GC5PXRV Summer Vacation Travel Racer Drivers' Meeting 2015 (Event Cache) in Washington, United States created by SVTR Commissioner

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FugeFinders: Thanks to everyone who made it to the event. It was quick, but fun! I made one final edit to the event page. In the table you'll notice that the teams have been colored with their appropriate team.

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Hidden : Saturday, April 25, 2015

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Welcom to the fifth running of the Summer Vacation Travel Race!

For more information about participating in the race, please visit our Facebook page. We ask that we get all entries confirmed by April 11th (subject to change) so we can get all the TBs here in time for the race. We will have the option of mailing tags to participants this year. Other delivery options will be available based on proximity to the SVTR HQ! We will be holding the "Founders' Draft" at the event. Based on past years there may be a late registration at the event for you hold-outs.

So here are the details about the event itself: (Subject to change barring unforeseen circumstances)

Where: Aversano's Italian Restaurant
When: April 25th @ 6PM
Who: Any and all are welcome!
Participation in the race is not required to attend, and attending the event is not required to participate in the race.
Food: Italian food buffet.

So here is a little history about the race. In the summer of 2010, PhatBldGuy, ImLuckiest and FugeFinders had a little bet. We bet to see who could log the most miles from Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day weekend. The playing field was only the limit of your wallet. The idea is that we had our assigned TB "Visit" each cache that we found to accrue miles. At the end of the summer, the losing team would treat the winning team to dinner. (We are still waiting for our dinner.

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We learned some things from that little idea, and have made a few tweeks to make the race a little more fair.

Here are the rules:
Rules in italics are new this year.
1) The race runs from Saturday May 23rd until Monday September 7th.

2) The travel racer may be issued to a team. Team members must be identified prior to the start of the race.
    a) For a team member to log the racer, they must be in possession of the racer!

3) Racers may only be logged in physical caches.
    a) Earthcaches, Virtuals, Locationless, and Webcams are not allowed.
    b) Events of any type are allowed because you must sign a log to claim the event in most cases.
    c) Mystery caches are allowed, but keep in mind it may skew your mileage.

4) Only caches the team member in possession of the racer hasn't found before may be logged.

5) Caches owned by the team member in possession of the racer may NOT be logged.

6) Only caches in the state of WA are allowed. (This was a lesson learned from the first race, not everyone has the availability to travel all over the country.)

7) The item attached to the TB must be some mode of transportation. It must have wheels, wings, or have the ability to float. (Interpret that how you will.

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8) Pictures are encouraged, but not required! Forcing people to provide cache spoilers isn't fair to other cachers or the cache owners.

9) The TBs will be assigned to the teams, but they will remain under our ownership until after the race.
a) Teams may "grab" their trackables at the event, but are not allowed to dip them in any caches until the race officially starts.
b) When the race is over, we will "grab" them and "place" them at the finish line, virtually, for final numbers. This is also a good reason to be timely in your logging of your caches.

    c) The start line for those in attendance will be the event. For those who can't attend, it will be the closest cache to the main team member's house, found or not, owned or not.

10) Logging violations will be awarded a penalty.
    a) Penalties will be assessed weekly.
    b) Penalties will be handed down after the first incorrect logging of the trackable per week.
        1. No penalties will be awarded in the first two weeks of the race in order for everyone to get a feel for how the logging requirements work.
        2. Penalty values will be assessed after the two week "free" period.
            a) One log per team per week will be excused from penalty.
            b) Anymore than one illegal log will incur a weekly penalty based on the number of previous infractions.
                1. The first infraction will be awarded a 50 mile deduction.
                2. The second infraction will be awarded a 100 mile deduction.
                3. Any further infractions will be awarded a 200 mile dedcution.

11) Have fun! This is a friendly competition...no need for name calling, but friendly banter is perfectly fine!

Junior Division rules are the same as the Main Event rules.
(It is recommended, but not required, that multiple child families team their kids up. Most families cache as a group, and if they don't, the kids can swap the racer around to log extra miles!)

Requirements to enter are as follows:
1) Participants must be between the ages of 6 and 15. (If you can drive, you can play with the adults!)

2) Any geo-kids are eligible, not just ones with Geocaching.com accounts. (All non-account holders' trackables will be entrusted to their parents' account.)

(Mrs. Commissioner has a good idea for the kids trackables that aren't our standard Travel Racer tags!)

As stated above, attending the event is not a requirement, but it will be where the TBs are distributed so if you can't make the event we can make other arrangements to get you your TB.

So, what's in it for you? There will be some rewards at the end of the race. The winning team, the team with the longest single logged distance, and the team with the longest distance day will receive awards as well as the infamous "Stuck in the Gate" Award.

If we think of anything else, it will be posted here. As of now the start line will be the event and the finish line will be the "Awards Banquet" event after the race is over.

Participating Teams
Main Event	Junior Division
Terrible Ts	TKR
Team GBP Hoovers69 & Go-pher-it	TeaPot2007
teamscholtz	TheWeeSkis
WatchDOGSMike	The Hordelings BugLover01, CacheMonkey03, and KikiKaches
Captain Trevos&Crew	TBD
Team Gist	TBD
Happy Campers Bosiofan, Mrssme, Zarasha & Popeye99d	TBD
Frequent Fliers Geo-LMP & Bucket St. James	TBD
sproutter	TBD
duma332	TBD
Husbands Espenza Terpnurse & baesparza	TBD
Peach&Pete	TBD
2nd1of3	TBD
PapaSki	TBD
Waldrw	TBD