Geography Rally Game
 

Rules:

> This is a mileage game. The object is to be the player with the fewest accumulated miles. There are ten stages (destinations) to the rally. You are striving to get the shortest distance between your destinations.

> You will be told the destination of both the current and subsequent stage. Plan accordingly.

> You may not duplicate someone else’s destination. Duplicate entries are disqualified, unless the original poster edits or deletes their post and uses a different destination.

> The top five posted answers are the only ones that count. Everyone else is grouped into “the pack” (kind of like the Tour de France, although I don’t know the specific rules involved in that). The pack scores the same answer as the 5th-best answer for the question.

> IMPORTANT: Once a minimum of five answers have been posted, anyone (usually the person with the best answer, but it doesn’t matter whom) can post the word “Pack” as a one-word post to end the round. The round does not end until someone does this, so the time limit on a round can be very short or very long.

> Only the top five answers count. It doesn’t matter how many answers are posted beyond five – only the top five count.

> Editing and deleting answers is permissible, but edits must be made before the word “Pack” is posted. Edits or entries made after the word “Pack” is posted disqualifies that entry.

I’ll wait for a bit to see if there are any questions, then we’ll proceed with the first stage.

Any rules on internet/map searches?

Nope

Ok... and how specific of a location can we get? Building names? Street Names? City names only? etc, etc.. ;)

Don't know why i'm being so anal, especially when I'm about to head for my lunch break...

I don't quite get what the overall goal of the game is - could you elaborate?

What form do you want our answers to take? Should we be posting things like highway/street names? Or are we just posting a series of cities, for instance?

Or is this still evolving?

QS just worded my question much better than I did...

Sorry for the delay.

The destinations will be along the lines of "a city in Sweden" or "a Pac-10 college town." Cities and towns, worldwide.

RPI, the goal is to move from your current destination to the next destination in the shortest number of miles. If you are in Dallas, for example, and need to go to a Pac-10 town, you'd want Tucson or Tempe rather than Seattle or Pullman. The variance will depend upon where each individual (and the pack) starts that stage.

Okay, everyone starts in the same spot, which is Washington DC.

Stage 1 Destination: A state capital located west of the Mississippi River.

And for planning purposes only (don't go there yet!):

Stage 2 Destination: A state capital located east of the Mississippi River.

Jefferson City

Des Moines, Iowa

Little Rock, AR

I assume you mean AR, prime? :D:D:D

Hmm. Are you trying to tell me there is no Little Rock, Alaska? :) Yes I meant AR. :)

Springfield, IL

St Paul, MN

Pack

Pack.

(Is this right?)

Wade that is east of the Mississippi. :)

springfield IL is definitely not west of the mississippi, and looking at a map of the river, I'm not sure if St Paul is either... hmm

St. Paul, MN

St. Paul is on the east bank of the Mississippi - I lived in the twin cities for many years

Does Coug have to say go for stage 2?

We only have 4 correct answers so far.

Correct.

Not sure. I saw the work Pack and assumed stage 2 was on. If not, I retract my answer (temporarily)

edit: Saw Coug's message and deleted my early entry.

ok so st paul and springfield ar eboth out.

Oklahoma City, OK

Do you have to start stage 2? Or once we get 5 answers and someone claims pack we just go?

Pack

Baton Rouge, LA

PACK, and now we wait for WSU I assumE?

Austin, TX

stage 1 - Lincoln , NE

I think we have to wait for Coug, he'll give us the destination for Stage 3 to let us plan our best answers from there

You should wait for WSU Cougar, because you need to know the 3rd destination.

Todd

Where are we starting from? Is it only the top 5 people that continue? If you were in the pack where are you coming from? I am confused so easily :)

ACK, sorry. St. Paul is incorrect as well. Back to 4 correct answers for Stage 1:

Jefferson City, MO
Des Moines, IA
Little Rock, AR
Oklahoma City, OK

Guys, I think we need to wait for WSU before moving on,... he has to confirm there are correct answers, etc...

Let me change that to Lincoln, NE

I have no idea :~)

We now have 5...

If you are not in the Top 5, you start where #5, ended up.

PACK

who gets credit for Lincoln, both answers were done at 12:52pm?

Stage 1 is over...standby.

Ah I understand now. Thanks.

Don't think it really matters since it will be #5, I believe and we both start there.

Todd

Good point.

Watch out for Muzzin and the big Russian, Belov. They may push the pace...

1. RPI Fan (Jefferson City, MO) = 819 miles

2. digamma (Des Moines, IA) = 895 miles

3. primelord (Little Rock, AR) = 897 miles

4. henry296 & Split P (Lincoln, NE) = 1052 miles

5. PACK (Oklahoma City, OK) = 1153 miles


Stage 2 Destination: State capital located east of the Mississippi River

Stage 3 Destination: City or town in Italy

stage 2 - St. Paul, MN

Jackson, MS

Springfield, IL

off to lunch. Hopefully, you guys won't get too far in front of me.

Richmond, Virginia

Nashville, TN

edit, damn RPI fan

Pack

Wow... Call my boss for 5 minutes, and I miss the entire 2nd stage. Do you think it is worthwhile to expand to 10 finishers?

Stage 1 Winner: RPI Fan
Stage 2 Winner: RPI Fan

Overall Standings:
RPI Fan (Springfield, IL) = 979 miles
primelord (Jackson, MS) = 1104 miles
Split P (St. Paul, MN) = 1390 miles
Radii (Nashville, TN) = 1757 miles
digamma (Richmond, VA) = 1800 miles
PACK (Richmond, VA) = 2058 miles

Stage 3 Destination: City or town in Italy

Stage 4 Destination: City or town in one of the original NATO countries, other than Italy

Vercelli, Italy

edit: Torino Italy

La Thuile - a small town near the French-Italian border - due west of Aosta and due NW of Torino

Naples, Italy

Florence

Pack

Stage 3 is completed...standby.

WSUCougar,

How did my distance get calculated. At the end of stage 1 I was in Lincoln, then I was part of the pack in Richmond. Did you calculate my distance from Lincoln to Richmond or from the pack to the pack. Based on Mapquest, that would add ~1200 miles to my score for ~2300 and beyond the pack,

Todd

Stage 1 Winner: RPI Fan
Stage 2 Winner: RPI Fan
Stage 3 Winner: rkmsuf

Overall Standings:
RPI Fan (Torino, Italy) = 5648 miles
Split P (La Thuile, Italy) = 5906 miles
rkmsuf (Vercelli, Italy) = 6338 miles
digamma (Naples, Italy) = 6491 miles
henry296 (Florence, Italy) = 6506 miles
primelord (Naples, Italy) = 6584 miles
PACK (Naples, Italy) = 6749 miles

Stage 4 Destination: City or town in one of the original NATO countries, other than Italy

Stage 5 Destination: City or town in Mexico

Chamonix, France

Marseilles, France

Nice, France

Lincoln to Richmond. You cannot be beyond the pack, though. You went back into the pack. That's the lowest common denominator.

Montvalezan, France - a small town near the French-Italian border - due east of Albertville

Coug - FYI - via Mapquest - La Thuile, Italy to Monvalezan, France is 18.76 miles

Any chance of a break from 5pm to 5:30pm EDT for people to get home from work?;)

Saint-Tropez, France

Nice. :D

Avignon, France

Pack

Pack

Nice pun. (pun intended)

;)

(digamma's original answer was Nice)

Stage 4 has ended...standby.

What's the feeling on continuing today? Or should we start-up again tomorrow?

Tomorrow!:)

Tomorrow.

tomorrow, please (I really need to get some work done) :)

Tomorrow is fine with me.

Stage 1 Winner: RPI Fan
Stage 2 Winner: RPI Fan
Stage 3 Winner: rkmsuf
Stage 4 Winner: SplitPersonality1

Overall Standings:
RPI Fan (Nice, France) = 5747 miles
Split P (Montvalezan, France) = 5939 miles
rkmsuf (Chamonix, France) = 6426 miles
henry296 (Marseilles, France) = 6804 miles
digamma (Saint-Tropez, France) = 6920 miles
primelord (Saint-Tropez, France) = 7013 miles
PACK (Saint-Tropez, France) = 7178 miles

Stage 5 Destination: City or town in Mexico

Stage 6 Destination: TBA

Stage 5 will begin tomorrow morning at around 8:00 am Central. DO NOT POST YOUR DESTINATION UNTIL I POST AT THAT TIME.

bump for the morning gang

And they're off!

Stage 5 Destination: City or town in Mexico

Stage 6 Destination: Big Ten college city or town

Matamoros

Guadalajara

Piedras Negras

Is it just me or has traffic on the board been rather slow as of late?

No, I've noticed that too. Vacations and all, I guess.

Puerto Juarez, Mexico

Merida, Mexico

PACK

Stage 1 Winner: RPI Fan
Stage 2 Winner: RPI Fan
Stage 3 Winner: rkmsuf
Stage 4 Winner: SplitPersonality1
Stage 5 Winner: SplitPersonality1

Split P (Puerto Juarez, Mexico) = 11,319 miles
RPI Fan (Matamoros, Mexico) = 11,447 miles
digamma (Merida, Mexico) = 12,468 miles
rkmsuf (Guadalajara, Mexico) = 12,548 miles
wade moore (Piedras Negras, Mexico) = 12,850 miles
henry296 (Guadalajara, Mexico) = 12,944 miles
primelord (Guadalajara, Mexico) = 13,213 miles
PACK (Guadalajara, Mexico) = 13,378 miles

Stage 6 Destination: Big Ten college city or town
Stage 7 Destination: Town associated with significant Civil War battlefield*

*at judge’s discretion, but use common sense = I should have heard of it

Champagne, IL