I think the reason the Corp. Teams are catered to is because they pull most of the fundraising weight. They said at the omni start that of the 17 mil. Last year, 14 was raised by teams. My team was about 100 people and I didn't know a lot of them. I can only imagine riding with BP, they had over 700!
I've done these rides without teams and most of the issues you guys were having could have been solved by reading the site and looking at the maps.
Also, driving 1000 miles to ride 100 was pretty dumb (hhh) but it's a fun ride and everyone should do it at least once
