Each year's Challenge event just gets bigger and better.
How's your poker face this year?
Come join us for this 7th Annual
Georgia Geocachers Association Challenge Event! This year's
Challenge promises to have good food, fun trails, fine friends and
challenging cache hides. We have a new and experienced group of
cache hiders that promise entertainment and challenge in the caches
they hide. For the safety of the hiders, we won't name them until
event time.
Cost
per GPSr participant will be $10.00 to offset the
cost of food, drinks and other. If you intend to participate,
please post a note or "will attend" and let us know how many
people will be in your party. And you do not have to play to attend
this event. There will lots of folks to mingle with
besides.
There will be tables and some chairs here at the event,
but due to limited availability, you are encouraged to bring one of
your own. Anyway, that 'custom' fit is always a
bonus.
This year's Challenge brings us to
the Elachee
Nature Science Center near Gainesville, Georgia on October
11th.
We'll also hear from Preserve
Manager Cynthia Taylor briefly about the Elachee Nature Science
Center.
We
will be playing a variation or modification of a Poker run. The
scoring system is more than fair, very generous and easy. There
will be a hierarchy list of poker hands to help you determine your
best hand. Don't forget about the huge prize table from last year.
This year we have dedicated procuring agents out scouring the land
for even greater prizes in value and quantity.
Check out last year's Event Fun Here
Schedule of Events
10:00 AM -- Check-In Begins -- fees, assignments etc.
11:30 AM -- Preserve Manager Cynthia Taylor speaks.
12:00 Noon -- Lunch -- burgers & hotdogs cooked on the
grill
12:30 PM -- Start -- cachers begin to head out
** There is a Three hour time limit on finding the caches
**
3:30 PM -- Cache Hunting Ends -- all cachers must be back
4:30 PM -- Prizes Awarded and social time
To facilitate loading
cache coordinates into GPS receivers that have a dataport, we plan
to have laptops available at Data Command Central. You might want
to bring your own data cable, as we may not have the one for every
variety of GPS receiver model.
THE GAME
The game is POKER.
You will need to find some caches in the woods while gathering
playing cards along the way to produce your best poker hand. Don't
know poker? Not to worry, there will be a chart on site depicting
the order of winning hands.
RULES:
REGISTRATION
Give your entrance fee and proceed to the cache assignment
selection boxes.
CHOOSING YOUR CACHE
ASSIGNMENT
When the start is given, each 'registered' player will go to the
drawing area to select their lot of caches to find. You may draw no
more than TWO slips of paper (no duplicates) from each of the six
containers to determine the cache hides you must find. This would
give you up to 12 cards to make your best 5 card poker
hand.
CHECKING OUT
Take the cache assignment slips you drew to the CheckOut table to
register your selections. Here you will be given a map of the
trails depicting where every cache hide is so you may plan a
strategy if you'd like. Now go Out into the field and begin your
adventure.
GETTING A PLAYING
CARD
Each cache hide will contain envelopes that hold one playing card.
The registered player will select one and only one envelope from
each 'assigned' cache hide. DO NOT OPEN ANY ENVELOPES
YET! Any envelope opened before checking in will be
disqualified. You CAN win with just a few cards, but the more you
find, the better your chances at a better poker hand. Now go find
the rest of your assigned caches and enjoy the unique experience
each hide will bring you.
REPORTING IN
Once you have found all of your cache assignments or you feel
lucky enough to stop short or time has expired, you will need to
take all of your envelopes to the CheckIn station where your
envelopes will be verified. You may now open your envelopes
to reveal the playing cards and start creating your best 5 card
poker hand.
Card trading is not allowed and
will result in a disqualification. We're here to have fun and win
on the merit of the cards dealt to us.
THINGS TO CONSIDER
Hunting with another
registered player - If you want to hunt with another
registered player, please consider this - by a random drawing of
cache assignments, you very likely will have drawn different cache
assignments than that person(s). You will then have to visit your
assigned caches to get a card and everyone else's assigned caches
for them to get their own cards. You will most definitely run into
or even hunt with other groups of cachers along the way, so use
this time to get to know your fellow cachers and have
fun.
Being FTC (First To
Complete) - The first player back having found all of their
cache assignments does not have any advantage over the player that
took all of the allotted time to find their's. However, the player
who finds twelve cache assignments will probably have an advantage
over the player who only found one cache assignment.
RECAP
- Player registers
with game fee.
- Draw your cache
assignments.
- Register those
assignments with the 'CheckOut' folks.
- Find those
assignments and collect one envelope from each cache
assignment.
- Report back to the
'CheckIn' Folks to have your envelopes verified.
- Open your envelopes
and create your best poker hand.
Come join us for a day of Fun, Food & Fellowship and
show everyone what kind of poker face you have.