5...4...3...2...1...
With only 5 days until the next Elimination Day, it appears that wemnog's hopes for a Knockout win for his Travel Bug The Skylark may have run aground, as although Stompy&Stampy dropped the little sailing boat into this cache (after dipping it into 26 other caches first, of course!). After a week's rest it was retrieved by cacher scott_ie89, who dipped it into this cache, adding a scant 0.54 of a mile to it's distance travelled. He has since dipped the tiny dinghy into 33 more caches, then re-visited 4, and has retained possession. The Skylark has now been logged into 225 caches (including 6 repeat visits)!
Despite all this activity, that teeny .54 of a mile has proven insufficient to hold back mat smith's Hazards of Geocaching 2 (The Sheep) John's Knockout Racer TB, which was retrieved from this Portuguese cache by Dutch cacher bachjes, who is threatening to take it back to The Netherlands with him. Assuming that the previous holder of HoG2, Wild_Lion, placed the woolly trackable directly into the cache, the distance added is 78.09 miles. What is it about Portuguese cachers and their reluctance to log TBs into and/or out of caches?
Another place change this time too, as although cacher Taubacher finally dropped off lgxkls' Hazards of Geocaching 1 - Karon's Knockout Racer TB into this German cache (after a couple of abortive dips), no actual official Knockout milage has been added due to the Only The First Dip By A Cacher Counts rule. Therefore, after cacher Svenimateur placed Smart451's Smart Car 10 Knockout Racer Travel Bug into this German cache adding 161.21 miles and fellow German cacher Fo0dy moved the little car along to this cache, adding another 7.02 miles, SC10KR has moved into 5th place overall in The Great Travel Bug Knockout. Interestingly, affter visiting Spain, Slovenia, Italy, Austria and Norway, these two entries are now in caches less than 60 miles apart. Small World eh?
Finally for this update, cacher Radijs placed cooper troopers' the noble traveller TB into this cache, adding another 3.02 miles to it's total distance travelled.
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Saturday, 27 August 2011
Thursday, 11 August 2011
A rare change in The Knockout rankings
...as wemnog's The Skylark Travel Bug moves ahead of mat smith's Hazards of Geocaching 2 (The Sheep) John's Knockout Racer TB. The Skylark was retrieved from the Cornish cache that it was moored in by local cachers Stompy&Stampy who then proceeded to take the little dinghy on a busy caching trip, managing to visit 141 caches in the next 5 days! Unfortunately for wemnog, almost all of this effort by Stompy&Stampy was wasted as Rule no.3 of The Great Travel Bug Knockout states:
3. Only the first move by a cacher will count. Reason: This will not stop "dippers" from doing their thing, but it does mean that only their first dip counts.
The first cache that The Skylark visited whilst in the hands of S&S was this one in Warwickshire, which added 191.99 miles to it's distance travelled, sufficient to enable it to leapfrog mat smith's recently returned-to-action HoG2 Bug into 8th place overall in The Knockout.
I'm not going to link to all of the remaining 140 caches that The Skylark has been dipped into, you can find that here if you're the obsessive type, just mention that as well as Warwickshire it also visited caches in South Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Oxfordshire, Herefordshire and Wiltshire, including both this cache and this one which it has visited previously.
Current 2nd-placed Knockout entry, Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) TB was placed into this brand-new Canadian cache by MaliBooBoo, adding 25.9 miles to it's distance travelled. It was retrieved 3 days later by fellow British Columbians Bull&Tink.
Cooper troopers' the noble traveller TB has also been keeping on the move, Dutch cacher slottys placing it into this puzzle cache (the Dutch love their puzzle caches and their multis!) adding 83.97 miles to it's odometer. It didn't hang around however, as it was retrieved 2 days later by local cacher Radijs.
Not too far to the south in Belgium, current playground of oceanblue07970's Half Hearted Travel Bug, which cachers leffe&duvel placed into this multicache, 29.68 miles away from the cache that they retrieved it from. It was almost immediately picked up by local cacher Verborgen Boswitje.
Meanwhile, to the east, lgxkls' Hazards of Geocaching 1 - Karon's Knockout Racer TB was retrieved by German cacher Taubacher from the Italian cache that it had been left in. He has logged an intention to take HoG1 to Germany, but in the meantime stopped off in Austria (which the little bovine briefly visited in April) to dip it into this cache (adding 38.3 miles to it's total distance), this one (adding nothing) and this one (ditto!).
Finally, commiserations to castlegrice, whose George's Fun Bus 2 Bug has been placed into this Spanish cache, which would have added sufficient milage to save the little camper van from the scrapyard, but it came just 9 days too late!
STOP THE BLOG!! Just received word that German geocacher CryptoBLN retrieved current Knockout leader, Team Blid435's BraveHeart TB from the New Zealand cache that it has been languishing in for the last 2 months and dropped it into this more regularly visited one 1.35 miles along the coast. Well, at least he didn't take it back to Germany with him! (Team Blid435 - that's new!).
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...and I haven't forgotten about the promised mid-race round-up. I'll post it as soon as I have time!
3. Only the first move by a cacher will count. Reason: This will not stop "dippers" from doing their thing, but it does mean that only their first dip counts.
The first cache that The Skylark visited whilst in the hands of S&S was this one in Warwickshire, which added 191.99 miles to it's distance travelled, sufficient to enable it to leapfrog mat smith's recently returned-to-action HoG2 Bug into 8th place overall in The Knockout.
I'm not going to link to all of the remaining 140 caches that The Skylark has been dipped into, you can find that here if you're the obsessive type, just mention that as well as Warwickshire it also visited caches in South Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Oxfordshire, Herefordshire and Wiltshire, including both this cache and this one which it has visited previously.
Current 2nd-placed Knockout entry, Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) TB was placed into this brand-new Canadian cache by MaliBooBoo, adding 25.9 miles to it's distance travelled. It was retrieved 3 days later by fellow British Columbians Bull&Tink.
Cooper troopers' the noble traveller TB has also been keeping on the move, Dutch cacher slottys placing it into this puzzle cache (the Dutch love their puzzle caches and their multis!) adding 83.97 miles to it's odometer. It didn't hang around however, as it was retrieved 2 days later by local cacher Radijs.
Not too far to the south in Belgium, current playground of oceanblue07970's Half Hearted Travel Bug, which cachers leffe&duvel placed into this multicache, 29.68 miles away from the cache that they retrieved it from. It was almost immediately picked up by local cacher Verborgen Boswitje.
Meanwhile, to the east, lgxkls' Hazards of Geocaching 1 - Karon's Knockout Racer TB was retrieved by German cacher Taubacher from the Italian cache that it had been left in. He has logged an intention to take HoG1 to Germany, but in the meantime stopped off in Austria (which the little bovine briefly visited in April) to dip it into this cache (adding 38.3 miles to it's total distance), this one (adding nothing) and this one (ditto!).
Finally, commiserations to castlegrice, whose George's Fun Bus 2 Bug has been placed into this Spanish cache, which would have added sufficient milage to save the little camper van from the scrapyard, but it came just 9 days too late!
STOP THE BLOG!! Just received word that German geocacher CryptoBLN retrieved current Knockout leader, Team Blid435's BraveHeart TB from the New Zealand cache that it has been languishing in for the last 2 months and dropped it into this more regularly visited one 1.35 miles along the coast. Well, at least he didn't take it back to Germany with him! (Team Blid435 - that's new!).
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...and I haven't forgotten about the promised mid-race round-up. I'll post it as soon as I have time!
Monday, 11 July 2011
Which entry has more than doubled it's distance travelled?
...the answer is oceanblue07970's Half Hearted Travel Bug, which was picked up from the French cache that it was resting in by French cacher ptittomtom, who then placed it into this cache in the Catalan speaking area of the French Pyreneés close to the border with Spain. This move added 453.57 miles to HH's distance travelled, more than doubling it's milage and moving the shiny little TB up 2 places in The Great Travel Bug Knockout's rankings.
This is bad news for castlegrice's George's Fun Bus 2 TB, which only just squeaked through last month's Elimination Day and now has to travel more than 300 miles to exceed the distance travelled by wemnog's The Skylark Travel Bug, which is made even more difficult by the tiny dinghy tendency to continually make little moves, which of course all add up; The Skylark's latest move added 27.35 miles to it's total distance when cacher Oofy placed it into this Essex cache.
Another entry making a move this week, albeit a much smaller one, was current 2nd-placed entry, Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) TB which was retrieved by cachers Volkswag, who dipped it into this cache adding 0.56 of a mile to it's distance travelled. They subsequently dipped Love and Peace (Maan) into 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 more caches (the last one is a Virtual!), none of which add any official distance to LaP(Maan)'s record due to The Great Travel Bug Knockout's only-the-first-dip-by-a-cacher-counts rule.
Finally, two more entries have been retrieved recently, although neither has yet been placed into a cache; Smart451's Smart Car 10 Knockout Racer may finally be waving goodbye to Sweden after being picked up by Bavarian cacher SuRosis who is planning to take the little white car back to Germany with them, and cooper troopers' the noble traveller TB, which has been snaffled-up by Dutch cacher Schaduw1, who posted the following snap of the tiny TARDIS:
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This is bad news for castlegrice's George's Fun Bus 2 TB, which only just squeaked through last month's Elimination Day and now has to travel more than 300 miles to exceed the distance travelled by wemnog's The Skylark Travel Bug, which is made even more difficult by the tiny dinghy tendency to continually make little moves, which of course all add up; The Skylark's latest move added 27.35 miles to it's total distance when cacher Oofy placed it into this Essex cache.
Another entry making a move this week, albeit a much smaller one, was current 2nd-placed entry, Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) TB which was retrieved by cachers Volkswag, who dipped it into this cache adding 0.56 of a mile to it's distance travelled. They subsequently dipped Love and Peace (Maan) into 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 more caches (the last one is a Virtual!), none of which add any official distance to LaP(Maan)'s record due to The Great Travel Bug Knockout's only-the-first-dip-by-a-cacher-counts rule.
Finally, two more entries have been retrieved recently, although neither has yet been placed into a cache; Smart451's Smart Car 10 Knockout Racer may finally be waving goodbye to Sweden after being picked up by Bavarian cacher SuRosis who is planning to take the little white car back to Germany with them, and cooper troopers' the noble traveller TB, which has been snaffled-up by Dutch cacher Schaduw1, who posted the following snap of the tiny TARDIS:
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Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Double Knockout blow for Jacaru's Ferrari?
Jacaru's Knockout Ferrari Travel Bug has suffered a possible double K.O. this week, as firstly it lost it's long-held second place in The Great Travel Bug Knockout to Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) TB, and then was reported missing by the most recent finder of the cache that it was logged into...!
Speaking of The Knockout's new second-postition holder; Canadian cacher DisneyGirl took LaP(Maan) to this cache in the Alaskan city of Skagway (population 862 - not overly populated for a city!) but the cache was too full to leave it, so just dipped the love-spreading traveller, adding 880.07 miles to it's distance travelled, sufficient to nose ahead of Knockout Ferrari into second place overall. DisneyGirl subsequently dipped LaP(Maan) into this cache too (no milage added due to The Knockout's now infamous first-dip-by-each-cacher-only-to-count rule!) and has retained possession of the Bug.
Other entries on the move include cooper troopers' the noble traveller TB, which has materialised in this cache at the peculiar EuroAirport, which has official joint French and Swiss nationality, and has free access from Germany too. This drop has added 11.73 miles to tnt's race distance, and marks the little TARDIS' second visit to France.
Cooper troopers' friendly local rivals, Smart451 have seen their own Smart Car 10 Knockout Racer Travel Bug log some distance too, firstly cacher pensionist dropped it into this cache in Uppsala, Sweden, adding 119.71 miles to it's official Knockout distance travelled. It was quickly retrieved by visiting Czech cacher satanmar who the very same day placed the little car into this cache 0.44 of a mile away.
Finally, wemnog's The Skylark TB (which has covered 648.81 miles, despite not yet leaving England) has been picked up by cachers theleverets, whom I believe are based in Surrey.
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Speaking of The Knockout's new second-postition holder; Canadian cacher DisneyGirl took LaP(Maan) to this cache in the Alaskan city of Skagway (population 862 - not overly populated for a city!) but the cache was too full to leave it, so just dipped the love-spreading traveller, adding 880.07 miles to it's distance travelled, sufficient to nose ahead of Knockout Ferrari into second place overall. DisneyGirl subsequently dipped LaP(Maan) into this cache too (no milage added due to The Knockout's now infamous first-dip-by-each-cacher-only-to-count rule!) and has retained possession of the Bug.
Other entries on the move include cooper troopers' the noble traveller TB, which has materialised in this cache at the peculiar EuroAirport, which has official joint French and Swiss nationality, and has free access from Germany too. This drop has added 11.73 miles to tnt's race distance, and marks the little TARDIS' second visit to France.
Cooper troopers' friendly local rivals, Smart451 have seen their own Smart Car 10 Knockout Racer Travel Bug log some distance too, firstly cacher pensionist dropped it into this cache in Uppsala, Sweden, adding 119.71 miles to it's official Knockout distance travelled. It was quickly retrieved by visiting Czech cacher satanmar who the very same day placed the little car into this cache 0.44 of a mile away.
Finally, wemnog's The Skylark TB (which has covered 648.81 miles, despite not yet leaving England) has been picked up by cachers theleverets, whom I believe are based in Surrey.
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Saturday, 16 April 2011
Confused? You Will Be!
Okay, first a little background; when I started The Great Travel Bug Knockout I decided not to allow multiple placings (known as "dips") to count towards an entry's total milage, so as not to give an unfair advantage to a TB that is picked up by a regular long-distance traveller. All three Bugs that have been moved in the last week have therefore had some or all of it's recent milage disallowed.
Firstly, current Knockout leader, Blid435's BraveHeart has had all of it's dips by New Zealand cacher willbuild disallowed apart from the first one. How many dips have been disallowed? Well, let's count them, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42! After all that diptastic action, willbuild finally placed BH into this picturesque cache which he owns.
Next up is Jacaru's Knockout Ferrari TB, which cacher Anothercell placed into this cache on the busy U.S. Interstate Highway 5. Mysteriously, this log was deleted and KF was then dipped into this cache instead, then this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one and this one, before eventually being logged into Along the 5 again. As the difference between being placed directly into Along the 5 and being dipped into 1-Carrot-But NO BLING! is less than a mile, I've allowed the corrected order to stand.
Finally, G-X's Voodoo Whodo Whatever... TB was placed into an event cache named Dragon Motor Meet. Shortly afterwards the event was re-named Deceangi (The Boss's) Suprise Party and was revealed to be a surprise 50th Birthday party for Geocaching.com's head U.K. cache reviewer Deceangi. VWWYDDDP was retrieved from the event by cachers The GeoBEATS, who dipped it in this Cheshire cache, adding 39.54 miles to it's total distance travelled, before placing it into this cache, also in Cheshire.
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Firstly, current Knockout leader, Blid435's BraveHeart has had all of it's dips by New Zealand cacher willbuild disallowed apart from the first one. How many dips have been disallowed? Well, let's count them, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42! After all that diptastic action, willbuild finally placed BH into this picturesque cache which he owns.
Next up is Jacaru's Knockout Ferrari TB, which cacher Anothercell placed into this cache on the busy U.S. Interstate Highway 5. Mysteriously, this log was deleted and KF was then dipped into this cache instead, then this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one and this one, before eventually being logged into Along the 5 again. As the difference between being placed directly into Along the 5 and being dipped into 1-Carrot-But NO BLING! is less than a mile, I've allowed the corrected order to stand.
Finally, G-X's Voodoo Whodo Whatever... TB was placed into an event cache named Dragon Motor Meet. Shortly afterwards the event was re-named Deceangi (The Boss's) Suprise Party and was revealed to be a surprise 50th Birthday party for Geocaching.com's head U.K. cache reviewer Deceangi. VWWYDDDP was retrieved from the event by cachers The GeoBEATS, who dipped it in this Cheshire cache, adding 39.54 miles to it's total distance travelled, before placing it into this cache, also in Cheshire.
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Sunday, 3 April 2011
Plenty more miles for BraveHeart
The newbies from New Zealand, FlipDags, have proven that they know what they're doing by moving the current leader of The Great Travel Bug Knockout, Blid435's BraveHeart TB to this cache 73.84 miles to the South-East. I've only just noticed how all geocaches in New Zealand seem to include the area of the country that it is located in as a parenthesized addition to the cache's name, I wonder why this is?
In other Knockout news, Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) TB may have outstayed it's welcome in The Frozen North, as no cacher was interested enough in it to retrieve it from the Event Cache that it visited on Friday, so the event organiser, Chewy_06, has logged LaP(Maan) into his inventory.
Finally, Hungarian cacher tomreti has dipped lgxkls' Hazards of Geocaching 1 - Karon's Knockout Racer Bug into this fascinating cache in Budapest, but no milage has been added to HoG1's distance travelled as this is the second cache that tomreti has taken the bovine trackable too.
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In other Knockout news, Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) TB may have outstayed it's welcome in The Frozen North, as no cacher was interested enough in it to retrieve it from the Event Cache that it visited on Friday, so the event organiser, Chewy_06, has logged LaP(Maan) into his inventory.
Finally, Hungarian cacher tomreti has dipped lgxkls' Hazards of Geocaching 1 - Karon's Knockout Racer Bug into this fascinating cache in Budapest, but no milage has been added to HoG1's distance travelled as this is the second cache that tomreti has taken the bovine trackable too.
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Sunday, 27 March 2011
Is Quatchi about to become extinct?
5...4...3...2...1...
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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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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Tuesday, 15 March 2011
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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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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Saturday, 12 March 2011
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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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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Monday, 21 February 2011
The Bus stops, but Love & Peace keeps moving
Cachers Sweeney Toddlers have placed castlegrice's George's Fun Bus 2 Travel Bug into this letterbox hybrid cache in Palacerigg Country Park in North Lanarkshire. As this placement came after Sweeney Toddlers had previously dipped GFB2 several times, no milage has been added to it's official distance travelled in The Great Travel Bug Knockout.
As George's Fun Bus 2 was being placed into a 5½ years old cache in Scotland, Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) TB was being retrieved from a 1-day old cache in Canada. The First-to-Find of Y Not #14 turned her nose up at LaP(Maan), but 2nd-to-Find, local cacher sunpeaks, found Hediya's trackable irresistable.
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As George's Fun Bus 2 was being placed into a 5½ years old cache in Scotland, Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) TB was being retrieved from a 1-day old cache in Canada. The First-to-Find of Y Not #14 turned her nose up at LaP(Maan), but 2nd-to-Find, local cacher sunpeaks, found Hediya's trackable irresistable.
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Friday, 18 February 2011
Braveheart extends it's lead
New Zealand cacher cabhassett dipped Blid435's Braveheart Travel Bug in this cache in Napier, New Zealand, extending it's lead in The Great Travel Bug Knockout by 61.79 miles. Cabhassett then dipped Braveheart into this cache, this cache and this cache, none of which adds milage for the purposes of The Knockout due to contravention of rule no.3 Only The First Move By A Cacher will Count.
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Monday, 14 February 2011
A tale of distance allowed ...and distance disallowed!
Cacher Nottinghamman has placed wemnog's The Skylark Travel Bug into this interesting Derbyshire cache, overlooking Sir Richard Arkwright's historic Masson Mills, adding 6.72 miles to it's distance sailed. It may be moored here for some time as this is quite a tricky cache to find; I logged a DNF myself on it a few weeks ago and a cacher has already logged a DNF since The Skylark was dropped into it.
The Skylark is barely a quarter of a mile ahead of castlegrice's George's Fun Bus 2 TB in the current Great Travel Bug Knockout placings, after the little VW was retrieved from the Glasgow cache that it was (briefly) resting in by Scottish cachers Sweeney Toddlers. The puntastic Toddlers then dipped GFB2 into this cache, adding 7.8 miles to it's distance travelled, and then this one, adding nothing, and then this one, again adding nothing. The reason that the last two dips adding nothing to GFB2's distance is because only the first placement by a cacher counts towards a Travel Bug's total distance.
Speaking of disallowed milage, current Knockout leader, Blid435's Braveheart TB has been placed into this cache, near to the ghost town of Opepe, but as with George's Fun Bus 2's most recent moves, no distance travelled will be added to Braveheart's official Knockout distance.
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The Skylark is barely a quarter of a mile ahead of castlegrice's George's Fun Bus 2 TB in the current Great Travel Bug Knockout placings, after the little VW was retrieved from the Glasgow cache that it was (briefly) resting in by Scottish cachers Sweeney Toddlers. The puntastic Toddlers then dipped GFB2 into this cache, adding 7.8 miles to it's distance travelled, and then this one, adding nothing, and then this one, again adding nothing. The reason that the last two dips adding nothing to GFB2's distance is because only the first placement by a cacher counts towards a Travel Bug's total distance.
Speaking of disallowed milage, current Knockout leader, Blid435's Braveheart TB has been placed into this cache, near to the ghost town of Opepe, but as with George's Fun Bus 2's most recent moves, no distance travelled will be added to Braveheart's official Knockout distance.
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Sunday, 16 January 2011
Bigfoot Quatchi take a step forward
Cacher al60uk has placed Grizzly Pair's Quatchi - Grizzly's Knockout Racer Travel Bug into this cache in the West Midlands, adding 30.34 miles to it's distance travelled, enabling Quatchi to move up to a current 12th place in The Great Travel Bug Knockout, just one place behind Ve8's Billy Bear Racer TB, which cacher Bigspen has now dropped into this Derbyshire cache. This cache is close to a now-failed theme park. As this is the 11th cache that Bigspen took BBR to, the 48.1 miles to this cache from Wonderful Wistaston 4 have not been added to the TB's official distance travelled.
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Wednesday, 12 January 2011
It's dip-dip-dip and loads of dips more for Billy Bear Racer
Cacher Bigspen took Ve8's Billy Bear Racer Travel Bug to this cache in Cheshire, adding 51.75 miles to BBR's distance travelled.
He then took Billy to this cache, this cache, this cache and this one.
Then a couple of days later he took Billy to this cache, this cache, this cache, this cache and this one, none of which, due to Rule no.3, count for the purposes of The Great Travel Bug Knockout. Bigspen has kept hold of BBR, so there may be more dips to come!
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He then took Billy to this cache, this cache, this cache and this one.
Then a couple of days later he took Billy to this cache, this cache, this cache, this cache and this one, none of which, due to Rule no.3, count for the purposes of The Great Travel Bug Knockout. Bigspen has kept hold of BBR, so there may be more dips to come!
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Tuesday, 23 November 2010
A bit of everything; placements, retrievals, grabbing, missing and disallowed milage!
Relative newbies to caching, rallisalli & hawkeye, who claim that their occupation is having fun (my kind of job!) have retrieved cooper troopers' the noble traveller from Round The Bend From Yonder Man! They also took possession of oceanblue07970's Half Hearted Travel Bug by grabbing it from this Derbyshire cache near the famous village of Eyam. Half Hearted had been placed into this cache by newbie cacher the-scout, who may or may not be related to the TBs owner ;-)
After a little argy-bargy with Half Hearted being grabbed back and logged in and out and so-forth, the end result is an opening distance of 13.84 miles being recorded for the broken-hearted trackable, almost enough to jump it into the Top Ten entries in The Great Travel Bug Knockout.
There's been a second instance of disallowed milage, as cacher Baira has transferred Happy Humphrey's Scary Halloween Monster TB from her temporarily disabled In Search Of The Golden Cache #4 to Keep Crossing Clear. As Baira has already moved this entry, the resulting 29 hundredths of a mile will not count. You may scoff, but that could be sufficient distance to keep a Bug from elimination...
Finally, a cacher has reported that Smart451's Smart Car 10 Knockout Racer has gone missing from Edinburgh's Crag & Tail cache. I'm currently in the process of attempting to track down this TB's whereabouts, and hopefully will have soon heard back from whoever has taken it.
After a little argy-bargy with Half Hearted being grabbed back and logged in and out and so-forth, the end result is an opening distance of 13.84 miles being recorded for the broken-hearted trackable, almost enough to jump it into the Top Ten entries in The Great Travel Bug Knockout.
There's been a second instance of disallowed milage, as cacher Baira has transferred Happy Humphrey's Scary Halloween Monster TB from her temporarily disabled In Search Of The Golden Cache #4 to Keep Crossing Clear. As Baira has already moved this entry, the resulting 29 hundredths of a mile will not count. You may scoff, but that could be sufficient distance to keep a Bug from elimination...
Finally, a cacher has reported that Smart451's Smart Car 10 Knockout Racer has gone missing from Edinburgh's Crag & Tail cache. I'm currently in the process of attempting to track down this TB's whereabouts, and hopefully will have soon heard back from whoever has taken it.
Friday, 19 November 2010
Travelling without moving
I've been rummaging around for my 9-inch square of black silk this morning as I've had to pass my first judgement regarding a rule infringement in The Great Travel Bug Knockout.
The specific rule in question is Rule 3: Only the first move by a cacher will count. This rule was broken when cacher peigimaccann retrieved Jacaru's Knockout Ferrari Travel Bug from the cache that she had placed it in and then placed it into this one, 30.07 miles away. It's quite possible that peigimaccann mistakenly logged Knockout Ferrari into the wrong cache, but I'm counting her first placing as a dip, therefore the subsequent 30.07 miles have not been added to KF's official milage. The column to the right shows the correct current order of entries in The Knockout, but for correct official milage please scroll down to the bottom of this page.
Naturally, the entrant of Knockout Ferrari may appeal this docking of milage by posting a comment to this blog post. Just don't expect me to change my mind ;-)
The specific rule in question is Rule 3: Only the first move by a cacher will count. This rule was broken when cacher peigimaccann retrieved Jacaru's Knockout Ferrari Travel Bug from the cache that she had placed it in and then placed it into this one, 30.07 miles away. It's quite possible that peigimaccann mistakenly logged Knockout Ferrari into the wrong cache, but I'm counting her first placing as a dip, therefore the subsequent 30.07 miles have not been added to KF's official milage. The column to the right shows the correct current order of entries in The Knockout, but for correct official milage please scroll down to the bottom of this page.
Naturally, the entrant of Knockout Ferrari may appeal this docking of milage by posting a comment to this blog post. Just don't expect me to change my mind ;-)
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