Update: They have made some changes to the team requirements. Here’s the latest Entry Form
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This Experimental hunt format is designed to encourage the development of new hunters.
Teams must be in the following combination
1. 2 to 4 novices
2. 2 to 3 novices + 1 Master/ Regular – Top 15 teams in the Sun Hunt Open category
3. Max of 2 novices + max of 2 regulars
Date : Sunday 7th February 2010
Entry fee: RM150/team
The debutant CoC: Kheirul Nazib & Hagi Suhaimi
Hours after the people behind this hunt released the info via email on Monday evening, a novice team emailed me basically saying that this experiment (novices + master) is indeed a good thing. They believe this will be a good learning opportunity.
So if you are new to hunting, download the ENTRY FORM now. The closing date is 1st Feb. And yes, get in touch with one of the Masters, most would be glad to meet new friends with common interest.
Thanks Mike. For info, we may do some amendment on the “term & conditions”. We understand the difficulty to form 1 Master + 3 Novice team combination. Maybe 2 + 2 is a more ’suitable’. Comment from Master & Regular hunters are most welcome. Please wait for more update soon…
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A note from hagi on the Jimat Hunt 01 – The Experiment
We have now 15 entries (including 4 teams with masters) and more are expected to come. We have almost finalized the route, questions and treasures – 35 questions and 6 treasures in all. The questions are a mix of easy and moderate with just a sprinkling of the hard ones.
There will be no theme for the hunt. However, you must think dwi-bahasa (english-malay) to answer the questions. And you must also know simple arabic (not just alif, ba, ta but also simple terms such as “ragol” for man, “walad” for boy, etc). You must also know a slice of indian, hindi, french and mandarin languages.
As the cocs comprise two different people (maybe with different thinking and style), be prepared to tackle the different mode of questioning and preferences.
Lastly, we hope more masters to join the hunt – now that a master team can comprise 2 masters + 2 novices. With more masters, we hope more novices can learn from them.
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New CoCs should stick to tried and tested Question format/formula in their first few hunts. Set good, technically sound questions. Once established, they can innovate. Crawl. Walk. Run. One must remember that the regulars will shy away if their first time is less that satisfactory. It will be a long and uphill battle to get them back.
Besides, I thought this hunt is to encourage new hunters? Surely the need to know all those languages will only make the questions one level tougher.
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ckoh Reply:
January 26th, 2010 at 12:24 pm
I am known as a mischievous CoC who enjoys introducing “new twists” in my hunts. But I agree with Mike’s comment above.
Innovations are of course very exciting—for the CoCs and hunters alike. Generally speaking, I would welcome new twists in hunt riddles. But ever so often, CoCs are not consistent in their parameters. For example, we have seen how “double jeopardy” was allowed in some questions, but not in others within the same hunt. We have also seen how answers were supposed to be explained, yet the CoC totally missed the given explanations by some teams.
Expanding the scope to include Arabic, Hindi, French, Mandarin etc may be seen as “innovative” and “exciting” by some people. But I wouldn’t be surprised if the CoCs are caught with their pants down when some hunters come up with perfectly fitting answers arising from anagramming, say, a Hindi word via indirect fodder, of which the CoCs did not think of, because they simply did not know that Hindi word.
My view is that if the CoCs would like to include possible French, Mandarin, Hindi etc in their riddles, they better be sure that they are very well-versed in those languages. They can’t expect the hunters to know which are the only few words that the CoCs know of those respective languages. The hunters can’t possibly guess, for example, which Hindi words are included, and which are not.
So may I suggest that the CoCs are very careful to prepare hot and spicy dishes which they themselves can handle. Otherwise most may find the fare not very palatable.
My 2 cents worth.
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Hie, I’m gonna be participating in this as a novice but till today I haven’t received any info on venue and time of final briefing and flag off from the organisers? Appreciate if you can email me and the driver asap or better still call us.
TQ.
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