Placements: Safe and Risky!

No sooner has Hediya entered The Great Travel Bug Knockout than she has placed her Love and Peace (Maan) Travel Bug into this cache in the Nottinghamshire section of the controversial, but generally excellent and much-visited, multi-Cache Owner Skeg to Ness mega-series. At the same time Happy Humphrey took the opportunity to place his Scary Halloween Monster TB into the same cache. Could this be a mistake or masterstroke? Two TBs in the same cache could attract more finders, but maybe the finders will choose one TB over the other...

Intriguingly enough, castlegrice have also chosen to place their George's Fun Bus 2 Travel Bug into another cache in the Skeg to Ness series, only 6 caches further along! Will all three entries be retrieved by the same cacher?

So much for the safe options, cooper troopers have taken the risky move of placing their the noble traveller TB into an unpublished cache off of the B5057 near Darley Dale. If the cache is quickly published then there will be guaranteed visitors, but if the cache is not promptly listed at geocaching.com, then it could sit in limbo for some time... a risky gamble, but it could pay-off.

EDIT: 1/1/10; As the cache has now been published, I've edited out the link to the map and added a link to Darley Dale. STP

And the Lucky 13th entry is...

Love and Peace (Maan)

The latest, and most hippy-tastic, entry in The Great Travel Bug Knockout, entered by (very) infrequent Nottinghamshire cacher Hediya, wife of fellow entrant Happy Humphrey.

As the thirteenth entry, this means that The Great Travel Bug Knockout is now guaranteed to last for a year. I hope that no-one gets bored!

Two more entries dropped off

Smart451 have placed their Smart Car 10 rather cheekily into my own BPJC: M1 Junction 29 cache, east of Chesterfield, Derbyshire's largest town.

Not to be left out, thejellybabies have placed their My Little Eye Travel Bug into this cache in neighbouring Nottinghamshire.

That makes a dozen!

Nottingham cacher Jacaru has entered a Travel Bug with instructions in its name;

Knockout Ferrari

I'm sure that the rest of us will try very hard to oblige! Of course with twelve entries received, just one more will guarantee that The Great Travel Bug Knockout will last for a whole year, so who will be lucky entry no.13?

First placement

My own The Exterminator! has become the first entry in The Great Travel Bug Knockout to be logged into a cache when I placed it in this TB Hotel between Middlesbrough and Hartlepool in the UK at 7:20 BST this morning (still Summer Time, surely not?!).

How long will The Exterminator! have to wait to be picked up and, more importantly, dropped off somewhere?

Now, which entry will be second to be logged into a cache?

Wanna see something really scary?

In that case, here's the 11th entry for The Great Travel Bug Knockout, longtime cacher Happy Humphrey's Scary Halloween Monster;

Oo, I can hardly bear to look!

The Smartest entry?

Derbyshire cachers Smart451 have submitted the 10th entry for The Great Travel Bug Knockout, and of course it is a Smart car;

Well, what else could Smart Car 10 be?



Ve8 is no.9!

Ve8 is the new caching i.d. of an experienced East Midlands cacher, and co-founder of EmCache, the website for the East Midlands caching community. His entry for The Great Travel Bug Knockout is:

Billy Bear Racer

Who, judging by his dancing, must be the missing third Jedward brother!

Meet the first overseas entry in The Great Travel Bug Knockout

Ohio, U.S.A. based cacher fuzziebear3 becomes The Great Travel Bug Knockout's first overseas challenger with her entry,

Happy Hoppy

How long will it be before Hoppy loses that inane grin?



The 7th entry into The Great Travel Bug Knockout is just asking for it!

We all know Who The Exterminator! would really love to exterminate, so are Derbyshire caching family cooper troopers asking for trouble by entering a miniature TARDIS as their TB in The Great Travel Bug Knockout?

Meet:

the noble traveller



Is the 6th entry a myth or a hoax?

Actually, it's neither as

Quatchi

Is quite real and has been entered by longtime Midlands cachers Grizzly Pair. Will this Big Foot be leaving his footprints around The World or will he soon be just a half-forgotten legend?

Will BraveHeart win fair trophy?

Nottingham cacher Blid435 has, unlike oceanblue07970, been whole-hearted in support of The Great Travel Bug Knockout by entering

BraveHeart

as the fifth Travel Bug in the competition. Now I just can't wait for it to be eliminated so I can use a "The Knockout Is Heartless" type pun!

Last date for acceptance of entries

As I have received comments that the ten days or so until the start of The Great Travel Bug Knockout is too short a time for some prospective entrants to prepare their Travel Bugs, I will allow entries to be placed up to November 30th. The first elimination will take place on December 1st, and after this time no new entries will be accepted, except for replacements for TBs that have definitely been muggled.

You can place your TB into it's first cache at any time from October 30th until November 30th, but the later you leave it, the less time it will have to move.

Also, just to reiterate that your TB can be any item, but must be attached to a standard Travel Bug Dog Tag. This is to make it fair to every entrant that anyone who retrieves the TB will receive the same icon, and to avoid an entrant entering a geocoin or tag with an unusual and rare icon.

If you have any questions at all, just post a comment. It won't appear immediately as I am moderating them to avoid annoying spam appearing, but I'll okay them as soon as I can.

Happy racing, STP

A fourth race entry received

Derby caching family oceanblue07970 have entered their Half Hearted Travel Bug into The Great Travel Bug Knockout. Hopefully they won't be broken hearted when they're eliminated!

Half Hearted

Off to a flyer?

This is a flyer that I distributed at EmCache's 2nd Birthday Bash event last night. Hopefully it will bring in some additional race entries!