dragonZone: 2020 April
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Game Period: 01-Apr-2020 00:00:00 to 30-Apr-2020 23:59:59 AEST
Lane Cove was hidden on the 18th May 2000 which made it the first geocache on Australian soil. Geocaching Australia had a small celebration in 2010 called the 10th Anniversary of Geocaching in Australia. 20 years after the first Australia geocache was placed we are now marking the 20th anniversary of Geocaching in Australia. To help celebrate the 20th anniversary of Geocaching in Australia, the 2020 team at Geocaching Australia have worked together to create the 2020 Game of Games rewards which are 12 monthly games based on finding and hiding geocaches at Geocaching Australia.
Geocaching Australia has minted a special 20th Anniversary 2020 Game of Games pathtag to be made available as a reward to participants who qualify and are randomly selected to receive the reward. Geocaching Australia are also offering our Keep Calm and Carry On Geocaching buttons for the Locationless Geocaching @ Home games.
Locationless Geocaching @ Home
Due to the recent COVID-19 Pandemic and the advice that restricting your movements outside your home to only essential activities, Geocaching Australia will be listing 3 special locationless geocaches to find from the confines of your home this month. The usual rules of locationless geocaches apply in that you must be at the location when your photograph is taken and that you should include co-ordinates of the location where the photograph was taken, however to protect your privacy you may list the co-ordinates in your closest park, shopping centre, the corner of your street or other close location that maintains your privacy. These special geocaches may only be logged once each and at the end of the month they will be archived as they are only intended to be used for the 2020 Game of Games. We strongly encourage you to take advantage of the requirements that the locationless geocaches be found within the confines of your property and we encourage you to think laterally in the event that a challenge may not be normally achievable. Part of this challenge is to think how creative you can be in capturing the essence of the locationless geocaches while remaining at your home location. Logs that have photographic evidence that they were not taken at your home location will not be eligible for this months reward.
To qualify for this month you will need to:
Guidelines:
Geocaching Australia has minted a special 20th Anniversary 2020 Game of Games pathtag to be made available as a reward to participants who qualify and are randomly selected to receive the reward. Geocaching Australia are also offering our Keep Calm and Carry On Geocaching buttons for the Locationless Geocaching @ Home games.
Locationless Geocaching @ Home
Due to the recent COVID-19 Pandemic and the advice that restricting your movements outside your home to only essential activities, Geocaching Australia will be listing 3 special locationless geocaches to find from the confines of your home this month. The usual rules of locationless geocaches apply in that you must be at the location when your photograph is taken and that you should include co-ordinates of the location where the photograph was taken, however to protect your privacy you may list the co-ordinates in your closest park, shopping centre, the corner of your street or other close location that maintains your privacy. These special geocaches may only be logged once each and at the end of the month they will be archived as they are only intended to be used for the 2020 Game of Games. We strongly encourage you to take advantage of the requirements that the locationless geocaches be found within the confines of your property and we encourage you to think laterally in the event that a challenge may not be normally achievable. Part of this challenge is to think how creative you can be in capturing the essence of the locationless geocaches while remaining at your home location. Logs that have photographic evidence that they were not taken at your home location will not be eligible for this months reward.
To qualify for this month you will need to:
- Find and log 3 specific locationless geocaches.
- Wildlife in your backyard - Locationless Geocaching @ Home
- Wildlife in your backyard - Locationless Geocaching @ Home
- Wildlife in your backyard - Locationless Geocaching @ Home
- The log date must be in the game month.
- The log must be made in the game month.
- Photographic evidence must be included with your log.
Guidelines:
- An announcement with the details for each game will be made on the 15th of the preceding month to give you time to plan your hides or finds to achieve the goals.
- Each game will have different target in terms of numbers, types, containers and date restrictions.
- Each monthly game is standalone. You cannot carry forward qualifying geocaches from previous months.
- There is no ladder for the 12 games of 2020; only qualifiers.
- You gain a qualifying entry into the game by achieving the targets set.
- At the end of the month there will be 10 random geocachers chosen from all those who qualified in that month to receive an Anniversary Pathtag reward.
- At the end of the month there will be 15 random geocachers who did not receive an Anniversary Pathtag reward chosen from all those who qualified in that month to receive a Keep Calm and Carry On Geocaching button reward.
- Each game will share the same 20th Anniversary 2020 Game of Games pathtag.
- You only qualify once for each game regardless of whether you meet the find qualification, hide qualification or both.
- You are eligible to win more than one prize over the 12 months of the 2020 Game of Games if you qualify for that months game.
- The decision of the administrators is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
- Prize winners will be notified within one week of the months game ending.