Conference terri::cars_uk

Ricky

Off hand I don't, but please can you let me know what you come up with. Our
motor club wants to run a similar thing that is more of an adventure than a
speed event, so again any suggestions would be really welcome.

Mike

    Instead of a timed rallye, you may try one with easy directions, but 
    they have to pick up clues along the way.  Such as "What is the name 
    of the farm with the blue doors?" or "What house number follows the 
    caution sign?" appropriately in the directions.  By that I mean that 
    the question would be between certain road clues which would give 
    signals if they had missed something if they reached the next turn.  
    
    You could score points based on traveling the correct mileage 
    (no wrong turns) and points for correct answers.  Weigh the 
    two depending upon the crowd.  A suggestion: if these people have 
    not done TSD events, make the clues easy and obvious.
    
    We had one last fall where you had to go into a package store 
    (there were two side by side, get the right clue!) ask for Charlie 
    and tell him "The cold wind blows from the North".  Charlie would 
    then give you two cold beers and say "A gift from the Gods."  At 
    the end you would be at a phone booth and call a number (which was 
    across the street).  When the receiver was lifted, you were to hold 
    up your gifts and say "Praise to the Gods of the North!"  Points were 
    awarded heavily for being at the right phone booth and following the 
    procedure.  Needless to say, the last ones in got quite a laugh from 
    those of us in the bar across the street....
    
    
    Jeff
    

    You can take the concept of .2 and make it appealing to whole family
    teams too.
    
    I've taken part in the 'follow the directions and answer the questions'
    type of rally on several occasions - generally known as treasure hunts. 
    The best ones included questions which were for the children to answer. 
    On the occasion that I helped compile the route our 3 kids came up with
    some questions which were so youth-topical that you _needed_ children
    to answer them.

    Be careful with treasure hunts. All too often I have come across a
    queue of cars travelling at 3mph looking at every blade of grass trying
    to figure out what the clue means. You have to be very specific and use
    clues like -2 suggests. Our club runs "scatter rallies" which use grid
    references and clues at the grid reference to solve. You have to visit
    75% of the plots. You choose the direction, (you don't in a treasure
    hunt) hence the word scatter. This isn't what we are looking for
    though.
    
    Mike

    All suggestions seem to be good.  We usually have a rally like .2. The
    problem is the same person always wins.  Out of 10 rallies, he probably 
    has won 8 of them.  That is why I was looking for something that was
    more 'luck of the draw'.  
    
    Any more suggestions?
    
    Thanks,
    Ricky
    

Make the 8 out of 10 winner organise the next one?

Andrew

Andrew

As Alan will tell you, it doesn't work, they just get real sadistic!

Mike

A slight twist on the gimmick rally is to have one sheet with all the directions
(in the proper order) and one sheet with all the questions (also in the proper
order.)  However, there is no indication how the questions relate to the route
instructions.  You end up looking for the next clue and the next route
instruction at the same time, either one may pop up.

This makes it easy to stay on course.

A thought on the same team always winning - get all the participants together at
the start and determine the teams by lottery!  Match up the drivers and
navigators at random!

Dave