Congratulations to the new champions!

WGA Member Joined: 2007-11-26 Posts: 3259

On this last day of the year, with the leading team currently caching in Arizona and the next closest player nearly 2,400 points back Shocked

, I think it's pretty safe to call it for 2010.

As if there were ever any doubt, the Lonely Cache Game has crowned a new king—and queen! Starting off the year on a tear of 733 points in January on 62 finds, HuffinPuffin2 proceeded to smash records, including:

-Greatest number of monthly points (781.5)
-Greatest single-season point total (3842),
-The all-time record for lonely caches found, at 367 and counting.

Looking at the all-time leader board is equally remarkable. HP2 did in a mere 15 months what it had taken us veterans three years to accomplish. It's also worth noting that they did it the hard way, with nearly 97% of their LCG reports coming from new finds (just 14 revisits Shocked

); and without having the benefit of "maintenance points" available to players in years past.

While they could have easily blown by the all-time cumulative points total in 2010, they took their foot off the gas pedal in December to show a little mercy wink

....but I have a feeling January, with a fresh list, will be a busy month… Very Happy

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 11:11 am

I'm amazed and tip my hat to this great team. They're great people in person, that write fantastic logs, and appear to have a great time doing it. I can honestly say, "I'm jealous." It's apparent they have a great relationship and have an enormous passion for the sport.

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 2:00 pm

Yes, the HP2 team found out how much fun the LCG is! Congrats! Very Happy

Plenty of room for more cachers to join the party!

By the way... will there be a LCG Party this year?

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 5:38 pm

I bow before the amazingness of all the top players, and I'm a little surprised that my 11 points Embarassed

for the year didn't have me in dead last. Of course now that I've tried it, 2011 will hopefully include a lot more LCG caches.

WGA Member Joined: 2006-12-23 Posts: 5959

I still have to log my 700 lcg's I found this week...so don't get too excited about that leader position Razz

Congrats hp2's!

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 7:40 pm

Contrats to the winners. Now when we going to have the party?

Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 4:48 pm

Way to go HP2! Amazing persistance you have I thought my 200 point months were exhausting I can't even imagine 700+

I feel like a winner because I was ahead of you 2 months! not many can say they out scored HP2.

again congratulations

WGA Member Joined: 2007-02-23 Posts: 771 Location: Menasha

Yes, there is something uniquely special about the lonely cache game. The bug can bite hard, and it couldn't have happened to a better team. Hats off to Andy and Linda for all the new plateaus they showed us! Cool

Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 7:19 pm

JimandLinda wrote:

By the way... will there be a LCG Party this year?

I'm tentatively planning something for the 1st or 2nd week in February.

Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 7:20 pm

CodeJunkie wrote:

JimandLinda wrote:

By the way... will there be a LCG Party this year?

I'm tentatively planning something for the 1st or 2nd week in February.

Cool.

Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 7:59 pm

CodeJunkie wrote:

JimandLinda wrote:

By the way... will there be a LCG Party this year?

I'm tentatively planning something for the 1st or 2nd week in February.

If you want, we could make this a WGA event. We could probably get the board to kick in some door prizes.

zuma

Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 8:00 pm

Didnt want to miss the point of the thread.....Congrats to H&P.....Very impressive.

zuma

Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 8:42 pm

Thank you! Embarassed

WGA Member Joined: 2009-11-29 Posts: 63

Congratulations!
I want to thank you for all your wonderful logs too... they are appreciated.

Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 9:06 am

zuma wrote:

CodeJunkie wrote:

JimandLinda wrote:

By the way... will there be a LCG Party this year?

I'm tentatively planning something for the 1st or 2nd week in February.

If you want, we could make this a WGA event. We could probably get the board to kick in some door prizes.

zuma

Tentative details (pending confirmation with the owners)
Date: 2/12/11
Time: 4 - 6 pm
Location: West End Pizza - Oshkosh
GPS Coords: N 43 59.780 W 88 34.330

I will be contacting them today to confirm and hopefully get things published yet this weekend.