TeamD Adventures

We’d heard that running in the USRRC could be a humbling experience.  But never mind that.  With the rally series in Portland, OR this year, we signed up for all 3 days. The competition would be tough!

The first day of the USRRC was a gimmick rally.   We didn’t really know what to expect.  Maybe it would be scavenger-style hunt?  We’d heard that some  gimmick rallies were trivia hunts where ralliers simply went to the library and researched the answers.  But Ghouls Gone Wild turned out to be a complex trap rally, but without the time and speed elements.  If you followed the course correctly, you’d answer the sign question correctly.  If didn’t, you’d wouldn’t.  The route carried us by landmarks associated with local rally community.

Tying into the Halloween, the rally instructions were accompanied by a pack of M&Ms. The variable MRDs included colors.  Yellow in the instructions meant, look at a yellow M&M.  Hey, it says ‘R AT T’.  Orange meant ‘L AT T’.

Enlightening moment:  If a question is a Y/N you have a 50/50 chance.  Never answer questions asking for counts! There is one correct answer and an infinite number of wrong answers.

It was difficult, but loads of fun.  Scores were tallied: 1 point for each right answer, 0 for unanswered questions, -1 for wrong answers. We tied for 12th overall, just 5 points behind the winners.

There are discussions already about doing a gimmick rally instead of a course rally next year in the Friday Nighter series.