+Kitty Hawk Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 The league table is only a recent thing for me, but despite my meagre points I look forward imensely to getting into the top 50! Ulium would have beaten me I expect, so I would say, let Ulium to be angry and not enter! (Ooh, am I too competitive sometimes?). As Deego has kept a dignified silence I would say that the top figures in each category are highlighted as a reward for more focused endeavor. I'm happy with the current format - the only thing I would add is a weight category where your points score is increased by your %age body fat. I reckon I could beat a few superstars then! Link to comment
+Team Ullium Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 (edited) Ah Kitty Hawk be assured Ullium is not angry with anyone or anything I am just exercising my common sense...and I have nothing against anyone who disagrees with me....that is their right .... as is mine to disagree with them I'm happy with the current format - the only thing I would add is a weight category where your points score is increased by your %age body fat. I reckon I could beat a few superstars then! me too btw !!! Sorry Tigger I didn't mean to 'rant' just posted an after thought to a suggestion and got what appeared to me a strange reaction...not realising this subject had been raised previously (though I would hardly have described it as 'done to death' ). And my reasons for withdrawing my future entry to the tables has more to do with this emotional reaction I seem to have unwittingly stirred up...than to do with my objection of the inclusion of TB's ... and the proof of that is I have entered twice before and again this last month! Ullium. Edited November 5, 2004 by Ullium Link to comment
+Cave Troll and Eeyore Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 And my reasons for withdrawing my future entry to the tables has more to do with this emotional reaction I seem to have unwittingly stirred up...than to do with my objection of the inclusion of TB's ... and the proof of that is I have entered twice before and again this last month! Ullium. Ulium , we are all friends here so please continue to enter if you wish. Time we all had a big hug Link to comment
+Kitty Hawk Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 Ulium - I'm not judging you, nor your opinion, nor the way you express it nor the way other people respond - I am just looking at my place on the league table. However a league table is more valid the larger it is so it would benefit from your entry. Go on, keep entering and ignore the trigs column, (just as I will add 40% to my score for my weight disadvantage) - some cachers will be at the top, some will be at the bottom. The more who enter, the more fun it is for us competitive 'stats monkeys'. If course, if I am 51st this month.... Link to comment
+Team Ullium Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 And my reasons for withdrawing my future entry to the tables has more to do with this emotional reaction I seem to have unwittingly stirred up...than to do with my objection of the inclusion of TB's ... and the proof of that is I have entered twice before and again this last month! Ullium. Ulium , we are all friends here so please continue to enter if you wish. Time we all had a big hug I'm not opposed to that suggestion CT & Joan Ullium. Link to comment
Deego Posted November 5, 2004 Author Share Posted November 5, 2004 Ullium, I will remove your entry for this October if you wish? I am sorry you feel so strongly against the inclusion of trigpoints that you had to vocalise your concern on the forums, rather than just not entering next month. But You are fully entitled to your opinion as is everyone else. I find it very hard to please everyone even though I wish I could As I have said before, I set up the table to add a bit of fun (and Information) to those who wanted it and I felt justified adding trigpoints, as geocaching.com also record US benchmarks, so there must be some similarity in hunting a cache and finding a trigpoint. I never intented to trick people into entering and I have no plans to change the table or the scoring till January at the earliest (if at all). So I thank you for entering in the past I also want to thank everyone else who has posted support and I am going to see Joan for my big hug now Brian (Deego) Link to comment
+The Hokesters Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 Blimey - ever wish you hadn't bumped a topic? Link to comment
+Team Ullium Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 Hi Deego, I am sorry you feel so strongly against the inclusion of trigpoints that you had to vocalise your concern on the forums, rather than just not entering next month. the thing is... I didn't feel all that strongly against the inclusion of trigpoints otherwise why post my stats in the first place and also in the same post would I have suggested something to encourage newbies to enter their's?? It was unfortunate that I hadn't read the previous comments on the subject ...otherwise I wouldn't have commented at all !!! Not quite silence at any price .... but I would have suspected I was in danger of touching a raw nerve with some cachers. I only reacted to the response I received by my throw away postscript....and was surprised no one commented on my previous suggestions....even you kinda skipped around it and changed the subject Of course when pushed I defended my reasoning...not just by saying 'it's all meant to be good fun' ... but by reasoned non emotional argument! Anyone who knows me will attest that I am very much up for a bit of good fun and would be the last to attempt to detract from anyone else's idea of 'good fun'....albeit that it's not at the expense of others....and in this case I wasn't really all that perturbed. And even when I was more than willing to draw a line under the whole subject .... more and more people kept coming back at me!! Unfortunately ... yes...please withdraw my stats for this month (such as they are mark you ) ... with no hard feelings on either side I hope Ullium. Link to comment
markandlynn Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 Ours are sent in 100 this month What i should of said is 100th cache this month. Link to comment
+68 GUNS Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 Stats sent for October, our lowest score yet, but hey Winter is coming so the tree cover will diminish, think of all those easy cache finds!!! Link to comment
+harold1066 Posted November 6, 2004 Share Posted November 6, 2004 A BIG fat ZERO for me this month Link to comment
+The Hokesters Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 Stats sent for October, our lowest score yet, but hey Winter is coming so the tree cover will diminish, think of all those easy cache finds!!! Yeah and as Sunday proved you will be up to your eyes in mud and soaked through to the skin. I can recommend a flask of piping hot home made minestrone waiting for you in the cachemobile though Link to comment
+The Hokesters Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 Not wanting to light a fire under the recent conflab in this thread but we bagged our easiest (if only 2nd) trigpoint on Sunday at Grand Old Duke of York.Grand Old Duke of York. As we climbed Bardon Hill I could see the piller atop the summit Link to comment
+Haggis Hunter Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 geocaching.com also record US benchmarks, so there must be some similarity in hunting a cache and finding a trigpoint. They are not similar they are exactly the same thing. The only reason that I can see why we can't log trigpoints onto GC.com is that they don't have access to the data base likeTP:UK has. If we had, then logging trigpoints would be exactly the same for us as it is for cachers in the USA. If I ever go to the USA I would hopefully bag a benchmark and have it included in my finds for COTM, as it would then show up on my GC.com stats. The service that TP:UK has provided is one that GC.com has failed for us but gives to US cachers. Link to comment
+The Hokesters Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 ...is one that GC.com has failed for us but gives to US cachers. Just one????? Link to comment
+Molinnis Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 Just e-mailed the crews stats for October. Not a bad month with my trip to Ireland and a mass TB exchange with Klaus23 so hopefully we will make it into the top twenty. Link to comment
+Papakas Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 Anyone for Milestoning? There's quite a few dotted around the country next to our ancient highways. Must be worth at least 10 points each to COTM. What do you rekon for inclusion next year Brian? Link to comment
Deego Posted November 21, 2004 Author Share Posted November 21, 2004 The October Table is now finished here 62 this month a new record Thanks everyone (sorry its a day late) Link to comment
+Stuey Posted November 21, 2004 Share Posted November 21, 2004 I see that Seasider is back . Thanks for the stats pages Brian, are you sure there isn't someone out there that can set up a dynamic data driven set of pages rather than the hard coded ones that you so meticulously create? If only I knew how..... Link to comment
+steviep Posted November 21, 2004 Share Posted November 21, 2004 a big well done to the semi retired seasider & penny & tiger, the arrk's & rutson on there stats for oct Link to comment
markandlynn Posted November 21, 2004 Share Posted November 21, 2004 WOW i cant wait to retire from caching if it does that to our stats! Well done all. Link to comment
+Team Ullium Posted November 21, 2004 Share Posted November 21, 2004 geocaching.com also record US benchmarks, so there must be some similarity in hunting a cache and finding a trigpoint. They are not similar they are exactly the same thing. The only reason that I can see why we can't log trigpoints onto GC.com is that they don't have access to the data base likeTP:UK has. If we had, then logging trigpoints would be exactly the same for us as it is for cachers in the USA. If I ever go to the USA I would hopefully bag a benchmark and have it included in my finds for COTM, as it would then show up on my GC.com stats. The service that TP:UK has provided is one that GC.com has failed for us but gives to US cachers. Could it be that maybe UK geocaching.com dont quite agree with our US cousins on this issue Personally I see TP in the similar vein to locationless caches ... and I see that these type of caches are being re-thought at the moment Ullium. Link to comment
+Cave Troll and Eeyore Posted November 21, 2004 Share Posted November 21, 2004 Yippee 14th place for us. Only thing is we've done just 1 cache so far this month Link to comment
+mongoose39uk Posted November 21, 2004 Share Posted November 21, 2004 Very happy with 27th. Good to see quite a few new names. Cheers Tony Link to comment
+milvus-milvus Posted November 21, 2004 Share Posted November 21, 2004 Woo-hoo! 28th - Our best ever month! Link to comment
+The Hokesters Posted November 22, 2004 Share Posted November 22, 2004 (edited) locationless caches ... and I see that these type of caches are being re-thought at the moment. Tell more??? On a new thread perhaps? Edited November 22, 2004 by The Hokesters Link to comment
+Papakas Posted November 22, 2004 Share Posted November 22, 2004 Two months to go to the end of 2004 COTM. Who will come out supreme cacher of the year?! Let's set the scene as at the end of Oct: Myself 12010 and 2050 pts clear of Seasider on 9960. Is it a two horse race (will John get off the IOW alive?!)?! So who's in contention? Pengy & Tigger on 7530 are trailing top spot by 4480. It's possible providing both myself and John don't make it back from the IOW! The girls are too honest to attempt concurrent caching! The Haywood Hornet on 6620 is down 5390 but for a Geography teacher who doesn't know east from west (sorry Ian but you did log it!) what hope has he got?! aRRKs are keeping pace on 6480 but 5530 down keeping pace will not be good enough! They're pretty sharp with the FTFs but it can be somewhat frustrating to spend hours trying to ensure an FTF to find a pair of sneaky sods have engineered a stealth FTF by delaying making the log entry on the cache listing! Oh, its so frustrating!! As the cliche goes, they'll need to raise there game! Volvo Man's continual slide southwards has brought Subarite up (OK, your 740 Oct pts did help!) but what about Purple Penguin?! Just out of the top 10 at end of Sep leaps up 3 places. Is this a cacher on a mission?! Pharisee is 7890 pts behind top down in 9th, so is this the highest he will get this year?! Holding up the top 10 is Jessex who appears to have taken a liking to being in 10th! Try not to get too excited and, as they say on Crimewatch UK, please don't have nightmares! Come to think of it, we'll soon know who's on a mission when the night finds start coming in! Link to comment
Deego Posted November 22, 2004 Author Share Posted November 22, 2004 I am also planing to do Cacher of the year table using AVERAGE scores And maybe more who can tell Link to comment
+Seasider Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 I am also planing to do Cacher of the year table using AVERAGE scores Well I won't win this month as I haven't done any (apart from a few at the meet on Sunday)............... I'll make up for it in December though! Cheers! Seasider Link to comment
+Pengy&Tigger Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 I am also planing to do Cacher of the year table using AVERAGE scores And maybe more who can tell I hope trigs will be included *runs for cover* T Link to comment
+Team Maddie UK Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 I am quite happy being in the middle last month but will be bringing up the bottom for November after a month of ill health. Am reseving last spot!!!! As far as the year goes in the middle suits me fine. Ullium...if you climb a hill/mountain to log a cache and a trig you deserve to get both! Hills are killers for me and if I can get 2 for the price of 1 it adds extra momentum Lynn Link to comment
Deego Posted November 24, 2004 Author Share Posted November 24, 2004 (edited) Hope your better soon Lynn And Tigger yes the Trigs will be included . I knew you would be trouble Edited November 24, 2004 by Deego Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted November 24, 2004 Share Posted November 24, 2004 Just a quickie Brian; when I send my November figures in should I include tracked USA geocoins under TBs as I've found a couple this month, for the first time. Or do I leave GCs off my CotM stats? SP Link to comment
+Papakas Posted November 24, 2004 Share Posted November 24, 2004 Hope the answer is yes as I've claimed them in the past the same just as I have jeeps. They are all listed under the travel bug system. And, they have a TB waypoint and they are added to your inventory. Note, I didn't claim the two Canadian coins I picked up in Scotland! Link to comment
Deego Posted November 24, 2004 Author Share Posted November 24, 2004 Yes. Its fine to count them. Not even going split hairs about the Canadian coins (as my dad lives there ) so feel free to count them Link to comment
+Pengy&Tigger Posted November 24, 2004 Share Posted November 24, 2004 What's the policy on US benchmarks? *ducks* T Link to comment
Deego Posted November 24, 2004 Author Share Posted November 24, 2004 I really dont know anybody??? it is only for fun ! You are trouble Link to comment
+Team Ullium Posted November 24, 2004 Share Posted November 24, 2004 Ullium...if you climb a hill/mountain to log a cache and a trig you deserve to get both! Hills are killers for me and if I can get 2 for the price of 1 it adds extra momentum Lynn Hi Lynn I think you must have missed the bit where I said I fully intend to bag trigs sometime in the future....when both Angela and I have improved our general fitness enough to confidently take on this sport Everyone seems to have the idea that I have something against Trig Pointing ??? Let me assure you that this is not the case....my only slight crib was that I thought it strange to have this pastime mixed in with Geocaching....especially since it has it's own logging outlet, it's own website and it's own forum?? Ullium. Link to comment
+Kitty Hawk Posted November 24, 2004 Share Posted November 24, 2004 I am also planing to do Cacher of the year table using AVERAGE scores Does that mean Pyoung1s and Seasider will not be counted? Their scores are never average. Link to comment
+Cave Troll and Eeyore Posted November 29, 2004 Share Posted November 29, 2004 No chance of caching before end of November now so our 1 find & 1 TB released will have to do Link to comment
markandlynn Posted November 29, 2004 Share Posted November 29, 2004 If we are having a cacher of the year what about us people who have not entered all year but have old stats?. Oh keep the trigpoints in, we will do some eventually! And 10,000,000 points for UK geo coin release please seems the only way to get to the top for us now. Link to comment
+The Hokesters Posted November 30, 2004 Share Posted November 30, 2004 Sent novembers figures in - might make mid table this month Link to comment
+Alibags Posted November 30, 2004 Share Posted November 30, 2004 (edited) Sent novembers figures in - might make mid table this month Why? there is still a day and a half of prime caching opportunities before the end of the month! Edited November 30, 2004 by Alibags Link to comment
+The Hokesters Posted November 30, 2004 Share Posted November 30, 2004 Yeah like I have any chance of getting out there again this month Link to comment
Deego Posted November 30, 2004 Author Share Posted November 30, 2004 I have had 4 already yesterday Mid table way to go Simon Link to comment
+badger Posted November 30, 2004 Share Posted November 30, 2004 Quick question from a newbie... How do you get added to the tables? Link to comment
+The Hokesters Posted November 30, 2004 Share Posted November 30, 2004 Here you go - November Entry Page Link to comment
+badger Posted November 30, 2004 Share Posted November 30, 2004 (edited) Thanks Hokesters Edit: Not sure my 6 finds and one released bug will get me very far... Edited November 30, 2004 by mattwaggie Link to comment
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