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Internet Table-Top Rally Championship 2003 |
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General Having perused the results, cannot fault you !
- perhaps if I could count and had worked in a bit better light, I wouldn't have
dropped the points I did ! ! !. Hi, and thanks for that . At least I now know what it's all
about - not sure whether I'm looking forward to the next one or not ;-) Don't think 18th was too bad with only four days and the
wrong map. Great event, but I'm sure it was more difficult than I remember!!!
Roll-on the Cloverleaf!!!! Thanks for organising such a challenging !?*?! event. I'm afraid
a bit too challenging at times! I just didn't get on the right wavelength for
some of the RCs. I would like to say that I really enjoyed this event. Some
of the cards were quite easy to solve and it took me the only a few days to do
them in my lunch-hour at work, having done these, they got very much harder and
I was very pleased when I finally figured out the solution having spend many
lunchtimes and evenings doing my head in. I did find Cards 8 and 9
impossible and was very interested to see how it was done. I'd just like to add my thanks to you for putting this event on.
Despite the fact that I didn't manage to get round to actually submitting any
answers, I did do about half the routes, I just didn't get round to answering
the questions. I did enjoy the event however, which was (for me at least) much
better than the last postal TT I did back in February last year, when I gave up
in disgust at the idea of trying to work out anagrams of map references. Yours
seemed to require intelligence and lateral thinking to solve, not just vast
amounts of time for trial and error. I would really have liked to have done the
whole event, though I also remain in awe of those achieving scores over 90. The
only problem is a lack of time. If they're still running when I retire I'll
probably enjoy them a bit more (though it's a while to wait until 2030!) I look
forward to the rest of the championship, when I hope to redeem myself. First, thanks for arranging such a mind-bending and
well-organised event. Like a good crossword, the solutions are obvious when you
know them, but impossible when you don't. I knew that I would kick myself when
the answers were announced, and I've got the bruises to prove it. The best
feature as far as I was concerned was the way that individual route cards could
be submitted, and the scores viewed in realtime. Obviously, it's not good news
when you get a poor score, but it's very motivating to get a ten. I didn't have
any particular likes and dislikes on the RCs, and I'm looking forward to the
next time. Mank(?) thanks for another enjoyable event,
not sure how you do it but keep them coming. You asked for comments, here they
are. Just a thank you for putting on the event
which I am sure was excellent apart from the fact that I never got my brain into
gear. I do hope that the solutions will be published before the next event gets
underway, so that I can have a chance of finding my way round a little better.
OTL at the start, and even more OTL at the finish!! 8-) Sorry I was unable to devote the time I needed
to this TT. As you can see I managed 8 of them, but the muse didn't have time to
settle and allow me to read your devious mind on the others! The late start
didn't help, but I don't know if it would have made any difference anyway!!!!
Looking forward to part II, for two weeks of which I'll be on holiday in Rhodes,
but I'll take it with me and if I can find time between the Amstels and the
Moussakas and the swimming pool, I'll have a look at it there!! Thanks for your
efforts. It was a good rally, I don't know how you
managed to win the Cultivator, with all its closed gates, and then switch to
setting this (or vice-versa). I particularly liked section 11 a mad romp up the
highways. Don't know if I should thank you
but - Thanks for a mind numbing month, at least I've got a month to recover. I have enjoyed the couple of hours that I have
managed to spend on this event. Unfortunately work commitments have been extreem
this month. I hope to have more time available for the next one. Thanks for
putting the event on. I look forward to seeing the answers & thinking 'why
diddn't I think of that!' Guess again & again. I have totally failed to work out what
the hell I am supposed to do with any more of the cards. Following are my
remaining seven cards - it will take even less brain cells than I
appear to have to work out how they were "derived" - however if they
pick up 3 points between them its 3 more than I would have had! (Pride,
whats pride????) I'm not sure I know what I'm doing -- curious
to see how this turns out and whether I even have the right idea as to how this
competition works. Hi forgot about this till your
reminder - pressure of work! Am struggling a bit - think I may be out of
practice! This is probably the only one I'll be able to
do! I assume it'll take a while to understand how your mind works! It certainly
passes the time on the train into work! That is all for now. Managed not to press any
more funny buttons on the mouse, and will now go off to have a quiet nervous
breakdown. Excellent rally. Don't know how people get 99 percent. I would go
nuts checking and rechecking bridges! Fought my way to the end at last. Thanks for a
great rally, It has nursed the injury that the Massacre did to me. As with the previous partial answers. 50/50
guesses. I have enjoyed the couple of hours that I have managed to spend on this
event. Unfortunately work commitments have been extreme this month. I hope to
have more time available for the next one. Thanks for putting the event on. I
look forward to seeing the answers & thinking 'why diddn't I think of that!' Many thanks for some interesting challenges. Just not on your wavelength yet I think! Very
enjoyable, many thanks, looking forward to the next one. Many thanks for putting on the event, I know
it must take a lot of time, so it is appreciated. I am
impressed by some of the scores that have been posted.
I now know what I need to aspire too. I've really enjoyed this TT, very well set out and very accurate
too. Looking forward to seeing where I've gone wrong. Not looking forward to
herringbones though, I hate them! Route Card 1 A comparatively easy one to start. Having looked at
the others, can I do this one another nine times? Made a total horlicks of Route Card 1 and on
checking have found where I went wrong. Such is rallying. Route Card 2 A bastard to plot! Great accuracy needed. Difficult to measure, but blew map up [not literally
I hope] and thought shortest distance was round the left of the circle. Hopefully not too tricky... By it would have helped
if I'd remembered my romer on the plane! Route Card 3 Note: I have followed your convention of spreading
the 'w' at GS 1550 across the F line as wFF not wFwF, and used this to access
white loop near TP in GS 1348 wFEwFNw (not wFEwwFNw) Route Card 4 Quite easy to get muxed ip! Route Card 5 This might be my best Route Card yet! But then
again... This was the easiest clue to solve.... Just one comment - surely route card 5 should've been entitled
"egdirB ehT paG", as you reversed each clue individually, rather than
the whole route ??? I had been trying to make sense of 1.38 1.68 0.24 etc.
Not that it would have made the slightest bit of difference - the two marks I
did get for that one were solely as a result of a total guess - just any old
route including 11 bridges! Route Card 6 This was a bit of an eyesight test. Number of ETLs
kept changing each time I counted! I liked this clue, although my printout had it
spanning 2 pages and wrapping which made it less obvious!! Route Card 7 24 clues, 30 possible GS and I still haven't a clue!
Seeing the scores its obviously a good 'kickself' question. I don't think I have got anywhere near solving this
section. Your first "nul points"? Phew! I spend ages going round and round this one,
and I'm sure I tried the 2 bits of the final solution many times, but couldn't
get them to work..... Route Card 8 Well, my score on this one could be anything between 0 and 10.
After many hours I've found a way of cracking the code to give a route but
it maybe not the route that was intended ! A complete guess! Route Card 9 Nice idea for route 9 - finally sused it out on the bus into work
this morning. Please ignore my answers to RC 9 sent in a couple of
minutes ago. It seems that when I press one of the side buttons on my mouse it
sends the form with any blank questions filled in from the previous form. So you
have a load of rubbish on the previous form as I got out of sysc somewhere and
didn't answer all the questions as I was trying to correct the out of sync
problem. The answers on this form are OK. I think this is a case of plot a route that looks
good and just drive it - Impossible!!!!!!! Can't wait to see the answer for this
one!!!! Route Card 10 Simple but tedious and ranked 13th on entertainment
value - even the one's I don't understand are more fun, as is reading the Legend
section. Arghhhh! Must have taken me half the flight across
the Atlantic!! Of course a black and white printout didn't help... Route Card 11 Whew! I'm exhausted after driving all that way! Seriously,
though, it was very difficult to count and check over such a long distance,
especially as a crucial part of the route (blue/green changes) was right on the
centrefold. And you know how I feel about routes that cross the centrefold
anyway!!! The title had me worrying that I had made a mistake
somewhere until I folded the map cover side out to finish. Very imaginative! Potentially a complete dog's breakfast! Not sure about the route
or the counting ... my eyesight is definitely getting worse! Love the clue! Bizzare route.... Whew! I'm exhausted after driving all that way! Seriously,
though, it was very difficult to count and check over such a long distance,
especially as a crucial part of the route (blue/green changes) was right on the
centrefold. And you know how I feel about routes that cross the centrefold
anyway!!! Route Card 12 I thought the 15.9 was a bit cheeky! Did you actually have some
means of measuring it, or was it just a bold guess? Just a couple of comments -
At RC6, my answer includes passing under the M6 in GS 4349, where I have
convinced myself that I can see a bridge sign, but my eyes being dim with age
could be misleading me! Also, RC5 would be 48, as the spot was on the road on an
older version of the map (before the cyclepath was added) However, the green
spot now covers it, and since spot heights only count where the spot is actually
on the carriageway, (and it now isn't) I have ignored it and gone for the next
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