Thursday, 6 March 2014

Feb Bonus Points and Extra Points


I have had a few queries relating to the bonus points that were awarded as well as the new categories. So I will try to explain.
Additional Categories:
  1. Dropped in cache
    • After the start of the race I realised that I did not have any points allocated to the TB being dropped in a cache except for the difficult/terrain rating of 2.5. So with a quick discussion I decided to add this category and award 10 points for any drops in a cache that has a cache difficult/terrain rating under 2.5
  2. Earth Cache Visit
    • A Earth Cache is not a normal cache and therefore a TB cannot be dropped in it. Secondly we have the no dipping rule. So a “visit” to a Earth Cache will not count. So with this in mind I decided to treat a visit to a Earth Cache as a “Drop”. And thereby also award 10 points.
  3. Hotel Visit
    • A TB Hotel is normally a very safe place to put a TB in and therefore a ideal place for our TB’s to go without the fear of it going missing. The points award for this is a additional 10 points.                             i.e.So what will happen is that if your TB goes to a cache that has a diff rating of 2.5 then your total points will be 25. 15 for the Diff/Terrain rating and 10 points for the TB hotel.


Bonus Points:


For February being the month of love I decided to use specific words that are found in the cache name, namely:
Love; Red; Hotel; February; Valentine; Heart; Cupid; Honey; Angel; Chocolate


If the TB is placed in a cache with any of those words you will get a additional 10 point bonus.
i.e a TB is placed in a cache with a 3.5 rating called: Urban Art - Through the Heart of Woodstock. So you will get the 15 points for the difficulty rating and as a bonus a further 10 points as Heart is a keyword.


I hope that I have explained the Bonus Points and Extra Points clearly. Ask questions if you don’t understand anything.

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