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Struggled with most of the clues, think I'll stick to stage
navigating and road rally driving. Best of luck with the series, know anyone who
wants to buy two unused Southern maps?? :-) Ourageously[sic] difficult and not the fun I was hoping
for. The first half of each route card is nice & straightforward
- so much so the wife was able to plot them too & she doesn't do road rallies
with hard navigation, just 12 cars, pre-plot & pace notes on stage rallies!! Superb challenge, thoroughly enjoyed it. Nothing
like the rallying I did over 20 years ago. Glad it wasn't the old plot n' bash,
I'd have never got my driver off the start line! I will, however continue to
enter until I hopefully clean it, as long as I have the time! Sorry, you have me beaten now. The last bit of the route of the one above
is a guess to be honest! I thought I was a reasonable navigator as we don't
very often get lost but this sure seems a bit beyond me. Hope the answers
will be given out in full so I can see how the routes I just can't get to
grips with work. Hopefully then I'll do a bit netter next time! Great Rally very thought provoking - hope your
ears didn't burn too much. See you in November. Thanks for all your efforts. Seems pretty much the right standard, don't get any ideas about making it
more tricky! Quite like the 'simple' first half to get you started, although
I didn't think many of them were all *that* simple - certainly harder than
most navigational rallies I've ever been on. The route-check questions
seemed a bit easier to answer than last time as well, fewer 'dubious
churches' and that sort of thing. Or maybe I've just got better at spotting
them. I thinkI have also got better at remembering about no-through-roads
than I was on the last event, not easy sometimes to swap from the 'driving'
mindset where all roads count. Looking forward to a rest now before the next
one. I think the difficulty level was just right for me (though I may
change my mind when I see my result!), but obviously too easy for the gentleman
who got 100 percent. I enjoyed doing the Table Top and am now going to de-stress
before the next round. Does anyone know where I can get an eraser keyring to
attach to the chain around my neck with the roamer, magnifying glass and pencil? Have enjoyed very much so far and will try
harder in the next rounds. Many thanks. I am a deeply frustrated man. It doesn't help that
I am using an old (1993) map, but this was the only route card that I was
able to plot! I need a LOT of practice and some help! Thoroughly enjoyable - but unless I get a sudden flash of
inspiration in the last 24 hours I'll be two Route Cards short. First time out on the internet table top championship,
found it very good event and level of challenge about right. I am still
unable to get the second parts of section 6 and 12 to work, so there is definitely
a challenge to the old brain. Well done. Ouch! Thanks for all the hard work in setting what was an
enjoyable event, and congrats on raising so much money. I think it was
slightly harder than the events I did last year, but perhaps Ive just
forgotten. Looking forward to the next one. Another challenging rally!!!!! Thanks. Not keen on the format of having each section in two parts
- probably because I couldn't make the first part work on a number of
sections. Didn't have much time to devote to it, but I don't think anymore
time would have helped, the last evening and a bit providing nothing new.
Obviously not tuned into for this one. Must say that I can't get my head
round LWRNAM - what is the point of plotting a route against things that
don't exist? Many thanks for all your efforts inputting such athought
provoking event as usual I shall be interested in where the route should
have gone although I feel I have got some of it right. thanks again. To summarise the whole event: I was unable to spend as
much time as I would have liked, so in the end I was rushing and just ran
out of time. You have put a lot of hard work into this, Ray, and I have
'enjoyed' it. A bit 'iffy' with the 50m rule on telephones, but plenty of head
scratching. As usual I do not possess the imagination (left brain) to decode the
obscure sections, but it is very thrilling to 'crack' one and find that it is
easy (ish). Congrats to the winner, and rather sad about those who did not find
at least one plot and bash section to draw them in. Cheers. Crow: Thanks a lot for your hard work once again. I can't
imagine how difficult it must be to keep coming up with fresh ideas for
these competitions. I know I always enjoy trying to find the answers to the
riddles you come up with - and there is an immense sense of satisfaction
when the penny finally drops after hours of puzzling. This time you had me
beat with the references to LWRAM and - even worse - LWRNAM. How you can
plot a route round a triangle which exists only in your (fertile)
imagination, I really don't know!!!! I didnt have the foggiest idea about
either part of Route Card 8. First, I couldn't line the dots up with
anything - the smaller size of the square didn't help - and with no
reference point for TC8A, I had no idea where to start for part 2, so all
the Y's and N's made no sense.. One point which doesn't seem to have been
mentioned by anybody else is in part 2 of Route Card 4, where the 7th YYY at
the beginning should be YYYY on edition D of the Map, as you! acknowledge
that the Yellow towards the Green road actually joins it by changing GGY
(for C1 users) to GYGY (for D users). Times out - I'm gone. Some of the sections completely defeated me. I hope you will publish an
explanation of how they work. Otherwise I enjoyed it. |
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