TeamStrange 21st Anniversary World Tour
The following comprises the rules & requirements for this event. While we hope that every question you might have is answered here, please feel free to direct any questions to us here. Remember, the only silly question is the one YOU ask…err, don't ask. Whatever. Fasten your seatbelts, 'cause here we go.
THE BASICS (or "What the heck do we have to do…?")
The goal for the event is to spell out the phrase
"TeamStrange Airheads 21"
using photos of city limit signs and a Highway 21 sign in any one of three
challenging ways:
1) Traditional Grand Tour method
Submit photos using a town that starts with the letter T (example:
Tarantula, AZ), followed by a town that starts with the letter E
(example: Eagan, MN) etc., concluding with a photo of a highway
21
sign. Any towns from any states are acceptable. All riders completing this
method will be declared finishers and become eligible for appropriate finisher
awards and prize drawings.
Challenge # 2) The Dave McQueeney Award.
This will be given to all riders who visit a city in a different state for each
letter, and submit a State Highway sign photo from a state not used for any of
the above photos.
Note: For this challenge, a rider could expect to use Post
Office photos almost exclusively – it is rather uncommon to find many city limit
signs that also name the state. Riders who complete this challenge will receive a special
commemorative plaque recognizing their accomplishment. (We're also trying to get
Dave to agree to mow your lawn
– but he's holding out for more $$…)
Challenge # 3) A third method…
…of
completing the tour (with special awards and prizes) will be included in your
rider packet.
NUTS AND BOLTS
Your entry includes:
Special Rally Flag
Event T-shirt
AMA Grand Tour Pin
TeamStrange finishers pin
Special Plaques and awards for completing level 2 & 3 challenges.
All event finishers (of any level) will have their names included in drawing for door prizes.
Our main door prize for this event will be a BMW R65 motorcycle. The motorcycle will be fully serviced, with new paintwork, and some accessories installed.
Other door prizes will include Aerostich Gift Certificates, Dunlop Tires, Battery Tenders and more.
The October date and location for door prize drawings will be announced on the TeamStrange website and everyone will be invited to attend, yet participants need not be present to win.
Riders may enter event anytime before event end.
Riders entering prior to March 1st may specify their rider number – up to three digits.
After March 1st (or if another rider has already selected that number) no guarantee is made that specific number requests will be honored. Riders may also indicate a 2nd or 3rd choice rider number. Check the TeamStrange website for rider numbers issued so far.
Rider packets will be sent out beginning approximately March 10th.
Riders may begin collecting tour photos immediately upon receipt of rider packet.
TeamStrange 21st Anniversary World Tour Rules
1) To successfully complete the event, you must have a series of photos spelling out "TeamStrange Airheads 21" as described above. This will earn you the event finishers pin, and an entry into the drawing for various door prizes. Failure to fully complete the spelling of the phrase will be considered a DNF.
2) Photos must be of a city limit sign or a Post
Office as proof of visiting
that location. No other marker (example: library, police station, business,
etc.) is acceptable. For city limit signs, we'll accept most any variations of
the traditional signs you see at the city limits of a town. (Examples: Signs
reading Eagan. Welcome to Eagan. Welcome to Eagan, home of the Eagles. The
Eagan Stone Cutters welcome you, etc.)
3) Your motorcycle must be in all photos.
4) If two- (or three-) up, your passenger(s) must be in all photos.
5) Your motorcycle must have been ridden to the location. Photos of bikes in
trucks or on trailers will not be accepted (and will be posted on our website
for public derision).
6) Your rally flag must be in each photo.
7) Highway 21 signs may be of any state or county sign if completing the basic
tour. If competing for the Dave McQueeney Award, the photo must be of a STATE
HIGHWAY sign, with the state clearly identified (example: Ohio and Minnesota
State Highway signs show the shape of the state with the Highway # in the
center
– that's "clearly identified". Do NOT send us a photo of a sign with a
circle, square or other hieroglyphic and attempt to pass that off as an
"identifier"). If it's not readily apparent to our not-too-worldly judges, it's
not apparent
–
and you've been warned.
8) Every photo
submitted MUST be either A) a Polaroid instant photo, or B)
a commercially printed photo (e.g. Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc) made from your
film or digital camera source. Photos from home or office inkjet or
laser printers are not acceptable. Send in only the print, but be
prepared to produce on demand the electronic original of any photos made from a
digital source. If we can't read it, it doesn't count.
9) All photos must be received by October 10, 2005. Send photos to: TeamStrange
Tour, P.O. Box 4082, Hopkins, MN 55343. Not responsible for lost, late or
misdirected mail. Photos sent to other locations will not be accepted.
10) Decision of the judges is final. So there.
11) The official source of information for the TeamStrange Grand Tour
is www.teamstrange.com. Any
notification of event updates or modifications will be made there.
Prizes will be given away at the October drawing if winner is in attendance. Absent winners will be responsible for all shipping costs. Taxes, insurance, registration and licensing fees, if any, will be the responsibility of the prize winners. While every effort will be made to ensure a well tuned, good running motorcycle as the event Grand Prize, winner acknowledges that the prize is a used motorcycle, and that no warranty is either expressed or implied.