+Africard Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 Congratulations to the winners of the South African 2005 Travel Bug Race to Cape Town! 1st place: TUFULA 2nd place: Dan Dolphin Prizes for competitors were awarded to: 1st prize: 5 Unactivated Travel Bugs (sponsored by Africard) - TB TUFULA, owned by Whostops. 2nd prize: Peugeot gift hamper (sponsored by Peugeot Pinetown) - TB Dan Dophin, owned by janputte. Prizes for cachers assisting competitors were awarded to: Caching goodies (sponsored by geocacher.co.za) - GlobalRat (longest distance covered carrying competing TB's - 5103.1 km) Caching goodies (sponsored by geocacher.co.za) - Whostops (most trips provided to competing TB's - 9) Some of The Race Statistics: No of TB's entered in the Race: 8 No of cachers assisting participating TB's: 38 No of caches visited py participating TB's (total): 98 No of caches visited py participating TB's (unique): 62 Most visited cache (excluding start cache): Hilldrop View, KZN TB Hotel and Noon Gun - 4 visiting TB's each Average no of days a TB stayed in a cache: 21.0 days Most days spent in a cache: 84 days - Star Light in Womens Monument TB's MIA (Missing in Action / Reported lost): 3- The Globe trotter in MADIBA TRAIL Bloemfontein, Earth Watcher in N1 Sandrivier - GMC001Z, Stealth Racer in Time for Tea and Paper Kings in Table Top Trove. Least days spent in a cache: 1 - Several TB's Average days spent travelling to the next cache: 7.2 days Most days spent travelling to the next cache: 56 days - Paper Kings, before reaching Stainbank Total distance from Start cache to Final cache: 1308.6km Total distance travelled by participating TB's: 14398.0km ! Average distance travelled by participating TB's: 1799.7km Average trips provided per cacher per participating TB: 2.37 Average distance travelled per cacher with participating TB's: 378.9km Average distance travelled per cacher per participating TB carried: 118.3km Most km's travelled between two caches: Voice Of Africa, 1264.3km, assisted by GlobalRat Cacher assisting most TB's in the race: Whostops - 9 Total distance travelled per cacher, assisting more than one participating TB: 5103.1 - GlobalRat !! Dan Dolphin completed The Race on the 5th June, 2005 following 132 tavelling days! TUFULA completed The Race on the 22nd of December, 2005 following 355 travelling days! 2 TB's did not finish (DNF) The Race: Star Light and Voice Of Africa. 4 TB's went missing in action during the course of the Race: Stealth Racer, Paper Kings, The Globe Trotter and Earth Watcher. From the organiser, thank you to all the cachers participating in The Race. A total of 96 caches were visited by the participating TB's, 63 of these were unique! A total of 14 398km were covered by participating TB's, much more by the participating cachers. I personally enjoyed organising the event, meeting a lot of geocachers, learned a lot, and had fun doing so. A very prosperous 2006 to all cachers. Link to comment
+GlobalRat Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 oooo yippeee.... goodies. A nice surprise to a fine race. A BEEEEEEG thanks must go to Africard for organising and hosting the race. WELL DONE!! Link to comment
janputte Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 Add my thanks for a great, well administered race! Link to comment
+Whostops Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 (edited) Africard, many thanks for the race. I had a lot of fun, although I did chew my fingernails a few times. To all of you who helped move our TB's around, many thanks. Janputte, I will be making contact soon.Maybe we can have a few beers together in Ballito & I can hand over your prize. Edited January 3, 2006 by Whostops Link to comment
janputte Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Picked up my second prize in the 2005 Travel Bug Race to Cape Town, a Peugeot travel bag full of goodies donated by Whostops. In it, found a bottle of old engine oil marked Peugeot Port, so must be from some left hand marine engine. To Africard for organising, the "movers" and the sponsors - a great game - thank you., Link to comment
TB Hunter Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 Last bump to the top before closing the topic on the first (annual) South African TB Race. Link to comment
+GlobalRat Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Received mailshot, but still await parcel Link to comment
+GlobalRat Posted February 10, 2006 Share Posted February 10, 2006 Yippeee... goodies arrived....nice goodies too. Thanks again to Africard for a great race and the surprise prize. Link to comment
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