Come Out & Play Contest 2013 / 2014
What is the Come Out & Play Contest?
The 2013-2014 Come Out & Play Contest is a fun competition to get you out of the house during the chilly days of winter. Designed for all New Brunswick cachers the objective is to complete at least 20 of the 44 game tasks for finding or hiding caches during the next 4 months. You may go for high score or low score; your choice. You may complete more than 20 tasks if you wish. The 20 best scores (highest or lowest) of your completed tasks will be used to calculate your final score.
A complete downloadable version of these rules and tasks can be found at this post for both English and French.
The contest is not limited to caches located in New Brunswick; caches found anywhere in the world are eligible as long as they are found and logged by you and fulfill the requirements of the task being claimed. However, the Come Out & Play contest is limited to cachers who reside in New Brunswick (students going to school here during the contest are eligible to play), cachers from our neighboring border cities/towns in Maine and neighboring border cities in Quebec who are part of our geocaching communities.
Prizes will be awarded to at least the highest score, the lowest score, the score closest to the average and the closest score to zero (all having completed at least 20 tasks); depending on the prize donations we receive. Cachers who play but do not complete at least 20 tasks will receive a ballot for each task completed for a draw for a prize. The winners will be announced and prizes awarded at our Bye Bye Winter Bash in Fredericton on April 26th, 2014 at the New Maryland Center.
Please double check to make sure the email you sign up with is correct; last year we had a few typos in emails and had trouble contacting the players.
Please make sure that you use the complete and correct GC codes when submitting claims. When you type in a GC code on the submission form on CUNB it links directly to the actual cache page so we can easily verify your claim. If the code is incomplete (usually folks leave off the “GC” preceding the number) or incorrect the link may not work and we have to manually try to figure out the correct code or have to contact the player for verification. This becomes time consuming and extremely frustrating when you’re dealing with hundreds of claim submissions. So, please, be careful when submitting your claims. Thanks!
1. Game runs from December 1st, 2013 through March 31st, 2014.
2. Register on the Registration tab on Cache Up NB (www.cacheupnb.com) to let us know you’re playing. There is no deadline to register but keep in mind the 14 day claim time period.
3. Fulfill at least 20 of the 44 tasks listed below after the start of the game. Go for high score or low score; your choice. You may complete more than 20 tasks if you wish. The 20 best scores (highest or lowest) of your completed tasks will be used to calculate your final score.
4. It is understood that “find a cache” means “find a cache previously unfound by you and log online” and “hide a cache” means “hide and have published on GC.com”. If the task is to be completed in a single day it will say so, otherwise it means over the period of the contest.
5. Caches you claim for the game must be logged on www.geocaching.com after the start of the game. Each task must be claimed against a cache previously unfound by you and only one task may be claimed per cache found or per cache hidden.
6. Tasks must be claimed in the Claims page at Cache Up NB within 14 days of fulfillment and before the end of the game. It is your responsibility to include all GC codes required to verify the task completion.
7. Caches hidden for tasks must be published during the contest period (from Dec 1st, 2013 to March
31st, 2014) so keep reviewer time in mind. Find claims may be made on caches hidden during the contest period but not if you were with the hider when it was hidden.
8. Hide tasks have no time limits or constraints to be published, except that they must be published before the end of the contest. To prevent chaos, please do not submit your hides all at once or all at the end of the contest. Spread them out over the contest period. Do not submit your claim until your caches are published. Keep in mind that it is your responsibility to submit on time (and with time to spare to deal with problems) and to know and follow the guidelines. If there is an issue, generally it is
with you, not the reviewer.
9. Points are awarded on the basis of either: Task Score + (Difficulty * Terrain) or a fixed points score. Each task clearly states the scoring method. All scores may be either positive or negative amounts. Simply choose “plus” or “minus” after you’ve calculated it. When submitting a claim you will be asked for your expected score for that task. This will let us know if you want the higher or lower score for tasks with fixed points and will act as a double check for us scoring.
10. It is assumed that everyone will play fairly and with honesty. If you’re hiding a 5/5 cache it is assumed that you would call it a 5/5 if the contest was not being played. If you claim a find of any kind it is assumed that you have fulfilled all requirements of that cache and signed the logsheet. We cannot, nor do we wish to, police you. We trust that all will play with integrity and honour.
11. In the event of a tie score, the earliest score will be used as the tiebreaker.
12. We, milosheart, will administrate the game and our decisions are final. We reserve the right to provide clarifications to the rules at any point during the game.
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Notes
This is not a race. Some requirements have a higher (or lower) score than others. Read the rules and tasks carefully and choose wisely. You are seeking points, not claiming the tasks first although there is danger in waiting too long. Even if you can’t get the high score, cunning strategy may result in a prize.
If you have any doubts about whether a cache is suitable/claimable please feel free to contact us before claiming it. We will try to find a way to say yes, so lateral thinking is encouraged. Once we receive the claim and approve/reject it, a confirmation e-mail will be generated and sent to you.
Happy Caching, Play Safely and Good Luck to All!
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Below you will find a list of the currently registered players for this contest.
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If you experience technical issues with the registration or claims tabs, please use the form below to contact us for help. DO NOT USE THIS FORM TO SUBMIT CLAIMS AS THEY WILL BE IGNORED!
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