detrickm

What would you mean by 'offical'? I'm not in any way involved with organizing this thing, but I'm not sure what it is you want to see done differntly . one of the requirements for the race is that each racer have a Groundspeak traveler tag . In the past two races the begining, ending, (and this year check point) were all gc.com listed caches, the starting point has been an event cache. Why this year has only like 20 entries (so far ), and the past ones have had 70+, I don't know. I think the organization side of things has appeared to go quite well. I was interested in seeing if, perhaps, Groundspeak might 'sanction' this race. Get it some publicity/advertising on the main geocaching page. Something similar to the Jeep stuff. I'm sure that Jeep threw money at them, that we wouldn't have.. but still, it might be worth a shot. Perhaps more interesting races like this could pop up!

I'll start by saying I'm too lazy today to read back through this entire topic. I'll also say, I have read it all previously, and don't think that my question has been addressed yet. Has anyone looked into getting the "Unofficial Cannonball Race 200x" sanctioned by Groundspeak, so that it could be made into an "Official" event? Perhaps that would help to get it made more public, and get the number of entrants back up. Not that I'm not excited about running against so few competitors... still, there's something more fun in competing with the masses. Honestly, I don't read the forums, except for this one topic (which I find a link directly to through google, so I don't bother seeing other topics), so I feel like I'm part of the many people who geocache, but would have NO idea there is a race if it weren't for stumbling across it by dumb luck.

Sent a TB in for the race a few days ago... 'Captiv8ed Racer'. It should arrive via snail mail (USPS 2 or 3 day priority) by tomorrow. Paypal was sent last weekend. I hadn't seen any updates showing my car on the official unofficial CBR2005 pre-site site.

Here's a question that I believe I know the answer to, but I'm going to ask anyway just to be sure. The rules state that we should start with a NEW TB. We should then attach a wheel to it, and mail it with money. Should this NEW TB be activated before it is mailed? I suspect that it should be, so it can be, "grabbed by CBR2005," instead of being 'activated by CBR2005." However, I just wanted to make sure this was clear before activating a new TB.