Almost4X4 GPS Challenge - 2023
Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2023 10:21 am
Hello Almosters,
Gallopers Team (@PedroLeal , @alpied , myself and our navigator @Mafalda .
Arrived before midnight to the Friday camp and enjoyed the funny stories by the fire but it was not too long before i had to go get some sleep for the long day.
Arrived to the meeting point in the morning and briefing started at 7:30am by @Solmaz and @alshamsi_m then at 8am the game started and each team got 30 mins to upload the coordinates to their GPS devices(which was barely enough for our team). Our strategy was to visit the points on the camp side of the gatch first following a certain line but it was not too long to figure out the some teams share the same starting strategy.we fought for the first 2-3 markers and I think this first hour of the game is were we saw the most of other teams. After the first hour we met a team here or there but the area was so big that sometimes we got more than an hour with no one in sight.
The excitement in the first few hours was volatile for me as we missed many point as the first visitors. However with our first squishy toy we were back full of excitement but by then the sun was the biggest challenge as we could barely figure out the terrain and see our GPS devices! That stayed for a good 2 hours. We had our first 10 minute break around one of the markers where we met @osman @galindakis and @Enrique if i am not mistaking then we carried on to finish the section on the camp side and decided to cross the gatch road and explore the other side. We fell into a technical area as soon as we went to the other side and took some time to get passed it then lost some more time trying to find the famous marker that was not on the ground (Thanks to @Rashidjass ) and had a second break after that. We continued to drive passing by 3-4 more markers without meeting any other teams and collected our second squishy toy at 3 :06 from point number 6 at the far end of the game.
We decided to head to the finish line in a certain line were 2-3 more point would fall. We struggled at the last point but we could see the camp so we knew it would take 2-3 minutes to reach. Failed to fin the last point and headed back to the camp around 3:50pm.
We managed to get second place after all, congrats to the team!!
Overall the game is great, We got to experience all of our skills from driving to recovering and in our team case intermediately leading the convoy as well. I am really looking forward for the GPS challenge sniper editions .
Huge thanks to @Solmaz for organizing such a great event, and to all the marshals and founder for the support.
Gallopers Team (@PedroLeal , @alpied , myself and our navigator @Mafalda .
Arrived before midnight to the Friday camp and enjoyed the funny stories by the fire but it was not too long before i had to go get some sleep for the long day.
Arrived to the meeting point in the morning and briefing started at 7:30am by @Solmaz and @alshamsi_m then at 8am the game started and each team got 30 mins to upload the coordinates to their GPS devices(which was barely enough for our team). Our strategy was to visit the points on the camp side of the gatch first following a certain line but it was not too long to figure out the some teams share the same starting strategy.we fought for the first 2-3 markers and I think this first hour of the game is were we saw the most of other teams. After the first hour we met a team here or there but the area was so big that sometimes we got more than an hour with no one in sight.
The excitement in the first few hours was volatile for me as we missed many point as the first visitors. However with our first squishy toy we were back full of excitement but by then the sun was the biggest challenge as we could barely figure out the terrain and see our GPS devices! That stayed for a good 2 hours. We had our first 10 minute break around one of the markers where we met @osman @galindakis and @Enrique if i am not mistaking then we carried on to finish the section on the camp side and decided to cross the gatch road and explore the other side. We fell into a technical area as soon as we went to the other side and took some time to get passed it then lost some more time trying to find the famous marker that was not on the ground (Thanks to @Rashidjass ) and had a second break after that. We continued to drive passing by 3-4 more markers without meeting any other teams and collected our second squishy toy at 3 :06 from point number 6 at the far end of the game.
We decided to head to the finish line in a certain line were 2-3 more point would fall. We struggled at the last point but we could see the camp so we knew it would take 2-3 minutes to reach. Failed to fin the last point and headed back to the camp around 3:50pm.
We managed to get second place after all, congrats to the team!!
Overall the game is great, We got to experience all of our skills from driving to recovering and in our team case intermediately leading the convoy as well. I am really looking forward for the GPS challenge sniper editions .
Huge thanks to @Solmaz for organizing such a great event, and to all the marshals and founder for the support.