Moving Cache Race 2011 / 2012 - Theme Poll

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What do you want for this years theme?

Poll ended at 10 September 11 12:54 pm

Frogs
60
20%
Piggy banks (any shape)
24
8%
Other garden ornaments (gnomes included, but not frogs)
14
5%
Nature (Plants preferably plastic, rocks, dog poop, etc)
10
3%
Lego (individual pieces, collections, fully assembled kits)
14
5%
Pots and Pans (kitchen themed)
7
2%
Rocket in your Pocket (starship / outer space themed)
10
3%
Zombies / Graveyards / Undead / Vampire /Werewolf (Halloween style)
31
10%
Glow in the Dark (solar lights, GitD painted, LED light)
26
9%
Pet Toys
10
3%
Christmas Decorations (Santas, Baubles, etc)
11
4%
Shoes
13
4%
Keyrings / souvenirs from your location
8
3%
Vehicles (not your own car, matchbox, etc)
12
4%
Real world moving items (cows, horses, sheep, bikes, wheelchairs, etc)
6
2%
Eclipse tins (you vote for this I'll ban you)
9
3%
Faeries (mushrooms, toadstools, faeries, goblins, trolls, NO gnomes, etc)
40
13%
 
Total votes: 305

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Re: Moving Cache Race 2011 / 2012 - Theme Poll

Post by caughtatwork » 21 September 11 10:59 pm

Last year there were some 236 gnomes in the race. I am expecting (hoping) there may be that many again, maybe more.

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Post by MakkyBrown » 21 September 11 11:30 pm

Is it worth considering charging a small entry fee per frog. We would like one pathtag please for each of our entries if possible, and am happy to donate $50 towards specifically buying tags.

We are planning to enter 4-5, atleast one per team member. Maybe a mechanism needs to be in place to encourage thoughtful and unique entries that can continuing moving about the country creating interest long after the race finishes just like gnomes. Is it possible mass saturation entries of the same frog(s) could detract from the race and long term interest in caching for frogs.

Really looking forward to this years race.
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Re: Moving Cache Race 2011 / 2012 - Theme Poll

Post by MakkyBrown » 21 September 11 11:39 pm

I recon you will get more than 500 entries and potentially see the size of the race grow exponentially year on year.

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Re: Moving Cache Race 2011 / 2012 - Theme Poll

Post by Rigger64 » 21 September 11 11:48 pm

MakkyBrown wrote:Is it worth considering charging a small entry fee per frog. We would like one pathtag please for each of our entries if possible, and am happy to donate $50 towards specifically buying tags.

We are planning to enter 4-5, atleast one per team member. Maybe a mechanism needs to be in place to encourage thoughtful and unique entries that can continuing moving about the country creating interest long after the race finishes just like gnomes. Is it possible mass saturation entries of the same frog(s) could detract from the race and long term interest in caching for frogs.

Really looking forward to this years race.
I will Second the idea of an entry fee per frog if you want a tag per frog entry.
My thought are like the price of the tag + postage(or Stamped Self addressed envolope) at least to cover the costs.
So that C@W(GCA) is not wearing all the costs.

Just My 2c worth less Tax & GST

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Re: Moving Cache Race 2011 / 2012 - Theme Poll

Post by FelixII » 22 September 11 7:20 am

\:D/ Well I have already got 4 frogs ready to race and looking for another but with specific requirements. Don't think we will need 5 pathtags but 2 would be nice.

Happy to meet any costs for them! Soooo looking forward to the race, and the lunacy of racing straight out of the house day/ night hoping to find the little critters before the next cacher.

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Re: Moving Cache Race 2011 / 2012 - Theme Poll

Post by caughtatwork » 22 September 11 8:50 am

For the moment, on the matter of pathtags, let's put them aside. The goal of Leap Frog are the caches, the finding, the moving, the entertainment of pictures and video, the funm the camaraderie, the competition. Pathtags are just a nice bonus.

Thank you to everyone who has offered financial support for the procurement of the pathtags. I'll look at options to minimise the cost, while still rewarding the participants. I don't want to charge anything for the reward. If we charge, it's not a reward.

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Re: Moving Cache Race 2011 / 2012 - Theme Poll

Post by blossom* » 22 September 11 2:56 pm

At least it's not so likely that the frogs this year will be a huge and heavy as some of the gnomes last year! Frogs are nice, small, neat little packages.

...........

Aren't they? :shock:

PS bubbles_baby, we don't want too many melt-in-your-hand entries either!!!

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Post by Laighside Legends » 22 September 11 5:24 pm

blossom* wrote:At least it's not so likely that the frogs this year will be a huge and heavy as some of the gnomes last year! Frogs are nice, small, neat little packages.

...........

Aren't they? :shock:

PS bubbles_baby, we don't want too many melt-in-your-hand entries either!!!
I was thinking something along this line...
Image

:mrgreen:

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Re: Moving Cache Race 2011 / 2012 - Theme Poll

Post by budgietas » 22 September 11 6:52 pm

Caught at work's noble comments about the path tags payment aside, maybe people who want to can donate through the geocaching shop..... $5 donation is available - and you can do multiples.

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Re: Moving Cache Race 2011 / 2012 - Theme Poll

Post by caughtatwork » 22 September 11 7:31 pm

Hang off on the donations for the moment.

I have had a few people suggest that maybe a "get one / buy some" offer may work.
e.g. Every cacher who hides a Leap Frog gets a tag and then, somehow, we make an offer through the shop where you can buy some more.

Still working the logistics of that idea.

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Re: Moving Cache Race 2011 / 2012 - Theme Poll

Post by MtnLioness » 22 September 11 7:36 pm

So I think we should have some common word for these frogs so they're easier to find
What about CR11 - Cache Race 2011
Or just FROG11 or even F11?

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Re: Moving Cache Race 2011 / 2012 - Theme Poll

Post by caughtatwork » 22 September 11 7:46 pm

I'm going to suggest you add the word leapfrog to the public tags of your cache. Then you can make a query which looks for leapfrog caches :-)

The Leap Frog wiki page will give you information about how to do that.
http://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/Leapfrog

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Re: Moving Cache Race 2011 / 2012 - Theme Poll

Post by blossom* » 22 September 11 7:49 pm

My query last year was "moveable" and "hidden date 1/12/2010" That got all the gnomes but the public tag idea is better :D

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Re: Moving Cache Race 2011 / 2012 - Theme Poll

Post by caughtatwork » 22 September 11 7:51 pm

blossom* wrote:My query last year was "moveable" and "hidden date 1/12/2010" That got all the gnomes but the public tag idea is better :D
Yeah, then you don't have to worry about other moveable caches hidden on the same day.

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Re: Moving Cache Race 2011 / 2012 - Theme Poll

Post by Laighside Legends » 22 September 11 10:23 pm

caughtatwork wrote:
blossom* wrote:My query last year was "moveable" and "hidden date 1/12/2010" That got all the gnomes but the public tag idea is better :D
Yeah, then you don't have to worry about other moveable caches hidden on the same day.
Are there any? :D

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