Come Out & Play Contest Update

The Come Out & Play contest has been going on for just over 3 months now, with a little over 5 weeks to go. We thought we’d let everyone know how it’s going.

We promised to let the players know the results of the informal poll we did back in December asking how they all felt about posting their scores publically.  I thought the results were interesting! LOLWe had a total of 31 responses. We had 27 “no” votes, one “yes” vote who changed his/her mind to “no” later, one who said they didn’t care, one who suggested scores but no names and one who suggested partial scores. The last was a great idea but a bit too much work. So the “no” votes have it, we won’t be posting the scores until the Bye Bye Winter Bash in April.

The contest itself is going very well. Terry and I are having a great time reading all of the logs and reading about all these caches, some we’ve not heard of before. Here are some facts you may enjoy:

• We have 48 official participants in the contest
• We have, to date, 5 players who missed the deadline so are not eligible for prizes but who wanted to play anyway so we’re tracking their scores, too
• We have 3 players who have completed all 20 of their required tasks
• We have 20 players who have yet to submit a claim
•  Task #4 Seriesly(?) has the most claims, with 21
• Task#30 Take a Hike is the only task yet to be claimed
• The highest point value on a single claim, to date, is 30 points (by 3 different players)
• The total number of claims approved, to date, is 322

Daryl, of Coopsquared, is having a trackable geocoin made up for the 2011 contest which will be available for purchase. It is similar to the one he had done last year and the pictures and ordering info can be found on our Facebook group page (Fredericton Region Geocachers)  http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/group.php?gid=192176623576. Or if you’d like to contact Daryl directly please do so at sialonak@gmail.com

 
And last but not least, the date has been set for our 2nd Annual Bye Bye Winter weekend. It will be held here in Fredericton April 29th – May 1st. So far we have the following planned:

• Friday, April 29th  BBW Bowling Party, with Bowling Bingo and Funky Bowling (7:00 – 9:00 pm at Kingswood) $9.00 per person
• Saturday, April 30th Some sort of breakfast, not sure what or where yet, details to be announced
• Saturday, April 30th Treehugger21’s BBW CITO event to clean up our adopted section of highway (we have our sign, finally!) –  time to be announced
• Saturday, April 30th BBW Bash potluck supper at O’Dell Lodge where the Come Out & Play contest winners will be announced (4:30 or 5:00 – 8:00 pm)
• Sunday, May 1st Hello Spring Breakfast by Scouter Rick and Crew at the Ramada – time to be announced
   

More info to follow, once the events are published and all the details are worked out. The Ramada has given us a reduced room rate in the past and, hopefully will again for our out of town guests. There are lots of other great hotels in town, too. 

Last year we had over 80 people in town for the BBW Weekend events and everyone seemed to have a great time. At the Bash on the Saturday we will, hopefully, again be having FTF Geocaching Outlet from Truro NS onsite to sell their wares and show new product. We’ll be having a 50/50 draw and a wonderful potluck supper. The whole weekend is lots of fun! We hope you can attend!
Happy Winter Caching!
 
Gwen & Terry