Wanna play a game?
The Alberta Battlecache is a game of "battleship" that is played with geocaches. This competition will be held over the summer months between June 1st and August 31. At the end of that period we will host an event to announce winners of the game and just have a good time together.
Join the fun!
To participate in the Alberta Battlecache, just sign up through the www.albertabattlecache.ca website. Registration is free and easy and once you're registered you can read all about the game rules and other fun stuff but most importantly, take a shot at the Game Board. We even made it easy to participate by providing tools that help you to get the caches you need!
Game rules
Just like the original board game Battleship the objective of the game is to sink as many ships of your opponent as you can. To take a shot, you have to find a geocache.
To determine the grid coordinate of a "shot" on the Game Board, use the GC code of the found cache (e.g., GC25EWD). Disregard the leading 'GC' characters and use the remaining characters to form a valid grid coordinate. In the example, valid points could be E2, E5, W2, W5, D2 and D5, depending on the game board.
Any physical or event cache counts towards this competition, caches do not have to be found in Calgary or even Alberta. So it can be perfectly combined with the caches you find during your summer holiday.
Just because the game is underway, doesn't mean you can't step in now. All caches you found or hidden since June 1st still count for the game!
Wrap up event
On Saturday September 11, 2021 we will host a wrap up event where the winners of the prizes are announced. The event will run from 11am to about 1pm.
Sponsors
By buying shots for the board, you're sponsoring the game. Most of the proceeds go to buying the prizes that can be won, some go to the event and some to maintain the server on which the game runs. Your support is much appreciated!
The sponsors for this year were:
- 1Cat2NV
- 3Teas
- Bundles of Energy
- Cachemoney08
- Chelseanne
- Chipchic
- choice1
- Dalcol
- Eladttob
- Geomamma4
- geometric1
- green ducks
- hunthikers
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- i*C*e
- Ka'anapali Spirit
- KinderKen
- KlondikeChris
- KN77
- Lifesahwy
- nachtmusik
- NurseB33
- PurpleQuilter
- Screef2020
- The Fearsome Four
- trefoil/voyager
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Special thanks to those who donated prizes:
- NurseB33
- Chelseanne
- Three Stars
Winners
The winners for this year were:
| Overall #1: |
Lady_Viper |
| Runner up: |
ZeiraZeira |
| #3: |
Geomamma4 |
| Flag officers: |
J2D2 |
| Senior officers: |
MidnightCougar |
| Junior officers: |
Three Stars |
| Acting Sub-Lt: |
3Teas |
| Efficient cachers: |
Galloping Gourmet |
| All players: |
Fillibusters |
| Doorprizes: |
MANY present cachers |
Statistics
Another good year of participation to the Battlecache game. We had 119 active players that has a combined find count of 26,305 caches and used 18,073 of those to take a shot. Of those shots, only 31% or 5,607 were hits.
The most efficient board in this years game was played by Trefoil/Voyager, who managed to get 17 hits with 28 shots:
Shoutout to geometric1 who had a pretty interesting board:
Personal banner
Spread the word on the game and show others that you're participating by placing a banner on your profile. The instructions for that are displayed on the www.albertabattlecache.ca website once you have registered.
Notes
- Please register for this event by logging your Will Attend with the number of people in your group.
- If you are feeling ill the day of the event, please stay home.