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15Tango
Past MnGCA Chair
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Location: St. Paul
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 Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 5:14 pm Post subject: B.U.G. |
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http://www.kstp.com/article/view/118373/--just saw this on the news--and I thought wandering around in the woods using billions of dollars worth of research and technology looking for McToys™ in Tupperware™ hidden in hollow trees was odd!!!
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Centris
Past MnGCA Chair
Joined: 27 Nov 2002
Posts: 620
Location: Southwest WY
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Imagine the traffic and parking problems this "game" will cause.  AAakkkk!
Too bad there was no decent pictures of the teams hoisting and following their game pieces around, they are HUGE!
I heard someone on the radio call it a "competitive flash mob". It will be interesting to see how it all works out. |
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hardware
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Joined: 13 Jan 2003
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i saw some promotional material for this game, including an ad on the back of the rake magazine, if i'm not mistaken, but it wasn't until this morning when i saw that awful m.a. rosko doing one of her "field reports" on the fox 9 morning disaster formerly known as good day (grief) minnesota that i saw my first ounce of press coverage.
it seems to me that a "game" that wants people to learn more about the core cities and participate in the event, both online and in person, would do a better job of promoting itself prior to. (it's the first time it has been staged, so i can appreciate some of the difficulty.)
i was going to mention this last week, but was a bit too busy w/ preparations to leave town.
how much did anyone else know about this game before it started? |
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Wayfarin Stranger
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Joined: 01 Apr 2003
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Hmmmmm....so that's where my daughters U. of M. tuition is going..  |
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15Tango
Past MnGCA Chair
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 8:25 am Post subject: |
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| Hmmmmm....so that's where my daughters U. of M. tuition is going.. |
Just whatever's left over after sports are paid for.
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Marsha and Silent Bob
Past MnGCA President
Joined: 02 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 10:36 am Post subject: |
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| Just whatever's left over after sports are paid for. |
The school I graduated from dropped 4 or 5 men's sports to "fix budget problems" yet had enough money to support 88 full scholarships (Div. I A minimum, ugh) for football and stadium lights so that they could play at night (at a nominal cost of $1.6 million).
The priorities of colleges these days are the pits. Hopefully the U of MN will continue in its tradition as a fine Big10 institution 
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rickrich
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I'd like to see the 3 teams go after 100 metro geocaches in 3 days in a scramble format. They would get to see a lot more of the cities than just walking down some streets pushing a large inflatable with a slow air leak.
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