Geo-challenge Welterweight

[+CheekyBrit]

I can't be the only one with this geo - shower thought. Those hooked on challenges often build their stats diversely to be able to surpass as many challenges as they can. But what about trying to do so without the heavyweight find count? Are there people out there trying to be in a Geo-welterweight class with rather few finds, but still able to pack a punch on tackling challenges? A Challenge contender, if you will.

I've tried to do that but I recon I'm only middleweight. 
Follow-up shower thought: If we had a professional, sponsored geocacher who's goal was to surpass something mad, like 90% of the 46917 challenges out there but with the absolute lowest possible find count, how would you advise them as their strategic counsel? Some challenges like GC4HEZK (find 27k caches) would probably need to be skipped.
(So they don't need to have 'found' all the challenges, just want to have beat the requirements for as many as possible.)

For example, I played around with this idea for GC3D5EB the Iron Bingo Challenge in Ontario and someone could complete a blackout with only 100 caches, 1 a day for 100 days.

Another daft topic from me, I know.
-CheekyBrit

Edited June 12 by CheekyBrit

[+CheekyBrit]

I realize this could be better quantified as the quest to find/create the player with the highest challenges qualified / find count score.
If it were a graph, it'd look a bit like this (the names are random, sorry if they're real players). Someone would want to follow the green arrow, trying to have the lowest find count whilst still qualifying for max challenges, like EarthWind&Finds or BlinkJuan82. BoatyMcBoatFace qualifies for more finds than them but has waaay more finds and is a few weight classes above them. BlinkJuan82 may not qualify for much, but as a flyweight, that chap is packing a punch.

All of this goes against the general geocaching norm of the red arrow, get lots of finds, everything, everywhere, all at once if you can.

Side note - the orange line is just a trend line. The purple line denotes equal finds to challenges qualified for. I recon if you can get north of that line you're a serious challenge contender.

Edited June 12 by CheekyBrit

[+GeoElmo6000]

This is what your chart looks like to me

[+thebruce0]

I think in line with the theme - I completed my first Fizzy grid within my first year. The door opened for amazing experiences on those high D/T ends, before I was 'spoiled' by the existence of arguably inaccurately rated DTs for the sake of fizzies.  And being so new to the hobby those experiences were even better as they were so new.  And it wasn't just a fizzy, it was Canada's 'California fizzy', Tequila's 81 Proof challenge (a fizzy grid with a no-later-than publish date of April 8, 2008). I finally logged the challenge on Aug 21 2010)

So I was doing pretty extreme challenges back in year 1.

 

Arguably though, challenge quantity may be a skewed stat since there are some regions with powertrails and geoarts of simple challenges, and 101-style intro challenges.  If quantity is not an indicator of accomplishments, then it could still be interesting; but maybe there could be a venn diagram overlaid with the location on that grid of certain regions of note for comparison. It could fit on that whirlwind of a graph, eh? lol