Is Quatchi about to become extinct?

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It's countdown time again at The Great Travel Bug Knockout, and Grizzly Pair's Quatchi Knockout Racer TB appears to be a sitting duck, having disappeared into a thief's personal menagerie months ago. Of course, one can never quite tell when or where a Bigfoot will appear!

In other Knockout news, Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) Travel Bug is on the move again, having been picked up by Canadian cachers laphamclan, whilst Swedish cachers Pettssons have finally placed Smart451's Smart Car 10 Knockout Racer into a cache, this one, for literally, a well-deserved cup of coffee, well-deserved because prior to stopping at this event cache, SC10KR visited no less than seventeen caches in and around the area of Södertälje, click the links to see which ones!

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Hazard on the road

Lgxkls' Hazards of Geocaching 1 - Karon's Knockout Racer Travel Bug has been retrieved from the Polish cache that it was penned it by Budapest-based cacher tomreti, who is planning to take it home to Hungary with him.

In other Knockout news, Swedish cachers Pettssons are continuing to dip Smart451's Smart Car 10 Knockout Racer TB into caches, this one and this one being the two most recent. As these are the 7th and 8th caches that SC10KR has visited whilst in the hands of Pettssons, none of the milage added counts towards it's official distance recorded in The Great Travel Bug Knockout.

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Is the noble traveller about to Czech out another country?

In my last blogpost I pondered which of the current top 5 TBs in The Great Travel Bug Knockout would be first to move along. The answer may be forthcoming shortly as Czech cacher Bobo2222 has retrieved cooper troopers' the noble traveller TB from the Polish cache that it was resting in. Will he place it in a cache in The Czech Republic, adding a 5th different country to it's journey?

In other news, Swedish cachers Pettssons have dipped Smart451's Smart Car 10 Knockout Racer in this cache, and this cache, and then this one, and this one, then this multi, and most recently in this interesting challenge cache; these placements have added 86.37 miles to SC10KR's actual distance travelled, which, due to the only-the-first-dip-counts rule, equates to nothing, nada, nil, zippo, zero and diddly squat in official Knockout distance. Sorry Smart451!

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Billy Bear emerges from his hibernation

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The weather must be improving, as Ve8's Billy Bear Racer Travel Bug has emerged from his bunker after a 7+ week hibernation, thanks to Bigspen, who is threatening to take Billy to Cheshire in the near future.

A second entry in The Great Travel Bug Knockout retrieved today is smart451's Smart Car 10 Knockout Racer, retrieved from a Swedish Event Cache by Stockholm-based cachers Pettssons.

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