It's time once again for the
Canberran Caching Community to celebrate another great caching
year.
The Annual ACT Cache of the Year
event will be held on Sunday March 2, 2008 at 12.30 at Weston
Park.
Log into the ACT Forum
to view and place your nominations and to get the details on how to
vote.
Nominations are open until 6pm
on February 11 and the categories are:
1. Best Cache
2. Best Location
3. Most Original Cache
4. Best Photo
Voting will start on February 14
and run until 6pm on February 26,2008.
We are happy to announce that
Jason and his team from The Great Outdoors Centre in Phillip and
Lara and her team from Jurkiewicz Adventure Store in Fyshwick have
kindly donated some prizes for the category winners.
There are BBQ facilities
available in the park so bring along a picnic, a chair your friends
and family as well as your caching stories.
As with previous years there
will be a game held on the day so don't forget to bring your sense
of adventure, a pen, a notepad and GPS. This year we are holding a
game of Caching Scrabble and prizes will be awarded for 1st, 2nd
and 3rd place, if you would like to make a gold coin donation
towards the prizes to help offset the costs there will be a
container available on the day.
Game Details
There will be 30 film canisters
hidden on the day containing 610 game pieces consisting letters of
the alphabet, blank tiles, and bonus tiles these being Double Word
Score, Triple Word Score, Double Letter Score and Triple Letter
Score. Your mission is to build the highest scoring word while
following the rules that have been put into place.
Game
Rules
1. You can only collect a
maximum of 10 game pieces
2. You may only visit each cache once and
must a take a game piece from each
visited cache
3. If you find a bonus tile you may choose to take this or a
letter
4. You may only collect 1 bonus tile
5. You can not swap tiles within caches or with other players (ie
once you have taken a tile you must keep it)
6. A blank tile can be used as any letter of the players
choice
7. Only words listed in the standard English Dictionary are
allowed