# Fanfare # And the winner is...

1st Place	Blue Pig Racer - Andy	£50.00
2nd Place	Bonzo's Lazy Pig Racer - Lerp	£30.00
3rd Place	Hambo - Tony	£15.00
Loser	Moo Shu - Claire	£4.40
Most Cachers	Blue Pig Racer - Andy	£5.00
Most Caches	Blue Pig Racer - Andy	£2.50
	Squealer - Jamie	£2.50
Most Countries	Hambo - Tony	£5.00

Total Winnings
Andy	£57.50
Lerp	£30.00
Tony	£20.00
Claire	£4.40
Jamie	£2.50

The Country Counts

The last side prize results are in...

Pig	Count	Where they went...
Hambo	5	England, Wales, Canada, Belgium & France
Blue Pig Racer	4	England, Hong Kong, Taiwan & USA
Squealer	4	England, Wales, Scotland & Finland
Hamlet	4	England, Spain, Denmark & Germany
Lazy Pig Racer	3 (4)	England, Wales, (Isle Of Man) & China
Bonzo's Lazy Pig Racer	3	England, Canada & Holland
Harry Plopper	3	England, Scotland & Thailand
Streaky	3	England, Belgium & Holland
Gin Pig	3	England, Germany & France
Wilbur	2	England & USA
Boss Hogg	2	England & USA
trotalong	2	England & Canada
Wild Hog	2	England & Wales
Pink Pig Racer	2	England & Spain
Mochyn	2	England & France
Spider Pig	1	England
Pinky	1	England
Moo Shu	1	England
Sus Scrofa	1 (3)	England (Germany & Austria by Mark I after he was declared dead)

The side prizes, well some of them...

So as well as being our overall race winner Andy gets the most cachers and half the most caches.
I'd appreciate it if everyone can check their own number of unique countries and let me know what they've got ( I can't automate that bit )

Pig Name	Caches Visited	Cachers Met
Blue Pig Racer	19	23
Bonzo's Lazy Pig Racer	10	14
Boss Hogg	8	9
Gin Pig	8	11
Hambo	10	12
Hamlet	10	16
Harry Plopper	9	10
Lazy Pig Racer	12	13
Mochyn	1	2
Moo Shu	3	5
Pink Pig Racer	3	4
Pinky	9	10
Spider Pig	18	16
Squealer	19	21
Streaky	11	12
Sus Scrofa	4	5
trotalong	5	6
Wilbur	9	10
Wild Hog	10	11

Final positions

The final positions are...

Bug	Location	Miles
Blue Pig Racer	In Wayne's Sunset View	14510.8
Bonzo's Lazy Pig Racer	In Kuieren rond IJhorst	12698.7
Hambo	In Vallée de la Ternoise - 1	7538.2
Harry Plopper	In Khun Max's bug hotel	7142.3
Lazy Pig Racer	In Olympic Forest Park	5627.2
Wilbur	In Highway 17 Travel Bug Hotel	5455.8
Boss Hogg	In The Skegemog TB INN	5133.6
trotalong	In the hands of express_cacheers	4584.1
Squealer	In Mustasaari - Korsholm	2637.7
Hamlet	In Transwarpkanal LG2008	2521.2
Sus Scrofa	In 4-Seental-Cache Keutschachersee	1448.6
Streaky	In White Knobs Cache	1204.7
Gin Pig	In Schenkentour	1077.4
Wild Hog	In A-Road Anarchy - A49 Cuddington	939.5
Pink Pig Racer	In En la sombra de El Alcázar	749.8
Spider Pig	In Mermaid's Mystery	424.7
Pinky	In Tribute to A. L. Rowse	298.1
Mochyn	Unknown Location	237.7
Moo Shu	In Offset (from inset)	45.8

Well done Andy! (Reckon he might have nabbed the side prizes too, but we'll wait for Tony's official update)

Latest ( & probably last ) side prize update...

Pig Name	Caches Visited	Cachers Met	Miles Done
Blue Pig Racer	18	15	6637.2mi
Bonzo's Lazy Pig Racer	8	13	12611.2mi
Boss Hogg	7	9	5133.6mi
Gin Pig	8	11	1077.4mi
Hamlet	9	15	2518.2mi
Harry Plopper	9	10	7142.3mi
Lazy Pig Racer	11	13	518.5mi
Mochyn	1	2	237.7mi
Moo Shu	2	4	31.6mi
Pink Pig Racer	3	4	749.8mi
Pinky	9	10	298.1mi
Spider Pig	15	14	262.3mi
Squealer	17	19	2272.6mi
Streaky	11	12	1204.7mi
Sus Scrofa (Mk I & II)	4	6	1463.3mi
trotalong	5	6	4584.1mi
Wilbur	9	10	5455.8mi
Wild Hog	10	11	939.5mi

Poor Moo Shu's Gone Missing

noilyp posted a note for it...

Moo Shu is MIA from GCGD0P Cache with a view (The Chilterns)
Went there today with a view to moving him on.

RIP Piggy

Sweet and Sour Pork, Hong Kong Style

With egg fried rice please.

Blue Pig Racer makes a massive jump to Hong Kong and moves into third place, Sweet!

:-)

Danishhhhh

Hamlet's gone to Denmark! Hang on - aren't the Danish famous for their bacon??

What do you call a pig with three eyes?

Piiig!

Nearly met my piggy!

Hambo was picked up in Regent's Park on Saturday from a cache that we went to visit later that very same day.

We didn't get to it though coz some bloke in a nasty white suit and some bird in a fancy dress were sat in the way having pictures took just coz they got married or something. Bloody liberty I call it.

Our decision to abandon the hunt was helped along by Rich making up phantom DNF logs for the cache on that same day that have now mysteriously vanished to be replaced by found logs.

Monthly(ish) update for the side prizes

Pig Name	Caches	Cachers
Blue Pig Racer	6	6
Bonzo's Lazy Pig Racer	4	6
Boss Hogg	6	7
Gin Pig	6	7
Hambo	4	5
Hamlet	4	11
Harry Plopper	6	8
Lazy Pig Racer	9	12
Mochyn	1	2
Moo Shu	2	4
Pink Pig Racer	2	4
Pinky	8	11
Spider Pig	9	11
Squealer	11	11
Streaky	5	5
Sus Scrofa	3	4
Sus Scrofa MKII	1	1
trotalong	5	6
Wilbur	8	10
Wild Hog	8	10

Original Sus Scrofa

removed comments as requested

Sus Scrofa MkII

New pig launched as my last one has been kidnapped.

http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?guid=303fbc2f-6459-4af3-bed2-eab6015a4951

Latest update for the side prizes...
( in no particular order )

Pig Name	Caches	Cachers
Bonzo's Lazy Pig Racer	3	4
Hamlet	2	9
Squealer	5	6
Boss Hogg	6	7
Pink Pig Racer	1	1
Gin Pig	5	7
Harry Plopper	4	6
Lazy Pig Racer	6	8
Wild Hog	7	7
Streaky	3	4
Mochyn	1	2
Hambo	2	3
Pinky	5	8
Spider Pig	7	9
Sus Scrofa	3	3
trotalong	4	4
Moo Shu	2	4
Blue Pig Racer	5	5
Wilbur	7	9

Hurrah For Hambo

Hambo's not dead!

After 1584 hours in the wilderness (that's 66 days to the numerically challenged ) Hambo has re-appeared. He's been dropped off in North Wales clocking up 187.3 miles.

Bonzo's Lazy Pig Racer not so lazy after all...

Was getting a bit worried about my bug, but it seems to be on the move again after being placed and picked up. A quick recalculation of mileage puts it over 7k miles. Go Bonzo!

Seeing the racers in order...

In case you weren't aware, it is still possible to see the chart that used to be on this page showing the pig racers current milage and position in the race.

In the right nav bar there's a 'Site we like' section, just click your little mousey / trackball / magic pen thing on the 'Live lazy pig stats' link and wait...



...and wait...


...and wait..


...and wait..

...then the magic will happen.

We should never have let all these Johnny-Come-Latelys join up and slow things down.

Side Prizes

This is the current count of caches and cachers per pig for a couple of the side prizes...

Pig Name	Caches	Cachers
Wild Hog	5	5
Wilbur	4	5
trotalong	2	2
Sus Scrofa	3	3
Streaky	1	2
Squealer	3	3
Spider Pig	6	8
Pinky	2	5
Pink Pig Racer	0	1
Moo Shu	2	4
Mochyn	1	2
Lazy Pig Racer	4	4
Harry Plopper	2	3
Hamlet	1	6
Hambo	0	1
Gin Pig	1	1
Boss Hogg	3	4
Bonzo's Lazy Pig Racer	2	3
Blue Pig Racer	2	2

End of the road?

It looks like the end of the road for Mochyn. For a second time he has been marked as missing from Schuman TB Hotel and this time it looks like it is for real. If my (somewhat sketchy) translation of the comment left by the last cacher to find it is correct, Mochyn is one of 4 TBs/coins on the inventory that are not in the cache. I can hope that he has just been taken but not logged but I won't hold my breath...RIP Mochyn you will be missed.

Mileage fixed!

Looks like they've finally fixed the mileage problem! However, you will need to 'recalculate mileage' (or wait for someone to drop your bug) to get the mileage updated. Fly piggies fly!

Mileage calculations

Looks like gc.com isn't calculating mileage for moved TBs. You can normally 'recalulate mileage' from the dropdown on the top right of your bug's page (where it says 'mark as missing'), but even this isn't working. Might be useful once it's fixed though. It's been logged on the gc.com forums - someone called Mowchak's whinging 'coz his bug's in a race. Never mind Jamie - it's already beaten Pigassou!

Mochyn 'sprouts' wings!

She's made it to Bruxelles (that's Brussels for the languagely challenged) and into second place.

She actually went by train but Mochyn 'sprouts' wheels didn't have the same ring to it

BIG FANFARE !!!

The last bug is away, Blue Pig Racer finally made it out into the big wide world this weekend.

There were worries he was AWOL before he even started.

Yukon not keep up with Bonzo

Bonzo's Lazy Pig Racer has flown all the way to the Yukon in north west Canada (4289.7 miles) bringing his total up to 4333.3 miles and has already been picked up with a promise of a trip across an ocean !!!

...and Mochyn is on the move!

Late to start, Mochyn is making up for it by being picked up by Petite Fleur who will be taking him on a trip next week...on Eurostar! Not sure how far they are going but that should get him a few miles. :)

Through The Ton Barrier

Rick and Spider Pig have broken the hundred mile barrier in just two trips!

Three way action!

Well apparently we did such a good job of creating "Can U" find it that Sus Scrofa has come to visit Streaky and Mochyn! Will be interesting to see who moves on first from the cache!

Week 3 - Some movements

The start of this week has seen a few more movements of TB's. Bonzo's Lazy Pig Racer has leaped into 1st place with a move to London. Second place is Sus Scorfa who was picked up in Greenham Common. Pinky is the 3rd TB to register a movement of just 1 mile. I sense this weekend we will see more miles logged against TB's if the weather holds well.

Status of TB's
2 have moved 43.6 miles, 1 mile respectively
1 with miles has been picked up but not moved on
11 are in the hands of someone but still yet to be placed in another cache.
4 are in caches but yet to move
1 is yet to launch (in hands of owner)

Best Song Ever

http://www.gpsthegame.com/bonuses/gpssong.mp3



(from http://www.gpsthemovie.com).

Go Streaky! Go Mochyn!

Last night finally saw the release of Streaky and Mochyn on their travels Both were launched in our very own cache which went live last night, "Can U" find it?

Go Streaky! and go Mochyn! (but not as much go please, Streaky wants to beat you)

Bugnapped!

With my travel bug history I feared the worst when I was contacted to say that Wilbur, Squealer and Harry Plopper were all missing from their caches...

Thankfully Go Pack Go had forgotten to log them out...

No early bath for SixFingerBanjoBoy yet :)

Week 2 - Cold Weekend

All 19 travel bugs still in the race (no MIAs yet), there was a massive flurry of activity over the weekend of travels being picked up all over the area. Sus Scrofa is currently leading with 6.7 miles with 30 weeks to go it is early days.

Status of TB's:
1 has moved to another cache - 6.7 miles
1 has been picked up but not logged officially (possible candidate for MIA)
4 are in caches but yet to move
4 are yet to launch (in hands of owner)
9 are in the hands of someone but still yet to be placed in another cache.

First Blood...

To quote Chuck Berry...

"Go Johnny, go go go,"

First off the marks...

...is Hamlet! Wooohooo!

Hambo & Moo Shu set off yesterday

The two of them went for a trip to Windsor to find their new homes but due to an issue with some royal sheep they've started their journey from the same cache.

The contenders... (so far)

Add 'em to your watchlist
Blue Pig Racer
Bonzo's Lazy Pig Racer
Gin Pig
Hambo
Hamlet
Harry Plopper
Lazy Pig Racer
Moo Shu
Pink Pig Racer
Pinky
Spider Pig
Squealer
Sus Scrofa
Wilbur
Wild Hog

To be or not to be...

Hamlet has been launched in Big Box of Cool Stuff!

Fly little piggy, fly!

Pink and Blue Piggy Racers ready to go!

After surviving the Black and Decker Hammer Drill, Blue and Pink Racers are ready to go! Go piggies!!!!

Mine has been set off on it's way......

The Pigs Are Lining Up...

Gin Pig
Hambo
Hamlet
Moo Shu
Pinky
Spider Pig
Sus Scrofa
Wild Hog

Launch in 4 days!

not long to go guys, my TB's are ready to go, oink oink!

Wahey - We're off

Sort of.