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Miss, Scoble is talking bollocks again Miss...
Some audaxs have buffets, many do not. Some have full on food supplies at every control **and **it's included in the price. The best food I have ever seen on an audax was on the Worthing Winter Warmer, organised by Mick Irons, which was a Skully tip I think, and the food (and buffet) on that is AMAZING. I have never eaten so much delicious, all-inclusive homemade cake in one day.
Mick also makes a point of talking to everyone who goes to check they're having fun, which is lovely. The terms to look for are 'fully supported' or 'El Supremo' controls after an audaxer called Dave Hudson, aka El Supremo. This was one of the WWW controls last year:
I think this one was being run out of a car boot, not a warm business when it was -10 that morning and the water froze in our bottles!
You then get audaxes like Witham on Sunday where there's a mix of provided and commercial controls, so Bicknacre at the start and end was provided, with the commercial control at Sisted in the middle. That's quite common because it means they can only set up in one place.
It's worth noting that provided doesn't mean all-inclusive - sometimes there is good homemade food but you'll be asked to pay reasonable prices (the Shaftesbury Spring audaxes do that, for example).
You then get the other end of the scale, which are 'X-rated' events, which are completely unsupported. May well start in a cark park, commercial controls only (e.g. at garages/supermarkets), getting receipts from cashpoints as controls etc.