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Treasure hunt details

Date : Sunday 19th April.

Route: Around Klang

Entry fee: RM90/hunter

CoC: Take A Break

Get the entry form right here.

Blogging live at the answer presentations.

Full points: 125

1. 98 – Gary Gunasegar, Liew Kok Seng, Chong Foo Seong, Lim Kong Yew
2. 94 – KK Chai, Margaret Sha, Chong Voon Kiat, Claire Chin
3. 92 – Adrian Wong, Michael Pang, Toh Weng Ngai, Goh Teck Koon
4. 81 – Yeap Heng Boon, Pava, Faud, Mun Yee
5. 80 – Rajj Melambaran, ShirleyHoe, Lim Say Chye, Loh Chee Kwan
6. 76 – Lim Kim Meng, Richard Tan, Viki Lim, Jeffery Wong

Update: 11.53pm

Just got back from a boy band concert. Our teeny boppers can really scream non stop for over 3 hours! My ears are ringing right now.

Today’s hunt. I predicted that there would be some sort of games/challenges for this hunt and true enough today we had to identify 10 leaves at the end of the hunt. And because teams were more or less equal on route questions, this little task has had an impact on the final placings you see above.  I don’t know how much impact because the breakdowns were not provided. Maybe just one position up or down at most for a few teams. Anyhow, at least the task were not luck base this time around.

Overall it was a good hunt.  A few interesting questions and treasures.  Briefing, flag-off and answer presentation were all on time. The only thing is, it was really a poor choice of route and questions sectors. The roads were congested this morning and I think we spend no less than 60minutes in total getting stucked in traffic.

This hunt had the potential to be a huge hunt but it didn’t. Only 11 teams hunted today.  With the backing of various government agencies and the organiser being a grouping of NGOs, one would thought that they would not have problem getting the numbers. If only each of the NGOs in the “gabungan” send 5 teams, they would have easily gotten 30/40 teams. So what happened here? I wonder how much they collected for the Gaza cause?

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The Hunt will be based on the Heritage sites of Georgetown and surrounding areas. A map will be given indicating all relevant roads that lead to these sites. Hunters will have to crack the clues identifying the roads. Then the remaining clues are related to the sites and site features.

CoC: Jayaram Menon

Your entry fees of RM400 per team will go directly to running the hospice.

Prizes: RM10,000 in kind  for the 1st 6 placings. The remaining prizes will be worth RM5,000.

The closing date on 11th April.

Entry Form

This has been sitting in my in-box for a while.

Pira a fairly new hunter has been looking for members from within his circle of friends but no one seems to be interested. At last year’s theSun Hunt, in a team of only 2members, they achieved a commendable 90th position out of over 200 participating teams.

“ I want to actually form a team with people with some experience but not veterans to build a strong team. I am looking for two team members who are committed to join my team with the goal of doing well in the Sun Motor hunt.

“That person must be committed with us for at least one year. He/She must share the same goals, passion and commitment. My name is Pira and my contact is 012-321 2841″

There are a few successful teams out there today which started just like this. So if you are the kind of hunter, Pira is looking for, get in touch with him immediately and start that great journey to the top.

Full score – 130 points

1. 129 – Johan Salul, Dr. Ben, Lily Loh, Teoh Cheow Teong
2. 128 – Alexander Hoh, Andre Teh, Viki Lim, Lim Kim Meng
3. 128 – KK Chai, Margaret Sha, Chong Voon Kiat
4. 125 – Dato’ Ramesh Rajaratnam. Liew Kok Seng, Chong Foo Seong, Lim Kong Yew
5. 122 – Wong Chiang Chuen, Julie Tan, Claire Chin, Goh Teck Koon
6. 119 – RajjMelambaran, Shirley Hoe, Lim Say Chye, Hj Suhaimi
7. 116 -Tan Kok Cheeng, Anuar Jeffri, Chan Kar Sing, Sadique Lufi
8. 114 – Steven Arockiaraj, Sanjay Abdullah, Rahmah Othman, Sumita Devadas
9. 112 – Ahmad Zahrol, Mazri Muda, Mohd Asri , Nadia
10. 111 – Daniel Aliff Chan, Aravindan, Aznita, Sashi Nair
11. 108 – Lim Seng Fook, Sim Pen Nee, Mok
12. 103 – Ahmad Fadzil and team
13. 102 – Capt Zuklifi Zain & team
14. 102 – Team suka suka
15. 101 – Pava, Yeap Heng Boon, Ho Mun Yee, Mohan Campos
16. 100 – Fadil, Zulkifli & team
17.  99 – Remy & team
18. 98 – Venka, Eeswaran, Buvanes, Simon
19. 97 – Yusof Mohammad and team
20. 96 – Jalias Ali & team

The whole of yesterday evening and this morning, this site was not accessible. Traffic to this site has more than doubled in recent months and yesterday it finally exceeded the monthly data transfers allowed under my current package. As a temporary measure I’ve since purchased additional bandwidth and will upgrade the whole hosting package soon.

The Lions Club of Petaling Jaya City is organising this hunt on Sat 16th May 2009.  It’s a no frills, just thrills day hunt to Malacca. CoC – Michael Pang.

Details soon.

There are quite a few hunts coming up within these 2 months.

The immediate one is this weekend’s Treasure Hunt Setahun Kerajaan Baharu Negeri Selangor. Closing date is in 2 days. CoC : Sam Rahman.  Entry Form

Also, if you want a really spicy cryptic online hunt, the 2nd in the series at webmazers  is on, starting today.

Later at end of this month, the Hunt for Gaza on Saturday 28th. CoC : Time Out Solutions

Fee: RM250/car

Prizes: 1st-RM1K, 2nd – RM700, 3rd-RM500

No other details are provided,  gut feeling tells me that this won’t be a straight hunt.

Entry Form

Rules & Regulations

Quick results now and perhaps a detailed analysis later. Also here are the Q&A (updated)

Total points -100

1. 7o – Alexander Hoh, Andre Teh, Razif Ahmad, Darmataksiah Abai
2. 61 – KK Chai , Chin Kar Ping, Sin Yoong Leong, Margaret Sha
3. 57 – Liew Kok Seng, Dato Ramesh, Chong Foo Seong, Lim Kong Yew
4. 56 – Yeap Heng Boon, Pavanathan, CT Teoh, Ho King Mun
5. 55 – Johan Salul, Lily Loh, Dr Ben Lau, Loh Sie Fun
6. 53 – Wong Chian Chuen, Clare Chin, Goh Teck Koon, Julie Tan
7. 53 – Lee Kong Hor, Tan Poh Chye, Wong Pek Chen, Kevin Lee
8. 52 – Susan Ong, Adrian Wong, Lim Soo Khian, Catherine Ng
9. 51 – Anwar Jefrey bin Abdullah, Tan Kok Cheeng, Chan Kah Sing, Sadique Lufi bin Lokman
10. 47 – Rajj Melambaran, Shirley Hoe, Siva, Lim Chuan Leng
11. 46 – Tan Eng Siang, Kong Siau Ching, Wong Sze Lynn, Jasmine Hoi
12. 45 – Venkateswaran. N. Eeswaran K.,  Buvanes.T, Simon M
13. 43 – Lim Kim Meng, Viki Lim, Richard Tan, Jeffery Wong
14. 42 – Suhaimi, Lim Say Chye, CK Loh, Tommy Ng
15. 40 – Steven, Sanjay, Rahmah, Sumita

The winning team comprising of Alexander , Darmataksiah Abai ,Razif, and Andre Teh (not in pic) with Mr. Ling the Sale Manager of MH Prestige Auto.

Click to enlarge the graph above

Thank you for all your entries. A total of 50 teams registered. 

I have emailed the confirmation of your entry and important updates to all participants. If you (or at least one team member) have not received the email, please contact me immediately.

I will see you this Sunday, 15th March 2009.

REMINDER: CLOSING DATE IS THIS FRIDAY, 6th MARCH

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Notice : This is a “sticky” post and will remain at the top of the page until 6th March.  Newer posts are published underneath this post.

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Update: The ONLINE ENTRY FORM is now available.

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The Power of Dreams Treasure Hunt is organised by MH Prestige Auto Sdn Bhd a Honda cars dealer based in Kepong. Map to start/end venue

This Klang Valley “no frills, 100%  hunt ,  will be held on  Sunday 15 March 2009.  Entry fee is RM100/team  for Honda car and RM150/team for non-Honda car.

ENTRY FORM (print & fax)

CoC :  Michael Pang

It’s a 5 hours hunt with a distance of about 25km only.  Other details:-

• Final briefing : 7.30am
• Flag-off : 8.00am
• Mid-point control closes at 10.30am for PART A submission
• Duration 5 hours. No extra penalty time.
• Hunt finishes at 1.00pm
• Answers and prize presentations at 2.30pm
• Questions.

• 35 route questions x 2 points each. Part A – 15Qs  Part B – 20Qs
• 5 treasures x 5 points each
• 5 MH Prestige and Honda Qs x 1point. (10 minutes – start at 1.00pm)
• Tie breaker 1. Treasure Qs, 2. Route Qs, 3. Part A time

• Collect t-shirts, car stickers, etc from MH Prestige Auto from Wednesday 11th – Friday 13th March from 10am – 7pm.
  

Prizes:-

1st – V-Kool Elite Film Tinting worth RM2,200 and one unit Garmin Nuvi 310/360 GPS Navigator worth RM1,800

2nd – One unit Garmin Nuvi 310/360 GPS Navigator worth RM1,800

3rd – 4 unit DVD players.

Prizes up to 15th position. I’ll update the list of other prizes as and when I have them from the organiser.

First the results. Total points – 120

1. 78 – Alexander Hoh, Andre Teh, Rosemawarni, Sharin Zainuddin
2. 66 – Razif Ahmad, Darmataksiah Abai, Sam Rahman
3. 61 – Wong Chiang Chuen, Claire Chin, Goh Teck Koon, Julie Tan
4. 60 -Tan Eng Siang, Kong Siau Ching, Ong Kheng Heng, Ong Sze Lynn
5. 58 – Tan Chee Chiew, Lau Kuan Cheng, Jacky Wong, Kok Pooi Hoe
6. 56 – Adrain Wong,Toh Weng Ngai, Lim Soo Khian,Michael Pang
7. 53 – Chin Kar Peng, Dr. Ho Seng Hooi, Liong Chian Min, Jayaram Menon
8. 52 – Anwar Jeffry, Tan Kok Cheeng, Cornelius Koh, Chan Kah Sing
9. 52 – Dominic Roche, Carol Roche, Jagdev Singh, Catherine Ng
10. 51 – Johan Salul, Teoh Cheow Teong, Dr. Ben Lau, Lily Loh
11. 48 – Selina Yong, Toh Wei Ming, Ho Mun Yee
12. 48 – Haji Suhaimi, Lim Say Chye, Loh Chee Kwan, Tommy Ng
13. 43 – Viki Lim, Lim Kim Meng, Richard Tan, Jeffrey Wong
14. 43 – Ong Hoong Chun, Song Wee Kiat, Peh Kok Hun, Peter Tan
15. 42 – Ricky Koo, Johnny Lim, Fuad Dahalan

It was a good hunt, pretty much what was expected from team like HrU. Kudos and thank you for all the effort in putting together the hunt with no other incentive other than the love and passion for the sport. The questions were of a very high standard and I think the regulars really appreciate and applaud the few ingenious ones. Of course true to Hunters r Us, (HrU) there were also those 5 to 6 levels question which was never meant to be solve in the first place.

While overall it was good, looking at the results I’m not sure if they have achieve the various lofty goals that they set out to achieved. One of it was to encourage new hunters to fall in love with the sports.  For that they came out and said that they have tuned the hunt to suit all levels. Yet generally everyone including the very best hunters agreed that it was a super tough hunt. And the results show. Only 3 teams out of the total 30 teams barely achieved more than 50% of the total points. Mid way during the hunt,  my team keep asking “where are the easy questions? “where are the easy questions”.  A veteran hunter said that this type of hunt is only suitable to the annual “cny hunt”  referring to the by invitation only, “no holds barred” hunt for regulars during chinese new year.  And yet another regular hunter hit the nail on the head when he said that “this hunt may just be the final nail in the coffin for newer hunters”

Next, timing. Again we were assured that the 4.5hours is 30 minutes more than what it should be. The reality is only 3 grand slammer teams came in on time (my team was 1 of the 3) at the cost of dropping all 6 questions towards the end. Ok, maybe we are all very bad at managing our time.

After submitting our papers, we thought we will try and see if we were given the controversial one hour extra, would it have make any difference? So we went out again and we only manage to get one additional answer!

These are the 2 areas which I thought the CoCs have misjudged. Being a CoC myself,  I can understand how easy it is to misjudge the level of difficulty and the time needed. CoC starts crafting their questions from the answers and from that point of view all answers seem easy and solvable.

Now, every CoC is free to pitch their hunts in what ever way they like.  They don’t have to follow a set formula.  So having said all the above I don’t mean to say that HrU is wrong. I’m merely reviewing the 2 areas vis-a vis to their publically stated goals for this particular hunt.  If moving forward HrU chooses to be known as a CoC with tough questions and tight timing, so be it. Nothing’s wrong with that.

One area of improvement that I think HrU can look into is the presentation of answers. I’m not sure why or  if they even realise that they were rushing through with the explanations.  There were a few, especially the tougher ones which we simply can’t follow.  If this is to be where the newer hunters learn than I think  the steps leading to the answers  should be very slowly and clearly explained with pauses long enough in case some hunters have questions. But like I said maybe there was a reason for it, like they have booked the room up to certain hour only.

This morning my team met up as early as 6.30am and soon many more hunters joined us at the mamak shop. The topic of the morning and jokes were centered on the one hour extra time.  I love what one experienced hunter whose team is entitle to the extra one hour said ” I feel offended to be given the extra one hour”

All in all, we must congratulate HrU for the courage to try new things like the new recognition system, the controversial  handicaps etc. Like all things new, there will be challenges. The push for changes were too drastic. It will be awhile before hunters warm up to them and today’s hunt is a good start in that direction.