Regards,
Claire

Looking at your comments regarding this hunt, I’m itching to see the questions & answers. I’ll try to get hold of ‘em one way or another, and probably discuss some of them later (for the sake of learning, of course).

As a person who’s obsessed with precision, I’d echo your comment, viz:

“Making the questions easy for beginners is not the same as accepting wrong but popular answers. If CoC wants them to learn and grow, start them on the right footing, make sure they learn the basic correctly.”

And I can imagine that with an audience consisting of a fair number of master hunters—many of whom are CoCs themselves—I suppose the requirement for precision is even more significant. But I shall refrain from commenting further on the questions until I see them myself.

Just to share with your readers, Mike, on the psychological aspect from the hunters’ point of view. Whenever I clerk a hunt, I have the habit of inviting feedbacks from the hunters for possible ways of future improvements.

Apart from some interesting discussions about my questions, quite often I’ve noticed that a number of hunters wanted the recognition. It may be surprising to many new hunters, but some regular hunters are not only all out for the top prize. Rather, they want the recognition of being one of those teams within the top finishers. For this reason, I think Trailblazers should have allowed for more placings—say up to 10th place, if only for the announcement of the 10 best teams in the hunt, especially if there a big crowd. I think it doesn’t really matter if all they get are miserable KFC vouchers or hampers worth RM50 each. The satisfaction will still be there.

I believe a similar situation arose during a recent hunt where the top 3 teams received prizes (Beijing tickets?). And I was given to understand that they all got full score too. In fact, even the fourth team, which ended up with nothing, almost got full score. Had they too acheived full score, it would have been very, very painful to end up without even the recognition, I’m sure!

Just my 2 cents. Now back to work!… hahaha!

here’s a few improvements for future hunts -
1. Declare answers concisely and faster in pace. Treasure hunters are obviously impatient people!
2. Tabulate and publish standings on the spot. Treasure hunters are extremely kiasu , but always in the spirit of improving ourselves and that means knowing where we are in the crowd.
3. Venue and Food. I guess you know all about this but not entirely your fault as your hunt was more popular than you expected. Maybe a cap of participants once you guys have more sponsors to control the quality of experience?
4. Have more hunts in the city. In case you wonder, some except the really dedicated sometimes find it hard to spent the whole saturday tired out. So it is refreshing to have a quick hunt and still have the day to spare.

Good Luck in your future hunts. To a better next hunt – organizer and participants alike !

For future hunts, I will personally see to it that lunch is satisfactory and adequate and a conducive environment is laid out for all of us to enjoy the answer presentation. It is a commitment that I will undertake to ensure that the Hunters are well taken care of during and after the Hunt.

Raj (aka Captain Jack Swallow)
for and on behalf of The TrailBlazers.