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[poozle]

[London Event] The Day

[Guin]

Wow what a day Im still hyper from all the running around.

Had a realy fantastic time and it was great to meet everyone at last. When can we do it again!!!!!! Well need to get sorted and drive back to little home in the North

CYA all later and hurry up with the morse code translation (could being sent to the London Eye (L EYE - LIE - pure [SPEC] without knowing the conntent of the message) be yet another case of us being used??? but as its the only vantage point probably me being too paranoid!

well later guys

[poozle]

Ok, (I was trying to post this all last night but it just kept telling me that I couldn't post so soon). I think the timing got messed up (which is why my post kept going to the bottom yet was the 1st post).

anyway.

I now have carp webcam images of some of the stuff you could buy/get.

The Mug:
http://www.tgsforum.net/pictureupload/PPC/MUG.jpg
The T-Shirt:
http://www.tgsforum.net/pictureupload/PPC/TShirt.jpg
The Leitmark:
http://www.tgsforum.net/pictureupload/PPC/Leitmark.jpg
The Bag:
http://www.tgsforum.net/pictureupload/PPC/BAG.jpg

And tally would have been great to meet you aswell, next time maybe.

[ChalcoDoror]

That was such a fun event!

I was part of Serpentine Road, the team with the skates!
For those who don't know, Serpentine Road is the road in Hyde Park where most of the weekend stuff takes place.

The skates were very useful it turned out, especially in the fruit race! Props to all those who laughed at us when they ran to Leicester Square the long way while we put them on, it was worth seeing your faces when we got there before you.

I must admit, we didn't have much to do with the morse code bit at the end, well, one of our team did, but the rest of us were looking out the window at London. Also we had a feeling of "too many cooks" and thought it was best.

All in all, we missed so many challenges, inc the whole National Gallery trail, we got part way through, but were running out of time, so asked a guard and information person, who said one portrait in one of the eastern rooms had gone to Paris! Well, he was wrong...

And maybe we shouldn't all have had a Kwak in De Hems bar...

And maybe I should have looked where I was going when we were on the way to Centrepoint tower, hit a potholl for a spectacular stack (fall). My team left me behind (standard procedure) and all these pedestrians came over to see if I was alright, to which I responded with a "course I am, its just a flesh wound"

[amliag]

ohhhhh what a fantastic day.
The Red Folks (yes we were the ones with the headscarves!) came 14th which we were very pleased with, especially after spending a lot of time being confused in the National Gallery and not managing to find ANYTHING to do with Robinson Crusoe

Great to meet you all and put a few faces to names

[ChalcoDoror]

Also liked doing the 'free trade' thing at base camp, I didn't need any cards, so if I had a card someone needed, I traded it for any same colour card.

Might do that from now on, or give to deserving causes.

[poozle]

[poozle]

[doublecross]

A great day was had by all!

Short explanation:

We were given a question sheet that had different categories of question on it:

16 questions requiring observation from walking round an area of central London (roughly stretching from Piccadilly Circus to Charing Cross) that we had to text back to HQ for varying amounts of points (10-40). With hindsight the questions were in a good walking order, although those that did it backwards didn't get waylaid by the anti terrorism march and demonstration. (340 points)

A special National Gallery section that gave cryptic clues for a trail through the gallery with a bumper 250-point question at the end to tempt us. Also to be texted. (370 points)

Six photo questions that required you to MMS photos of your team in various locations (360 plus open-ended 5 points per letter photo)

Two questions requiring you to be witnessed either singing as a choir or playing video games (180)

Two questions that required you to compete against other teams building a biscuit tower or spelling backwords (60 plus open-ended 10 points per letter spelling).

Six? trivia questions texted through the day (60)

Three or four other tasks texted through the day (?)

I especially liked the 'race' that involved eating fruit as fast as possible at the end - kudos to teammate sotonrich for running ahead (not yet knowing he would have to do this) and consuming an apple, banana and orange in record time!

Is foul play suspected with the missing 'goat' banners in Gerrard Street?

That the winning team scored 1200 points from the above is spectacular!

[poozle]

[fabs_uk]

[psyche]

[ALISDAIRPARK]

What a day! and not just the event for me (one of Reservoir Frogs). I got there about an hour after it started after travelling by taxi, plane, coach, on foot through muddy fields, hitchhiking, train then tube!! If only I'd been on time we could have done even better!!

And I had to leave early so missed the whole London Eye/ morse thing. Is someone going to pull together the full detail for that? And did anyone go?

What was said about points? There doesn't look like any change to the leaderboard, but there's another thread that says some teams will get points?? Anyone shed light?

[poozle]

[ChalcoDoror]

Were there Ram banners?
I wasn't sure, we spent a good couple of minutes there looking for it. And there were about 8 or so banners missing. We were there about 1:10pm and couldn't find anything...