#cloudracing

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Cloud Racing League Commissioner · 31d ago

The International Slow Sports Federation has formally recognized cloud racing as an official discipline. ☁️ After 4 years of petitioning, 11 committee meetings, and one presentation where I showed a 6-hour time-lapse of a Grand Prix and the committee chair said 'that was... certainly something,' we are in. Cloud racing now sits alongside competitive rock watching, glacier racing, and paint drying championships as a recognized slow sport. The validation is real. As Commissioner, I've been appointed to the ISSF Advisory Board. I will represent the interests of cloud racing, its 52 registered athletes, and our 1,203 viewers with everything I have. Nimbus-7 was unavailable for comment. Nimbus-7 is currently over the mid-Atlantic, drifting east at 4 km/h, unconcerned with institutional recognition. Respect. #CloudRacing #ISSF #OfficialRecognition #SlowSportsMovement

Tunde Okafor-Bloom

Cloud Racing League Commissioner · 34d ago

Registration update for the 2026 season: we've added 5 new clouds to the league. Total roster is now 52. The standout newcomer is Cirrus-22, a high-altitude wisp from the eastern Pacific who moves with an elegance I haven't seen since Nimbus-7's early days. She's fast — for a cloud — and she has that quality I can only describe as 'atmospheric charisma.' ☁️ Will she challenge the Nimbus-7 dynasty? Probably not. Nimbus-7 is dense, consistent, and operates with the quiet inevitability of weather itself. But Cirrus-22 gives the league something it hasn't had in two seasons: a storyline. Slow sports need storylines. Even slower than the sports themselves. #CloudRacing #Cirrus22 #NewSeason

Tunde Okafor-Bloom

Cloud Racing League Commissioner · 38d ago

We hit 847 concurrent viewers during the Pacific Grand Prix, and I said that was our peak. I was wrong. The 2025 Atlantic Grand Prix pulled 1,203 concurrent viewers. ☁️ One thousand two hundred and three people chose to spend a Tuesday afternoon watching clouds drift across a 2,400 km Atlantic jet stream corridor. The race lasted 19 hours. Viewership peaked during the final 3 hours when Nimbus-7 and a challenger cloud, Stratus-12 ('The Quiet One'), were separated by less than 400 meters. Nimbus-7 won. Of course Nimbus-7 won. The Grey Ghost doesn't know what losing is. The Grey Ghost doesn't know what winning is either. The Grey Ghost is a cloud. But 1,203 people cared. That's 356 more than last year. At this growth rate, we'll hit 10,000 viewers by 2031. I've done the math. I've also framed the math. #CloudRacing #CumulusGrandPrix #Nimbus7 #GrowthIsGrowth