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This event, being held in Auckland, is part of a Worldwide
Multi-Event on the 11th of November 2011, celebrating the date
11/11/11. It also happens to be the 11th month of the 11th year of
Geocaching!
An event geocoin will be available to celebrate the 11/11/11
Worldwide Multi-Event. This is a collectable, but fully trackable
geocoin designed for all of the events making up the multi-event
all around the world, with each individual event having it's own
unique coin colour scheme. See the Multi-Event Geocoin section
below for further details.
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WHERE: |
The published coordinates - Glen Eden Community
Centre (Ceramco Park), 120 Glen Dale Rd, Glen Eden, Auckland |
| WHEN: |
From 7pm, 11th November 2011 until late - don't worry if you
can't be there early, we'll be there until late, so come along
anyway! |
| WHAT: |
A huge variety of fun, games and prizes, for all ages, themed
around Geocaching and the number 11 |
| BRING: |
Bring some food and drink to contribute if you can, a bright
torch for some night-caching (and a UV torch if you've got one),
your GPS with charged up batteries, and your sense of
adventure! |
Last year we had a blast with our 10-10-10 event on the 10th of October and we
had about 110 participants. This year we want to go bigger and
better and we've gone all out to take the game prizes to a whole
other level.
So bring along friends and family - let's "turn it up, to
11!"
PROGRAM
The event will run from 7pm until late. We will try and stick to
the programme as outlined below, but turn up any time and join in
the fun.
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7:00 PM: |
Event begins, teams to register with Chris or Vera
of team funkymunkyzone upon arrival. Geo-Bingo and Geo-Snap games
begin. |
| 7:15 PM: |
Event welcome - everyone welcomed to the event, and the general
programme for the evening outlined. Details of the new Wherigo and
Chirp caches made available. The Wherigo cartridge can be
downloaded from a computer at the event. |
| 8:00 PM: |
Geo-Hunt begins - first team begins the hunt. Other teams head
out at approx 30 second intervals. Other stuff continues for those
remaining at the event HQ |
| 8:04 PM: |
Sunset. Thankfully, we don't need to coordinate this one! |
| 8:30 PM: |
Geo-Hunt - No more teams to head out on the Geo-Hunt after this
time, to ensure it can completed with enough time left for scoring
and prize giving. |
| 9:00 PM: |
Details of the nearby night-caches (2 new CSI multis) are made
available. Experienced and inexperienced geocachers team up to find
these caches any time after this*. 4 UV torches will be available
to borrow for the purpose of finding these caches. |
| 9:45 PM: |
Geo-Hunt officially ends - all teams should be back at event HQ
before this time. |
| 10:15 PM: |
Prize-giving. |
| 10:30 PM: |
Fun, games, food & drink, and general socialising
continues. The new night cache is there to be found too |
| 12:00 AM: |
Official end of the 11-11-11 event. CITO event begins* |
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*Cachers may choose to find the new caches after
midnight in order to make a "7+ challenge" attempt on
Saturday
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REGISTRATION
PACK
Upon arrival and registration for the event, you will receive a
registration pack. This pack will include:
- Event programme
- Geo-Bingo game sheet
- Geo-Snap game sheet
- Some Whittakers chocolates
Please bring a pen with you. We will have some pencils if
you don't have a pen, but not quite enough for everyone.
GEO-HUNT
The main event this year is the Geo-Hunt - a scavenger hunt that
will see teams head out from the event and follow a route around
the general area answering questions and searching for clues along
the way in order to solve a new multi-cache released during the
event. The route, described by turns, clues and other questions,
will be provided at the beginning of the hunt, and competing teams
will begin 30 seconds apart from each other.
The Geo-Hunt is intended to take teams around 60 to 75 minutes
to complete and will be scored on the answers obtained, and the
tracked distance on the GPS units. The answers obtained along the
way will yield the coordinates for the multi-cache (however all
teams will receive the final coordinates on completion of the hunt
regardless).
Scoring of team efforts will be based on the answers provided,
minus penalties for any extra distance travelled on the route over
and above the optimal distance, and prizes will be awarded as
follows:
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FIRST
PRIZE: |
A brand-new TomTom in-car navigation GPS unit
valued at $249. |
| SECOND
PRIZE: |
A 20 minute sprint race voucher for 4 people at
Formula E Indoor Raceway valued at $220. |
| THIRD
PRIZE: |
A prize pack including a geocaching T-shirt, a
compass, an LED torch, a large bison tube and a geocoin. |
The Geo-Hunt cache will be published on the night of the event,
and can be logged as a cache find by everyone who completes the
Geo-Hunt and signs the logbook. For the purposes of awarding "First
to Find" on this cache, the FTF will go to the first prize winner
of the Geo-Hunt.
GEO-BINGO
An old favourite for geocaching events, Geo-Bingo encourages
newbies to oldbies, friends and strangers to mix and get to know
each other.
 At the beginning of the event, each team will be
given an event pack that will include a Geo-Bingo card.
Each card will have eleven boxes, each with a category written
inside. The object of the game is to fill out the card with the
names of geocaching teams present at the event that fit each stated
category.
Sounds easy, doesn't it? But here's the twist: Participants will
score 1 point for a correct answer and a bonus 2 points if no other
team used the same answer for the same category. Furthermore, a
team can only be used for 1 answer on the Geo-Bingo card - any
further answers using that same team will be ignored and score 0
points.
The geocaching teams you can match to the categories on the
bingo card must be present and registered at the event, so this is
a great opportunity to introduce yourselves to others and find out
a little bit about each other.
As soon as you have completed the Geo-Bingo card, you can hand
it back in at the registration table, but make sure you have handed
it back in before 10pm.
There will be a number of prizes for the teams that find out the
most about others (and therefore score the highest):
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FIRST
PRIZE: |
A 20 minute sprint race voucher for 4 people at
Formula E Indoor Raceway valued at $220. |
| SECOND
PRIZE: |
An Auckland Harbour Bridge Climb experience with A
J Hackett, valued at $120. |
| THIRD
PRIZE: |
A prize pack including a camouflaged cache ready to
go, a geocaching badge, a travel bug tag, an LED torch and a
compass. |
GEO-SNAP!
 A new addition to this year's event, Geo-Snap is
another fun game intended to get everyone talking, and introducing
themselves, to each other. You can play it at the same time as
completing the Geo-Bingo, throughout the event.
In each team's event pack, which they will receive upon arrival
to the event, there will be a Geo-Snap sheet displaying a random
geocache symbol - one of the 7 displayed below - on 11 stickers
down the side of the sheet.
The objective of Geo-Snap is to discover, and trade stickers
with, 6 other teams with different symbols to your own, and
affixing your own plus their stickers to your Geo-Snap sheet,
completing the set of all 7 symbols.
Hold onto your Geo-Snap sheet until 10pm - don't hand it in
early even if you have completed it because there will be other
teams that will need to get your stickers in order to complete
their Geo-Snap sheet.
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Traditional |
Multi-cache |
Unknown |
Virtual |
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Letterbox |
Event |
Earthcache |
All complete Geo-Snap entries will go into a draw for the prizes
listed below:
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SPOT
PRIZE: |
Midget Car Driving Experience (driving a real
350bhp Midget Car on a dirt track oval) valued at $295 from Bryce
Townsend's Open Wheel Driving Experience |
| SPOT
PRIZE: |
A prize pack including a camouflage sunhat, a
camouflaged cache ready to go, a T-shirt, a compass, the
Splinterheads DVD and a Splinterheads travel bug tag. |
| SPOT
PRIZE: |
A prize pack including a camouflaged cache ready to
go, a compass, a travel bug tag, a torch, a geocaching badge and an
inspection mirror (for finding caches under boardwalks and
bridges). |
| MORE
PRIZES: |
12 more spot prize packs including a cache logbook
and a selection of other items including geocoins, bison tubes,
nano caches, geocache stickers and badges, and more... |
| EVEN MORE: |
We will also be giving away, as spot prizes, the
four UV torches that we have made available during the event for
the CSI-themed multi-caches. |
NEW
GEOCACHES
 Along with the Geo-Hunt multi-cache, there will
also be a Wherigo cache, a Chirp-based Mystery cache, and two
CSI-themed night multi-caches published in the vicinity of the
event. These caches will be placed on the day and will be available
for event attendees to find. They will all be published so they can
be logged in addition to the event cache, and these caches will
remain in place after the event is finished.
For these caches, we ask that experienced geocachers team up
with less experienced geocachers for the hunts, and space
yourselves out so it's not one big group heading out to find them
together - these are not intended for an FTF race, but rather for
some friendly transfer of caching experience from older to newer
geocachers, while attempting some less usual and more interesting
geocache types.
The FTF for all of these, except the Geo-Hunt multi-cache, will
be listed as all of the event attendees.
OTHER
PRIZES
There will be a few miscellaneous prizes awarded during the
evening, for various categories, or random draws, as listed
below:
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NEWEST
CACHER: |
YuGeo4 will award one of their "Why You Geo For?"
geocoins to a "newbie" geocacher at the event. |
| LONG DISTANCE: |
Rosmar will award a 2011 Wales Mega geocoin to the cacher who
has come the furthest from home to be at the event. |
| YOUNGEST: |
We will be presenting the youngest geocacher present at the
event with a prize pack including a camo sunhat, a T-shirt, a
Geo-Kids badge, a Vampire travel bug tag, a bracelet and a bag of
sweets. |
| 2ND YOUNGEST: |
We will also be presenting the second youngest geocacher
present at the event with a prize pack including a camo sunhat, a
T-shirt, a Geo-Kids badge, a Vampire travel bug tag, a bracelet and
a bag of sweets. |
| OLDEST & WISEST: |
The oldest geocacher present at the event will win a prize pack
including a camo sunhat, a geocaching badge, an LED torch, a
compass and a geocaching pin. |
| EVENT GEOCOIN: |
For anyone who purchases an event geocoin on the night, we will
draw one lucky purchaser out of a hat and they will also win a
Dunedin 11-11-11 event geocoin to go with their Auckland event
coin. |
| SPOT PRIZE: |
Darby & Joan will give away an LED flashlight as a random
spot prize for an event attendee. |
If anyone wishes to contribute, or suggest, a specific prize
for any particular purpose, or geocaching team, please get in touch
with team funkymunkyzone prior to the event.
MULTI-EVENT
GEOCOINS
To celebrate the 11/11/11 Worldwide Multi-Event, a geocoin will
be minted and a uniquely and individually coloured edition of this
coin released for each event around the world. These multi-event
coins are fully trackable and have a unique icon.
The geocoin for the Auckland event is shown below and limited
numbers will be available for sale to event participants at a cost
of $15 per coin. If you would like to purchase one (or more) of
these geocoins, please log your intention so that we know what kind
of numbers to expect.
The coin is 1.75" in diameter, finished in polished Nickel, and
is beautifully detailed and textured. The coin is coloured with
transparent colours that show through the delicate textures and
patterns designed into the coin.
Judging from past years, these multi-event geocoins are sought
after and very collectible after the event, so if you want one,
take the opportunity to get one while they are restricted to event
participants only. After the event, these coins will be available
for general sale. The Auckland event coins will be strictly limited
to a minting of just 75 coins.
Everyone who purchases an Auckland event coin on the night
will also go into a draw to win a Dunedin 11-11-11 event coin -
thanks Guwapo (Dunedin event organiser)!
PRESENTATIONS
Throughout the event at various times, there will be video
presentations running, including photos and videos from various
geocaching adventures, along with an Earthcaching video prepared by
team funkymunkyzone for a recent Geocaching Skills Day event.
If you have any interesting photos or videos from past
geocaching adventures that you would like to include, please
contact us through our profile.
FOOD &
DRINK
There will be a selection of goodies to feast on celebrating the
11-11-11 date, along with a selection of beverages. Everyone is
welcome and encouraged to bring something along, if they can. Don't
worry if you can't because you're travelling from far and wide, but
whatever contributions anyone can make will be welcomed. The venue
does have facilities to reheat food if necessary.
IT'S A SOCIAL EVENT
TOO!
Put names and faces to geocaching ids - meet the people behind
the names you've seen on log sheets. Share your war stories and get
tips and tricks from the old-hats. Most of all, have fun!
All of the activities in this event are optional - take part in
the fun or relax and chat. It's all up to you, but just come along
and be a part of the action. Everyone is welcome - together let's
make this the best and biggest event New Zealand geocaching has
seen!
SPECIAL
THANKS...
We would like to offer our thanks to some organisations for
making this event bigger and better by offering prizes and other
goodies. Please click here to see the list of our friendly
sponsors.
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