24-Hour Leaderboard Unofficial Results

Looks like we've got all the data in for the 24-Hour teams. Will circle back around with Toby to confirm, but looks like the closest competition was between 2nd place 51: Appalachian AR and 3rd place tie 77:Scarred for Life and 53:Team ROC Gear/4LPH4 1337, the latter two arriving at the finish line 30 minutes behind the former. With 2 hours remaining on the race clock, another CP would have boosted either of the latter 2 teams to 2nd place.

Team 55 Has Withdrawn

After moving to incomplete status earlier in the day due to Michael Beacham's dehydration, Sport Factory has decided to throw in the towel at CP15/TA2 (Bike Drop).

Awaiting Checkpoint Zero's Emerger

Checkpoint Zero is slated to emerge from the trek to CP15/TA any moment now. They've been in there for 3:45 now. It is a 7 mile trail hike, and they are currently averaging less than 2 miles an hour. All of the field is currently on this section, and apparently the trails will turn you around in there, because the 6- and 12-hour teams didn't do so hot either--and that was during the daytime!

Cutoffs have changed for a few teams.

For all but 3 of the 24 hour teams, the finish cutoff is 7:55am on Sunday.

But for the following teams, due to missing the canoe cutoff, their finish cutoff has slid back according to their time penalty:

• 60: Checkpoint Zero - 7:46am
• 51: Appalachian AR - 7:46am
• 56: Mims the Word - 7:13am

Mims the Word actually landed a 1:12 penalty after getting out of the canoe drop at 4:37pm. However, they earned a 30 minute credit by assisting Team ROC Gear/4LPH4 1337 unravel their canoe from a big sharp rock in the river.

6-Hour and 12-Hour Boards Finalized

At least, Toby and I synced up and the 6- and 12-Hour boards should now be accurate. A gentle note about RDBoard leaderboard discrepancy with the official rankings:

...turn off your listening if you don't care about mundane technical details...

I thought it'd be a good idea to add CTA1 and CTA2 to the leaderboard to show the flow of the course a bit, since those are places most of the teams will be going through, we could capture times there, etc. But they aren't really CPs. And for that matter, neither are the start and finish on the leaderboard, not in reality, anyway. But RDBoard for the Goldrush is configured to rank based status, CP count, and time. In this case, it's counting the Start, CTA1, CTA2, and Finish as CPs. So the counts for RDBoard and the counts from the passports will differ by 1-4, depending on the team.

I'll fix this in the future so RDs can put waypoints/check stations that don't actually have any bearings on rank. There is a workaround currently in RDBoard (use the weighted CP ranking and weight S, CTA1, CTA2, and F as 0 points each), but should be a clean way to do it as well.

Scarred For Life, But Not Dead

Scarred for Life is in lock-step with Team ROC Gear/4LPh4 1337, proving that they are not out of this race just yet.

24-Hour Leaderboard Tells Nothing

The keeping up to date with the 24 hour crowd has proved a challenge. The format of the race has allowed for some "interesting" tactics, leading to less visibility in teams' progress. A couple of problems thusfar:

1. some teams decided to take canoes from canoe drop down before doing orienteering course, then putting in and going. Others did the entirety of the Orienteering course, then got the canoes. For the teams that took them down early, what CPs they got at the O-course after CP1 and CP2 was not known by race management. For the teams that got the canoes at the end, what they did and didn't get wasn't recorded. So, I fell back to CTA as the first audit point to get leaderboard information (what CPs teams have gotten or skipped).

2. Some teams chose to take-out the canoes, but not portage them into CTA. Instead, they continued on to the trekking portion directly. While legal, this means these teams have gone under the RDBoard radar once again. Who knows how many CPs they have?

What we do know:

1. CP0 is in the lead, having cleared the course thusfar, but is carrying an 8 minute penalty.

2. Appalachian AR seemed to be in their vicinity at the orienteering course (at least, they left it together--thus the 8 minute penalty they are carrying as well).

3. Team ROC Gear/4LPH4 1337 cleared the orienteering course, which means they probably have cleared the course so far.

4. Sport Factory are a man down, and so are unofficial, and ImONPoint/Odyssey AR are done.

5. Though the seemed to have sweated it out on the o-course, Mims the Word now wears the burden of a 1:08 penalty, and were the last to leave the o-course by a large margin.

6. Enthost seemed to be moving along. BOTR, Scarred for Life, who knows?

So I'm thinking these are the top 3 are:

1. Checkpoint Zero

2. & 3. Appalachian AR and Team ROC Gear/4LPH4 1337

If Appalachian AR did NOT clear the o-course, then Team ROC Gear/4LPH4 1337 is ahead. However, Team ROC Gear/4LPH4 1337's boat issues slowed their paddle down significantly, so Appalachian AR may have gained enough time on them to get allow for them to get more CPs down the road.