Okay everyone, we have an announcement to make. I have been trying to figure this one out myself, but I’d like to make sure I’m not missing something. So here it goes. We have someone who has donated a TB to be awarded to the earliest person to have a TB going missing in the 2011 race. That’s right, a prize for going MISSING! Here’s how you can help.
Between know and this Friday (Dec 16th), I need everyone who had an entry in the 2011 race to check your bugs. If your bug went missing, please post a comment on here with the Reference # (that’s the one that starts with “TB” and is listed next to your bug’s name on the race rankings page here on the site) and the date it went missing. The earlier the better. I know of bugs that went missing, but then popped up again. I’m looking for bugs that went missing and were never heard from again.
If you released a copy tag during our one time copy tag release mid-year, you can still qualify for this prize.
So check your bugs. You have until Midnight, Central Time, on Friday, December 16th to enter your name.
Expect a points update soon (I’m tallying right now actually). Also expect some information about the 2011 prize pool. I am currently securing some more prizes for our top five winners. This is the last chance to make donations to the 2011 prize pool.
We also have gained some new sponsors for the race, including CoinsandPins, MyGeocachingStore, Podcacher, and Cacher’s Toy Box. Expect some news on that soon as well.
Keep those 2012 registrations coming. We are already past the 60 entry mark, and there is still two weeks left to enter.
TripCyclone
IMPORTANT NOTE:
When I ask for the date it went missing, I am looking for “When it was last seen.” Example. I have one racer that was last seen on January 12th. But it has a log entry from July from someone verifying that it hadn’t been seen that day. I would list the MIA date as January 12th. That also lets all of you know what the current date to beat is. If I don’t hear anything by the deadline, that item’s owner would be considered the winner.
Mario’s Racing Around TB40401 was placed in cache on 9/22/11. I contacted many of the Geocachers that visited the cache after it was placed and was told no one had seen Mario in the cache. By October 25 the owner discovered there was an issue but didnt’ report it MIA until 10/31/11. So not sure which date you will use. Mario had a good race and made it to Germany. So at least he got some great miles in before his dismise.
The one that is MIA as of January 12th is just sad and deserves the TB prize. They barely got to even participate!!! lol
Well mine never even made it to the start!
Rocking All Over The World ( TB3N1V9 ) was posted from the UK at the start of December 2010, it missed the start of the race having gone missing, but then CachingCop logged that he had received it on February 18th and would “move it along pronto”, but he never did.
So did this go missing before the start or does CachingCop’s February log count as last sighting?
My Travel Bug, Rudolph and the 2011 Great TB Race -TB20Z6D went missing between 03-30-2011 and 04-30-11.
It was dropped in a cache “close to work and home” on 3-30-11 and reported Missing on 4-30-11
LisaandDarin
Not mine (but I know the owner) but SMILE – (TB3MDXT) went missing on March 14, 2011 after a blistering 6.4km trip (3.9 miles).
It appears that others have gone missing prior to the disappearance of mine but in the event there are additional prizes for missing bugs before the race ends, my TB (Scrappydoopup’s GeoBoy Race Contestant, #TB3851V) was last documented as seen on June 18th.
TB2Q12R
Scooby Drew’s HQ Travel Tag Race Contestant
last movement entry on July 9th.
disregard my previous comment — by some miracle, someone has “grabbed” my HQ Travel Tag Race Contestant *today* and placed it into a cache sixteen miles from it’s last placement, FIVE MONTHS AGO. I only have 29 more positions to beat in the next 14 days! (anything is possible, huh?).
Any updates/decisions on the “winner”? Just Curious.