Press Release 2007-004 - Space Elevator Games Status.
Who: The Spaceward Foundation, organizer of the Space Elevator games.
What: First results of the 2007 Space Elevator Games.
When: October 18, 2007.
Where: Davis County Fairgrounds, North of Salt Lake City, UT
Why: First teams to qualify for weekend finals
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Kansas City Space Pirates Qualifies for Finals. Space Elevator Games updated schedule for October 19 – 21
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Farmington, UT; OCTOBER 18, 2007 – The Kansas City Space Pirates this week became the first team to qualify after easily scaling the 30 m (100') qualifying vertical race track at about 3 meter per second – well in excess of the 1 m/s required.
Brian Turner, Team Captain: "You never know if it's all going to come together until it does... The Kansas City Space Pirates are now officially the most powerful team under the Sun."
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