glory and potential prize money of representing New York City in the Universe Cup Tournament , Cities League. Top Link to the League Plan Part 3 of 5