Entry form

The car magazine Top Gear is organising their first ever treasure hunt from KL – Penang.

Date: 8th & 9th November 2008

Fee: RM300/car

Entry form is available in the September issue of the magazine.

CoC – Time Out Solutions

Negeri Sembilan Media Club is organising this hunt from Seremban – Port Dickson on Saturday Oct. 18.

2 categories – Open and Media. Entry fee is RM100 per pax for Open and RM80/pax for Closed.

Prizes

Open Category
1st; RM5,000 cash
2nd; RM3,000 cash
3rd; RM2,000 cash
4th – 10th consolation of RM500 each team

Media Category
1st; RM3,000 cash
2nd; RM2,000 cash
3rd; RM1,000 cash
4th – 10th consolation of RM300 each team

CoC: Time Out Solutions

Entry form

The CoC for the recent NPC- Celcom hunt released this statement today.

Dear Mike,

First and foremost, I apologise for having caused the “spark” that has “fired” up your blog over the results in the Media Category of the NPC-Celcom Hunt.

The points for two treasures were inadvertently missed out when tallying the total points of the “Kereta Buruk” and “Sons of Sun” teams, a mistake which should not have happened. But then it did! I do not believe in giving excuses for what has happened. I also do not think that the NPC should be held responsible in any way. The announced winners of the hunt should not be blamed for anything as well. They did nothing wrong. I take full responsibility for the mistake.

With the 10 points added on, Kereta Buruk (with 99 points) are now the first prize winner of the Media Category and Sons of Sun (with 95 points) are the second prize winner. Both the teams have exercised patience and understanding in allowing me to arrive at a fair decision. I contacted both teams Thursday and have rewarded them for their victory.

Accordingly, the winners of the Media Category are as follows:

1. Kereta Buruk – 99 points
2. Sons of Sun – 95 points
3. Blur Squad – 94 points
4. MiB – 93 points
5. Close One Eye – 90 points
6. Stowaways – 85 points
7. Heritage Media – 75 points
8. OddBalls – 74 points

I hope you will post this statement on your blog to clear the air and bring the matter to rest. Thank you.

Warm regards,
Govind Nair
COC, NPC-Celcom Media Treasure Hunt 2008

A Jeyaram Menon’s hunt up in Penang.

North Malaysia Malayali Samajam is organising this hunt on Sunday 21st September. Entry fee is RM240/team

Prizes: 1st -RM1K, 2nd RM750, 3rd – RM500

Details & Entry form

These results were only announced at 11.30pm yesterday. It was a 9 hours hunt to Penang and both the top 2 teams only needed 5 hours plus to finish the hunt with perfect scores.

Open Category

1. 100 – KK Chai, Margaret Sha, Md Razif, Darmataksiah
2. 100 – Kok Seng, Dato’ Ramesh, Chong Foo Seong, Kong Yew
3. 98 – Anuar Jeffri, Lim Say Chye, CK Loh, Tommy Ng
4. 98 – Zahrol and team
5. 98 – Pava and team
6. 96 -Sin Yoong Leong, Cheok Wye Leong, Yeoh Keat Leong, Chye Jun Lee
7. 96 – Lip Yoke Cheong and team
8. 93 – Yeap Heng Boon, Ho Mun Yee, Lily Loh, Toh Wei Ming

Meanwhile, in the media category, I was told there were some controversies as a few teams had some points missing from their final scores.

Media Category.

1. 94 – Blur Squad
2. 93 – MIB
3. 90 – Ramlan Said and team
4. – Utusan
5. -
6. - Sons of Sun

It was a tough hunt clerked by Sam Rahman. The team comprising of Vincent Woo, VK Chong, Claire Chin won the hunt.

I was doing this hunt for a GLC yesterday, which was a nice change and experience.

It rained early in the morning when teams were coming in but luckily it stop just before flag-off. The rest of the morning was rather cloudy and cool, a nice day for hunting.

The answer presentation session was noisy, lots of cheering and heckling the coc! All in good fun.

I have not ask Raj, the Coc for this hunt but I won’t be surprise if all the 10 top placings or even more teams scored full points for the treasure hunt questions. I will post the questions here later and you can see why. All the 4 top placings dropped the same 2 questions for the morning session. At the tie-breaker session, the 4 teams had to list down the horoscope in the right order.

Total score :- 111 points

1. 109 – Joehari, Phillip Karuppiah, Chong CH, Raj Kumar
2. 109 – KK Chai, Margaret Sha, Vincent Woo
3. 109 – Md Razif, Dharmataksiah, Johan Salul, Hanna Hamizah
4. 109 – Yeap Heng Boon, Pava, Chandra, Michael Pang
5. 109 – Claire Chin, Julie Tan, Wong, Teck Koon.
6. 107 – Kok Seng, Dato’ Ramesh, Chong Foo Seong, Kong Yew.
7. 106 – Ruben Chellia and team
8. 106 – Steven Arockiaraj, Sumita and team
9. 105 – Sakthivel, K.Eeswaran, Venkateswaran and T.Buvanes
10. 105 – Haji Suhaimi, P.Theresa, Kauselya and A.Gowri

Update:

The organiser Cyberview Sdn Bhd has pulled the plug for this hunt due to the JKJR permit issues.  They have requested I take down all information regarding this hunt.

A total of 72 teams in the open category and 19 teams in the closed category took part in this charity hunt. RM13,200 was donated to Philea Home . Hunters r Us won the hunt with perfect score.

Meanwhile ckoh has already posted 5 very detailed analysis about the hunt questions. He has a few more coming up! Check it out here

Open Caterogy

1. 145 – KK Chai, Margaret Sha, VK Chong, Vincent Woo
2. 142 – Venkateswaran, Sakthivel, Buvanes, Eeswaran
3. 142 – Sam Rahman, Teh Boon Kai, Angie Teh, Hui Hui
4. 142 – Liew Kok Seng, Dato’ Ramesh, Teoh CT, Jamie Lim
5. 142 – Alex Hoh, Andre Teh, Mawar, Shahrin
6. 139 – Suhaimi, Theresal, Albert, Gowri
7. 139 – Pava, Shandra Dass, Bhunaneswari, Gnanamalar
8. 139 – Claire Chin, Julie Tan, Wong, Cornelius Koh
9. 138 – Jayaram,Sin Y Loong, David Tan, Chin Kar Peng
10. 136 – Adrian Wong, Teck Khoon, Weng Ngai, Mike Pang
11. 132 – Yeap Heng Boon, Peh, Mohan Campos, Florence
12. 130 – ?
13. 127 – Prasath Ramasamy, Lam Ken Wei, Douglas Ho, Tan Cheng Peng
14. 126 – Steven Arockiaraj, Sanjay, Rahmah, Sumita
15. 124 – Tan Eng Siang, Kong Siau Ching, Ong Kheng Heng, Diana Foong
16. 124 – Gary Guna, Md Razif, Dharmataksiah
17. 124 – ?
18. 121 – ?
19. 118 – Lim Say Chye, CK Loh, Tommy Ng, Chong
20. 115 – ?
21. 115 – Patrick Seniah & friends
22. 113 – ?
23. 112 – Lim Seng Fook & friends
24. 111 – ?
25. 111 – ?
26. 111 – Pirbarkaran , Kirubahkaran and Navamalar
27. 109 – ?
28. 108 – Anuar Jeffri, Tan Kok Cheeng, P. Anand, Chan Kah Sing
29. 107 – Mah Mun Choong, Gan Siew Luei, Lai Siew Kiw, Kwet Tze Lin
30. 105 – Alex Chua, Zakiah Zainal Abidin, Kevin Soon, Calvin Woodworth

If you are one of the winning team above and I don’t have your details, do email me your team member’s names

August is a crazy month where closed hunts are concerned. Companies are rushing to do their hunts before the Puasa month.

I had a great time doing a hunt for a group of mostly first timers over the last weekend. The hunt was also of a family day outing for them, so we had the whole gang; babies, toddlers, teenagers and staff who were eager to experience new things.
What I like most about doing hunts like this is the friendships that come out of it. Most of these hunts are about 25-30 teams, about 100 people. Small enough for me to go around and say hi to most of the participants. Listen to their feedback, their hilarious hunt stories, laugh over silly answers and share our life stories and experiences. Many of those I met at hunts like this have over the years become firm friends.

In a hunt like this, the emphasis is no longer on the treasure hunt questions alone but more on making sure that the whole event runs smoothly and safely. 80-90% of the time and effort goes into planning the logistic, safety, comfort of the participants etc. Mostly, it’s about taking the group for a holiday, a break from their work and making sure they have a fun and memorable holiday.

My next hunt assignment will also the inaugural hunt for the client. In between doing all these hunts in August, I’m so looking forward to participating in at least 2 hunts.

See you guys on the road.