dragonZone: Spring Caching Carnival

Spring Caching Carnival is a game where geocaching Dinosaur Racers will race around the world accumulating finds, moves and distance in order for their owner to be crowned King or Queen of the Spring Caching Carnival.

The game requires you to hide a moving geocache on Geocaching Australia on the 1st of September 2018 and then you can sit back and watch as your Dinosaur Racer travels Australia and the world. You can also help other Dinosaur Racers by finding and moving them along at Geocaching Australia.

The game software will keep an automatic track of your Dinosaur Racer and will automatically calculate distances and stops as your Dinosaur Racer moves around the country.

What are the Dinosaur Racers up to?

• List of all known Dinosaur Racers sorted by distance from home


• GPX file of all known Dinosaur Racers


• ZIP GPX file of all known Dinosaur Racers


• A map of all known Dinosaur Racers

What to do?

• List a moveable geocache at Geocaching Australia.


• Your Dinosaur Racer must be a dinosaur. A real dinosaur. Not a plastic box you call a dinosaur. A genuine, real life, bone fide dinosaur.


• We recomend you clearly mark your GAnnnnn code on your Dinosaur Racer to distinguish it from 100 other identical Dinosaur Racers.


• Publicly tag your Dinosaur Racer via your geocache page with springcachingcarnival in order to enter the game (do this before you publish your Dinosaur Racer).


• Set your Dinosaur Racer to have a hidden date of 1 September 2018.


• Publish your Dinosaur Racer on 1 September 2018.


• Check the co-ordinates of your Dinosaur Racer are correct by checking it on the geocache page map.


• Assist other Dinosaur Racers by finding them and moving them along.

Rules of the game

• Your Dinosaur Racer must be a genuine, bone fide dinosaur. It may be store bought or hand crafted. We recomend you clearly mark your GAnnnnn code on your Dinosaur Racer to distinguish it from 100 other identical Dinosaur Racers.


• Caches for the competition must be published on 1 September 2018 Australian Eastern Daylight Time (Geocaching Australia Time).


• Geocaching Australia has the facility to automatically publish your Dinosaur Racer on 1 September 2018. Check the wiki for how to achieve this.


• The game administrators decision is final.


• You may find and move your own Dinosaur Racer during the game period.


• Dinosaur Racers must be found and hidden by the same geocacher (i.e. no mailing the Dinosaur Racer to another geocacher to hide).


• There is no limit to the number of times a geocacher can find / move the Dinosaur Racer provided there are at least two other finds / moves in between.


• If the Dinosaur Racer has not moved within 7 days and you were not the last geocacher to find or move it then the "rule of two other finds / moves" does not apply and you are free to move the Dinosaur Racer again.


• If the Dinosaur Racer has not moved within 14 days, even if you were the last geocacher to find or move it then you are free to move the Dinosaur Racer again.


• If a geocacher moves your Dinosaur Racer overseas and it remains unfound overseas for 1 week or more, the Dinosaur Racer mover may move your Dinosaur Racer back to the country of origin without breaking the "2 moves" rule.


• There is no limit to the distance other geocachers can move the Dinosaur Racer.

Etiquette

• Avoid rehiding a Dinosaur Racer far from active geocachers territory as it basically exits the dinosaur from the race


• When rehiding a Dinosaur Racer get good co-ordinates. Seriously. Don't dump and run. Get co-ords as you would a permanent geocache


• When making your log against a Dinosaur Racer include a good hint so the finder can identify whether it's been moved, muggled or just a bad GPS day


• This is a challenge of moving Dinosaur Racer along, not trying to make them impossible to find, so help you fellow players out by making the game enjoyable


• Please avoid hiding movable caches near existing Groundspeak or Geocaching Australia geocaches. At Groundspeak geocaches they go missing as rubbish or taken as trades. At Geocaching Australia geocaches the other geocache ends up travelling as well which it's not supposed to. So please find a location away from any existing geocaches (except of course other movable geocaches) to keep the Dinosaur Racer in play for as long as possible.

Prizes

• Dinosaur Racer with the most moves in total (provided the owner hasn't already won a prize)


• Dinosaur Racer with the most moves > 0 km* and < 1 km (provided the owner hasn't already won a prize)


• Dinosaur Racer with the most moves >= 1 km* (provided the owner hasn't already won a prize)


• Dinosaur Racer with the most moves >= 10 km* (provided the owner hasn't already won a prize)


• Dinosaur Racer with the most moves >= 100 km* (provided the owner hasn't already won a prize)


• Dinosaur Racer with the most moves >= 1,000 km* (provided the owner hasn't already won a prize)


• Dinosaur Racer that has the highest cumulative distance moved (provided the owner hasn't already won a prize)


• Dinosaur Racer that has the single highest distance moved (provided the owner hasn't already won a prize)


• Other winners will be announced as the countdown continues

* Distances will only apply once. i.e. If a Dinosaur Racer moves by 150 km it will count in the > 100 km category only and will not count in the > 10 km and > 1 km categories.

Participation

To everyone who contributes a Dinosaur Racer for the race, you have earned the gratitude of your fellow geocachers and you will also be rewarded with a virtual icon on your Geocacher Page.

Geocaching Australia thanks you for playing.