Xtreme Pursuit; Before and After

BEFORE …

Stage 1 of the Tri-Xtreme Season 2 is held on 22nd June 2008 and Team’s Registration is at MD’s Sport’s Field. Registration starts at 8am to 8:45am, followed by announcement and actual game starts at 9:30am sharp.

//Team’s registration table

//Overview of the field

//Team Silverplay, Team 50

Without going into details, the challenge, (or Treassure Hunt, Xtreme Pursuit) took place around the whole of ‘Gadong’. The ‘rough’ perimeter of the ‘zone’ surrounds Guan Electronics, Nyonya, Justoys, Sushi Tei, Harajuki, Happy Union down to Cafe de’ Paris, Tk Restaurant back to Sin Kew Hin, Borneo Clinic, The Mall (all floors, except basement. lol) and towards Unitek and TT Blue and finally, returning to DeeJay, WYWY, Jaya Hypermart and Happy Motoring Sdn Bhd. I bet you guys can roughly visualise the areas to be covered.

It is divided into 4 ‘Zones’ namely, Zone H, Zone S, Zone B and Zone C. (HSBC). Within a time frame of 3 hours, we are required to answer all 100 quiz (estimated because I forgot the total number, help filling in?) along with 6 Bonus Challenge to be completed.

Examples of the quizes are,

//Quiz 22 to Quiz 45 of Zone “H” (The Mall).

22. i don’t like chilli
- Chill Cafe (by cancelling the ‘i’ because ‘i’ don’t like)

23. A sign of global warming
- Heatwave (Self explanatory)

27. Shout ME once done
- Bingo (Self explainatory)

33. This man is edible
- Mr. Pizza (He’s a pizza and is edible)

Looking back at these question put a smile on my face because I can still recall the feeling, the excitement and voices of friends shouting out the correct answer during the day itself. And, of course, I’m more happy when i see answers which are given by me eg.

28. the pod ran away with my shoes
- itop (ipod – pod = i, full clothing – shoes = top, hence itop)

64. Freedom with a bit of assistance
- Freego (Self explanatory)

There’s no pictures taking throughout the 3 hours of the challenge because we’re all concentrating on the answers. We only did 1 bonus challenge out of 6 and obtained 1 mark for ‘participating’ because we got the answer wrong some more. lol. We got back to the MD’s Meeting Point before 12:30pm to hand in our Answer folder. We were supplied with Mac Donald meal and mineral water for lunch. At 1:30pm, there’s a group photo shots and announcement of qualified team of 40 out of 102 for Stage 2; XTREME ADVENTURE.

After naming numerous Team Name and Team Number one by one until 40, our team name, Silverplay and Team 50 did not get its call. We were disappointed and left the field.

“I’m so dissapointed we didnt get into the top 40.”
“Not even 40% out of the 100 teams?”
“I really felt like crying but didnt la.”
//quoted from Carmen’s Blog

“sighs` the truth is still we are not in the top 40 teams. SAD SAD SAD, it’s a sad sad situation..”
//quoted from Shenny’s Blog

“So *thumbs up* to Silverplay! *Thumbs up* to our leader, Jayden who did a great job leading.. hahaha. “
//Not a disappointment quote, but it’s one of my favs, from Carmen =p

//Cool side view, Carmen =]

Best Logical Bet came true after all!
Stage 1 > Lavish Dinner

AFTER …

Some miracle happened! I’ve received a call from Alvin Tien from HSBC on 24th June 2008 that our team got in the Top 40! He said that one of the team dropped out (which I was too happy to ask about it why) and our team are actually the Top 41 out of 102! HAHAHAHA. It’s my first time to be qualified for Stage 2! (Our team didn’t get in during HSBC’s Tri Xtreme Challenge Season 1 and BSM’s Walk-a-hunt.)

Bet Logical Bet didn’t came true. Hm

Stage 1 > Stage 2 > Lavish Dinner? or
Stage 1> Stage 2 > Stage 3 > Prize Presentation + Lavish Dinner? We’ll see =]

It’s so ‘last minute’ that they didn’t change their link in this page. Don’t, don’t tell me it’s a prank?

//this is how we look before the game and after the call but definitely not after the announcement of teams qualified on the day itself. KNS’s Hanluen is trying to act cool here, not cool la bro =p

SATA – I hope this post is ‘lively’ because it has more pictures of peoples, esp my friends and I. I’ll be participating Stage 2 this Sunday, wish me and my team luck on solving the puzzles. My hair might look like bushes because I have not cut my hair since CNY (4 months) and lucky that there’s a hair show coming for free hair cut, i might blog about it. More photos next post.