January 8th
The first Scatter Rally of 2003 kicked off from The Chaser, Shipbourne.
There were only 5 crews competing, some people who should remain nameless
(but won’t….Sam Collins!) were frightened off by the snow.
Andy and Vivien Elcomb won the event with a score of 200. This
was the second year in a row they have won my scatter. Second place
was David Gill and D Marley from the HRCR. They beat Mark Dawson
and Daren Hall into 3rd place by getting just one more word in the tie-break,
which was ‘How many words can you make from “I Deserve To Win”’.
Chin and Chris Scudder came home in 4th place with Stefan Davis and Dan
Voutt coming home last. Judging from their score they must have stopped
for a cup of tea somewhere!
The result:
| Andy Elcomb/Viv Elcomb (7oaks) | 200 points | (max score would be 240 points) |
| D Marley/David Gill (HRCR) | 190 points | (42 tie break) |
| Mark Dawson/Daren Hall (7oaks) | 190 points | (41 tie break) |
| Chin/Colin Billings (7oaks) | 110 points | |
| Stefan Davis/Dan Voutt | 20 points |
Ian Crocker
February 12th
A slightly disappointing entry of only six crews, if I’m honest, but
the quality made up for the lack of numbers. I guess I now must eat
humble pie, when I admit that I haven’t been out this season. So
I wasn’t too sure at what level to set the navigation, I therefore opted
for a fairly simple approach although I’m not so sure that our novice crews
would agree, I even managed to baffle Andy E with a 10 figure map reference
(and he keeps telling me he was a Boy Scout).
Whilst the start was at the Park Gate Inn located on the edge of map
188 nearly all the 34 points were located on map 189 on the North Downs
the weather being fair meant that the lane were generally in nice condition
although there was still plenty of mud out there to keep the drivers on
their toes. The biggest problem two crews had however was telling
the time incurring not insubstantial penalties for this failing.
The result:
| Andy Elcomb/Viv Elcomb (7oaks) | 160 points | |
| Roger and Antony McKenzie | 70 points | (170 less 10 minutes penalty) |
| John and Viv Root | 65 points | |
| Stefan Davis and Daren Hall | 60 points | (150 less 9 minutes penalty) |
| Mick Rose and Gill Emlow | 45 points | (9 tie break) |
| Andy Watkins (solo) | 45 points |
Colin Billings