“Crow” is pleased to announce that for the third time HRCR will be supporting the Internet Table-Top Rally (ITTR) Championship – the 14th since its inception in 1998. A virtual “World Championship” series since it attracts entries from the USA, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Italy and Australia.

For newcomers this entails solving route cards and marking the route on a digital OS map. Solutions are compared with a master route, and penalties are applied for missing Passage Controls or being too early or late on a section - determined from the submitted route being too short or too long. There are plenty of practice route cards on this website and registration is free.

Predominantly plotting, the Championship navigation will be varied and based upon the styles in the HRCR Navigation Handbook, though a few will be more complex in terms of maps, solution or plotting. Hints will be available in some cases, albeit with a time penalty. There might be a driving test and a couple of real-time legs, just to mix things up a bit.

The Championship comprises 4 rounds, each with 8 legs (the best 7 to count by using a “joker”) and 21 days to solve and plot. Several well-known navigators will be joining “Crow” in designing the route cards.

The Best 3 scores over the 4 rounds will be used for Championship positions.

There will be 4 classes: Masters, Experts, Novices and Beginners. A competitor’s class will be automatically assigned based upon previous table-top performances. New Internet table-top competitors will be classed as Beginners.

There is NO "Entry Fee". There are sufficient funds in the ITTR non-profits bank account to cover the map routing and hosting fees. BUT entrants need to self-certify a payment of £20 or more (money or goods for re-sale) to a charity of their choice. (The individual amount donated will not be public.) This will add to the ~£42,000 that ITTR has raised in total for charities.

In addition, all competitors will have free use of the digital mapping tool OFCAWS, for the duration of the Championship. Iain Tullie, the HRCR Competitions Secretary, is a big fan: “If you need to use OS Maps online, subscribe to OFCAWS rather than any other providers. Some very useful route plotting features and your fee goes to a good cause. If you haven't tried the Internet Table Tops, you should have a go and you will find out for yourself how good (and how much fun) it is.". OFCAWS Details here.

The HRCR have generously sponsored the awards for the Championship so there will be prizes for the best 10% of competitors.

If you want to put in a dummy entry, simply as a means of charitable giving or trying out OFCAWS, you are welcome to do so.

The events will run as follows:
November 1, 2026 - November 21, 2026 - The Nearest FarAway Place Rally
December 1, 2026 - December 21, 2026 - Panglossian Rally
January 11, 2027 - January 31, 2027 - Schoolfrenz Rally
February 8, 2027 - February 28, 2027 - Thalamorph Rally

There's a gap over Christmas/New Year so you can emerge from your man cave or woman cave to concentrate instead on family matters.

May the Plot be with you.

"Crow"
September 1, 2026