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I know I write 500 words where 3 or 4 might do but here's a few more.
Scoring...
This is an alleycat, it's all about speed and finding shit and being sneaky as fuck with your shortcuts.
I'm giving points for how fast you complete the course and for completing the tasks based on this system -
First one back gets five points, second gets four, third gets three, fourth gets two and fifth gets one. Rest of pack get zero.
For each correct question answered you get one point, there are seven questions.
Maximum score is thus 12 points.
But if you get back super fast with only three correct answers because you either skipped stages or didn't take 0.0003 seconds to write it down then you could be beaten by the guy in third place who took that extra nanosecond...
There won't be any ties.
If two (or more) riders get the same score we will have a sudden death sprint and task, I'll send you both to do one last (very short) stage and task, if you're still drawn then we'll have a trackstand-off or armwrestle. or pillowfight, or wedgie contest... or I'll just concede that you're both awesome...
There will be spot prizes, apart from 1st, 2nd and 3rd... not going to give away which positions but it will be something like fifth from last place, third from last etc... my thinking is I want to encourage you to keep going even if you know you're not going to win overall, these spot prizes won't be huge but think along the lines of a beer or two and a free pass to my next alleycat...
My gf Kris is doing a dry run of the race today, all leisurely, make sure my clues make sense and the route is ok.
Roll on the 9th.