The Winners!

  • 1. EMcache Racer: Nosey Pup, owned by niknrich, 26086.3 miles travelled, held by 7 cachers, visited 19 caches, 8 UK counties & 3 overseas countries
  • 2. SPANK, the Monkey, owned by ITCHYthirdEYE, 5260.9 miles travelled, held by 14 cachers, visited 23 caches, 9 UK counties & 1 overseas country
  • 3. Piston head Pete (& co-pilot Dave), owned by UK89Camaro, 2673.6 miles travelled, held by 13 cachers, visited 18 caches, 6 UK counties & 2 overseas countries

Thursday 21 October 2010

Final Update!

The 2009 / 2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race came to crescendo of excitement (okay, slight exageration...) at EMcache's 2nd Birthday Bash! as everyone wondered if a race TB would arrive at the last second to snatch one of the podium positions. As it turned out, only three of the race entries made it to the finishing event, but considering the number of TBs and Geocoins that are stolen these days, it was a good finishing percentage.


The delighted winners were;


1st; niknrich's EMcache Racer: Nosey Pup. Nik chose an Original Can of Beans Geocoin as winner's prize.

2nd; ITCHYthirdEYE's SPANK, the Monkey (formerly Itchys' Crown Jewels). Geohunter-X chose a Discover Your World geocoin on Itchy's behalf.

3rd; uk89camaro - Emcache Racer - Piston head Pete and co-pilot Dave, who is 'armless. Uk89camaro received a Help For Heroes geocoin as his prize.

A consolation prize of a Racer Travel Tag was awarded to lgxkls for John's stegasaurus, which (as a triceratops)
was muggled almost immediately and it's replacement only covered 376.2 miles and never left the UK, or, in fact, the Southern half of England!


Here's a final UK counties visited map:



The final five counties added are Cheshire, Gwynedd, Northumberland, Pembrokeshire and West Sussex.

These five additional counties, when added to Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Ceredigion, Clwyd, Cornwall, Derbyshire, Dorset, East Sussex, Essex, Greater London, Greater Manchester, Gwent, Hampshire, NHereford & Worcestershire, Hertfordshire, The Highland Region, The Isle of Wight, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, Shropshire, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Strathclyde Region, Surrey, Tyne & Wear, Warwickshire, West Yorkshire and Wiltshire, make a total of 41 UK counties visited. Pretty good going, I would say.

So, that's all folks until the 2nd EmCache TB Race, whenever that may be. In the meantime, check out The Great Travel Bug Knockout for all your TB racing needs!

Monday 18 October 2010

Update! John's stegasaurus moves up 1 place

With only 32 hours or so to go, lgxkls' John's stegasaurus Travel Bug has been placed into this Hampshire cache, adding 105.6 miles to it's race distance, sufficient to move it into 18th place overall, ahead of the muggled Katie 2000's Needles TB.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Sunday 17 October 2010

Update! Rabbit retrieved by Toad

RascalGaskells' Cachehopper Travel Bug has been picked-up by South-Eastern cacher Good Toad and JohnnyBGoode's You want fries with that? TB has been placed into this New Hampshire cache, adding 16.2 miles to it's distance travelled.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Geohunter-X helps SPANK, the Monkey

EmCache member, and fellow race entrant, Geohunter-X has grabbed ITCHYthirdEYE's Travel Bug (luckily for Itchy, his original hitchhiker was removed or geohunter-x would be grabbing his Jewels!) and dipped him here, here, here, here, here and here, before finally placing SPANK into the finishing event cache, adding 55 miles and making him the 3rd entry home in the 2009 / 2010 EmCache TB Race.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Friday 15 October 2010

Will LOUIS' VROOM VROOM make it overseas after all?

Cacher Pieman has placed Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! TB into this cache, adding 12.3 miles to it's distance travelled.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Thursday 14 October 2010

Do we have The Winner in the clubhouse?

Niknrich have placed their Nosey Pup Travel Bug into The 2009 /2010 EmCache TB Race finish Event, adding a final 35 miles to Nosey's race distance.

RascalGaskells' Cachehopper TB has been placed into this Halloweenesque multi-cache in Kent, adding 11.4 miles to it's distance travelled.

Finally, oceanblue07970's Pat's Special Delivery TB has been collected from the Spanish Mega by Finnish cachers OMO cachers.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Monday 11 October 2010

Just over a week to go!

With barely a week to go in the 2009 / 2010 EmCache TB Race, some moves are still being made;

Geohunter-X's Horsey Neigh Neigh TB has been retrieved by American cacher diefenbaker.

lgxkls' Karon's Promise TB has been placed into this Pembrokeshire cache, adding 95.3 miles to it's distance travelled.

Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug TB was placed into this German cache, adding 25.5 miles to it's race distance, and then was immediately retrieved by cacher blubalu.

And finally, The Great Galaxy Seekers' Big Ben Geocoin has reappeared, cacher jayteecee taking more than 4 months to move it 10.7 miles to this Kent cache.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Final Race Positions

  • 1. EMcache Racer: Nosey Pup (Travel Bug tag) owned by niknrich, 26086.3 miles travelled, held by 7 cachers, visited 19 caches, 8 UK counties & 3 overseas countries
  • 2. SPANK, the Monkey, owned by ITCHYthirdEYE, 5260.9 miles travelled, held by 14 cachers, visited 23 caches, 9 UK counties & 1 overseas country
  • 3. Piston head Pete (& co-pilot Dave), owned by UK89Camaro, 2673.6 miles travelled, held by 13 cachers, visited 18 caches, 6 UK counties & 2 overseas countries
  • EMCACHE RACER JACKO (Travel Bug tag) owned by Garland Gang, 15538.2 miles travelled, held by 19 cachers, visited 22 caches, 8 UK counties & 4 overseas countries
  • Greedy Green Frog Emcache Racer (Adventure Guide tag) owned by greedygreenfrog, 11290.1 miles travelled, held by 17 cachers, visited 23 caches, 1 UK county & 4 overseas countries
  • Mrs Web Rat's emCache Racer (GeoCoin) owned by Mrs Web Rat, 8170.2 miles travelled, held by 9 cachers, visited 11 caches, 3 UK counties & 1 overseas country
  • JohnnyBGoode's emCache racer - You want fries with that? (Travel Bug tag) owned by JohnnyBGoode, 5523.8 miles travelled, held by 12 cachers, visited 13 caches, 2 UK counties & 1 overseas country
  • Geohunter-X emcache Racer (Horsey Neigh Neigh) (Travel Bug tag) owned by geohunter-x, 5198.8 miles travelled, held by 12 cachers, visited 18 caches, 7 UK counties & 1 overseas country
  • Sukygoeswandering emcache racer From Leicestershire with love (Travel Bug tag) owned by Sukygoeswandering, 4120.3 miles travelled, held by 3 cachers, visited 5 caches, 2 UK counties & 1 overseas country
  • The-Black-Angel's emCache Racer (GeoCoin) owned by The-Black-Angel, 3525.5 miles travelled, held by 11 cachers, visited 14 caches, 4 UK counties & 2 overseas countries
  • RascalGaskells emCache Racer - Cachehopper (Travel Bug tag) owned by rascalgaskells, 2862.9 miles travelled, held by 15 cachers, visited 15 caches, 8 UK counties & 1 overseas country
  • emCache racer - Emo the Fast Fish (Travel Bug tag) owned by Slightly Tall Paul, 2174.3 miles travelled, held by 8 cachers, visited 9 caches, 4 UK counties & 2 overseas countries
  • Oceanblue's Emcache racer - Pat's Special Delivery (Travel Bug tag) owned by oceanblue07970, 1655.6 miles travelled, held by 6 cachers, visited 10 caches, 6 UK counties & 2 overseas countries
  • Lucky Lottie emCache racer "Holiday Bug" (Travel Bug tag) owned by Lucky Lottie, 1647.7 miles travelled, held by 14 cachers, visited 15 caches, 1 UK county & 2 overseas countries
  • peachleaf's emCache Racer (GeoCoin) owned by peachleaf, 1151.2 miles travelled, held by 16 cachers, visited 16 caches, 2 UK counties & 2 overseas countries
  • Karon's Promise emCache TB racer (Travel Bug tag) owned by lgxkls, 1051.2 miles travelled, held by 15 cachers (including 1 unknown), visited 17 caches in 10 UK counties. Did not travel overseas
  • The Great Galaxy Seekers - emCache Racer - Big Ben Geocoin (GeoCoin), owned by The Great Galaxy Seekers, 597.2 miles travelled, held by 7 cachers, visited 9 caches in 4 UK counties. Did not travel overseas
  • CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNER John's stegasaurus emcache TB racer (Travel Bug tag) owned by lgxkls, 376.2 miles travelled, held by 12 cachers, visited 14 caches in 7 UK counties. Did not travel overseas
  • Katie 2000 emCache racer "Needles" (Travel Bug tag) owned by Katie 2000, 273.1 miles travelled, held by 2 cachers, visited 10 caches in 3 UK counties. Did not travel overseas
  • EMCACHE RACER LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! (Travel Bug tag) owned by Garland Gang, 228.2 miles travelled, held by 13 cachers, visited 15 caches in 6 UK counties. Did not travel overseas
  • geopirate4's emCache Racer (GeoCoin) owned by geopirate4, 117.7 miles travelled, held by 1 cacher, visited 3 caches in 3 UK counties. Did not travel overseas
  • John's triceratops emcache TB racer (Travel Bug tag) owned by lgxkls, 2.7 miles travelled, held by no cachers (just 1 muggle!), visited 2 caches in 1 UK county