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Team Strange 30th
Anniversary Grand Tour
March 1 through October 31, 2014
(GT #1 of 4 Team Strange Memory
Lane GTs.
Originally run by Team Strange Airheads for our 21st
Anniversary)
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
teamstrange@live.com.
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
"Team Strange Airheads 30" using photos of city limit signs and a
Highway 30 sign in any one of three challenging ways:
Challenge #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 30 sign.
Any towns from any states are acceptable. All riders completing this
method will be declared finishers, receive a Team Strange 30th
Anniverary Pin and become eligible for Team Strange Memory Lane prize
pool #1 which is a $250 gift certificate.
Challenge # 2) The Eddie James 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 Team Strange 30th Anniversary
Pin and be entered into Team Strange Memory Lane prize pool #1 (see
above) and Team Strange Memory Lane prize pool #2, which is a $500 gift
certificate, and into the Team Strange prize Pool #3, which is a $750
Gift Certificate.
(We are also trying to get the ghost of Eddie James
III to come and haunt your garage – but he is holding out for more $$…)
Challenge # 3) The Efficiency Award
This will be given to the rider who completes this event using the
fewest number of town names to spell Team Strange. How do you do that?
Well, you still spell out "Team Strange Airheads 30" but you use city
names that have more than one letter, in the correct order, to spell
"Team Strange Airheads 30." (The 30 must be from a state or
county HWY/Road sign) So for example, if your first stop is Tea,
South Dakota, you have already spelled the first three letter of the
challenge. The rider (or two up riders) who complete this challenge in the fewest number
of stops will receive an entry into the Team Strange Memory Lane Prize
pool #3, which is a $750 gift certificate and bragging rights. If there
is a tie, the winner will be the rider who used the fewest number of
states. If there is still a tie, the winner will be the one who rode the
fewest miles between stops as determined by the judges.
Please note that if
you try to win the efficiency award and fail, you will not be considered
a finisher, nor will you be in any prize pools unless you also qualified
for either the "Traditional" or "Eddie James" finishing level shown
above.
NUTS AND BOLTS
Entry fee is $50.
($35 if you already signed up for another $50 Memory Lane GT)
You may use more than one bike,
including rentals and loaners.
If you enter with a passenger, s/he
must appear in at least half of your photos.
We reserve the right to verify all
submissions by whatever means we deem necessary.
Your entry
includes: Rally Flag, and Special 30th Anniversary Team Strange T-shirt
for $50 entries. Discounted entries do not include a
t-shirt.
All four Team Strange Memory Lane
GTs use the exact same GT Flag. Your number and flag for one GT is your
number and flag for all GTs.
All event finishers will receive a
Special 30th Anniversary Team Strange Pin and will have their names
included in the appropriate Team Strange Memory Lane Prize pool.
Rider packets will be
mailed initially around February 15, and thereafter whenever riders sign
up.
Team Strange 30th Anniversary Grand Tour
Rules
1) To complete the event, you must have a series of
photos spelling out "Team Strange Airheads 30" as described above. This
will earn you the event finishers pin, and entry into the Team Strange
Memory Lane Prize pool #1 which is a $250 gift certificate. Failure
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 will
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, rally flag and appropriate sign
must be in all photos.
4) If two up, your passenger(s) must be in
at least half of your 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) Highway 30 signs may be of any state or county sign if completing
the basic tour. If competing for the Eddie James 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 is not readily
apparent to our not-too-worldly judges, it is not apparent – and you
have been warned.
7) Every photo submitted must be in a digital
format and submitted via e-mail, or by using an online photo-sharing
tool such as Photo Bucket. No Polaroid, tin etching, printed photo, or
other archaic mechanism for sharing an image should appear in our
mailboxes. That stuff may have flown for our 21st Anniversary but you
have to live in the now man!! Please ensure you photo is clear. If we
cannot read it, it does not count.
8) All photos must be received
by November 1, 2014. Send photos or the link to your photos to
teamstrange@live.com
9) Decision of the judges is final. So
there.
10) The official source of information for the Team
Strange Grand Tour is www.teamstrange.com. Any notification of event
updates or modifications will be made there.
11) Questions? Ask
teamstrange@live.com.
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