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TV ClubHouse: Archive: Eco-Challenge (Going on now - Ethan and Jenna & others participating): Archive through October 14, 2002

Ryn

Friday, October 11, 2002 - 07:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Good point - here is a link to all the teams, and where they stand..... (including last checkpoint crossed):

http://www.ecochallenge.com/fiji/ranking/index.asp

Myjohnhenry

Friday, October 11, 2002 - 10:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Update:

1 Air Pacific
1 Mazda
1 Earthlink
4 Golite/Balance Bar
5 Nokia Adventure

1 team (Kodak Water/Sport) has not reached checkpoint 2
30 teams have passed checkpoint 3
Team Mad River is still in 74th spot and Skechers WEP is in 80th

Myjohnhenry

Friday, October 11, 2002 - 10:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Team Seagate.com from NZ is in 6th place
Montrail is in 9th
The Playboy team is in 66th

I am looking forward to seeing some more photos...so far it is just mobs of racers and Mark Burnett and a few photos of the locals who are watching.

If you click on the team names on the list of teams there is a space where they can leave messages at checkpoints and a spot for people to leave them words of encouragement.

Ryn

Friday, October 11, 2002 - 11:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
All teams have reached Checkpoint 2 now and 37 have reached 3, none have reached 4 yet.

Top 5 are same as listed above ;)

Ryn

Friday, October 11, 2002 - 11:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Here is a link for the team Ethan and Jenna are on :

http://www.ecochallenge.com/fiji/teams/54.html

And here is a direct link to their message board:

http://www.ecochallenge.com/fiji/teams/enc/guestbook.asp?teamnumber=54

Myjohnhenry

Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 10:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
At just after midnight 10/13 Fiji time....

The leader board remains the same.
45 teams have reached checkpoint 3, 43 of whom are on their way to checkpoint 4 which looks to be a fairly long leg. No one has yet reached that checkpoint.

Myjohnhenry

Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 12:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
704 am Fiji time......

The leader board has changed with the first 6 teams to reach Checkpoint 4

1. SPIE (France)
2. Montrail/Parallax (USA)
3. Mazda (South Africa)
4. Air Pacific (Australia)
5. Nokia Adventure (Finland)
6. Golite/Balance Bar (USA)

54 out of the 80 teams have reached checkpoint 3

Myjohnhenry

Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 02:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Latest update.....

Fiji's team has been disqualified (I haven't found out why yet) and Team Eco-Subaru from the US is now an unranked team continuing with only 3 members due to a medical emergency.

Rissa

Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 03:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Was just checking exn.com for updates and apparently a whole bunch of teams decided to take a short-cut, got blocked by an inpassable waterfall and are now having to backtrack. That explains why no further teams made it to cp4 last night.

BTW, anyone know offhand what the time difference is? I figure it's 4:30pm for me, so 8:30am tomorrow for them???

Ryn

Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 05:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Location
Fiji
Geographical Location 18° 8' S, 178° 25' E
Current Local Time Sun Oct 13 12:41:53 2002
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
Sun Oct 13 00:41:53 2002

Local Time Zone
GMT+1200

Currently Observing
Standard Time

Ryn

Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 05:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
So roughly 12:45 PM Sunday....

1. Montrail/Parallax (USA)
2. SPIE (France)
3. Golite/Balance Bar (USA)
4. Mazda (South Africa)
5. Air Pacific (Australia)
6. Nokia Adventure (Finland)

Only 1st two teams through Checkpoint 5.
11 Teams in all through Checkpoint 4
68 Teams in all through Checkpoint 3 (Mad River being the last of these)

3 additional teams through Check poitn 3 but One DQ'd (Fiji) and Two 'unranked' (Bda-Extreme and Eco-Subaru - chances are they dropped a member).

Remaining 10 teams only through Checkpoint #2 - The Canadian team 'Wodaw Water & Sport' is in last place.

Ryn

Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 05:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Top 2 are basically neck and neck - both left the last check point within 5 minutes of each other.

Myjohnhenry

Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 07:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LAtest update from Fiji

1. Montrail/Parallax (USA)
2. SPIE (France)
3. Air Pacific (Australia)
4. Nokia Adventure (Finland)
5. Mazda (South Africa)

All 5 of these teams have passed checkpoint 5 within little over an hour separating them.
14 teams total (including the above 5) have passed checkpoint 4.
There are still 4 teams who have not reached checkpoint 3

Eco-Subaru is unranked due to their team leader being airlifted out due to severe sciatica pain and immobility of his leg. I have not yet located reports about the Fiji teams disqualification or what happened to BDA-extreme.

Rissa

Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 08:09 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Another update: 11 teams have now made it through checkpoint 5, a further 9 past cp4 and the rest still between cp3/4. Canadians with only 7 teams in the race are holding our own quite nicely with 3 teams in the top 20. The Hayden Christenson team is either improving or other teams are beginning to slow because they are up from last place to 75th (Kodak water&sport). The two survivor teams are:
SkechersWEP in 76th place and Mad River in 68th. There are now two unranked teams, the 2nd being BDA Extreme from the USA. I couldn't find any info. as to the reason though.

Myjohnhenry

Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 12:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Update from Fiji....approx. 7 a.m. Monday morning

(The website is a bit messed up after the new update...the leader board is actually teams that are in 49th through 53rd place) :)

Leader board actually remains the same
1. Montrail/Parallax (USA)
2. SPIE (France)
3. Air Pacific (Australia)
4. Nokia Adventure (Finland)
5. Mazda (South Africa)

11 teams past checkpoint 5, 27 total have arrived at checkpoint 4.
There are now 4 disqualified teams and Eco-Subaru continues on unranked with 3 members.

Myjohnhenry

Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 04:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Update from Fiji....1058 Fiji time

First 5 teams into checkpoint 6

1. Montrail/Parallax (USA)
2. Buff AXN (Spain)
3. SPIE (France)
4. Nokia Adventure (Finland)
5. Mazda (South Africa)

20 teams total at or past checkpoint 5
33 teams total at or past checkpoint 4
The remaining teams have all past checkpoint 3

MadRiver is in 67th, Kodak Water&Sports and Skechers WEP tied in 74th (last of ranked teams).

Ryn

Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 07:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Update from Fiji....1:05 PM Monday - Fiji time

5 teams out of checkpoint 6

1. Montrail/Parallax (USA) Out 7:50 am
2. Buff AXN (Spain) Out 9:41 am
3. SPIE (France) Out 9:43 am
4. Nokia Adventure (Finland) Out 9:48 am
5. Mazda (South Africa) Out 10:08 am

15 teams between 5 & 6
13 between 4 & 5

the rest between 3 & 4.

4 DQ's teams - 1 unranked.

the un ranked team (Eco-Subaru) is ahead of several of the teams still racing.

the 4 dq's teams are: BulaFiji.com,BDA Extreme,VVnW, and AXN Merrell Quantas.

Other stuff has not changed since the teams have not checked in at at CP 4.

Ryn

Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 07:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I changed the thread title and put a link to the main site at the top of the page :)

Myjohnhenry

Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 07:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Ryn :)
(I hope everyone posts with the update from line first so people don't see results they don't want to see when they check for new messages. I hate it when I get spoiled accidentally)

I wish we could get more information, but I am enjoying the little news blurbs and the pics and the rankings.

Ryn

Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 07:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
went looking for other sources of news...

This site MIGHT have stuff the main site doesn't...

http://www.hellofiji.com/news/sports/

Found this article about Team Fiji:

Team Fiji drops out
Monday October 14, 2002


The Bula.Com sponsored national team bade goodbye to the 9th Eco-challenge when captain, Ilimotama Tuarau fractured his right ankle during the mountain biking expedition.

The Tuarau led side were disqualified on day three of the 10-day of the world’s race expedition.

Tuarau was injured yesterday morning when his bike hit some mud and struck the side the road approximately one kilometer south of Waivaka.

The national side captain plunged six feet off the bridge and sustained fracture to his right ankle.

He was transported back to the medical tent at Waivaka pasture when Thunderbird 3 responded.

The military personal was flown by helicopter to Pacific Harbour for road ambulance transport to Nadi Hospital.

The rule stats that if a member of the team is injured, the whole team is disqualified.

Mountain biking is one of the 2002 race disciplines.

The others includes bushwacking, jungle trekking, paddling, canyoneering, coasteering, climbing and swimming.

The team rated 18th on day two had a tragic end to the country’s first ever outing on Eco Challenge.

Fiji which was out to break a record of the being the first host nation to win the title were cut out shortly after the military personal was pronounced injured.

At the moment Mavda of South Africa is leading ahead of Earthlink of United States and Air Pacific of Austria.

The Daily Post

Ryn

Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 08:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
new update - rankings did not change but VVnW was switched from DQ to Unranked.

Rissa

Monday, October 14, 2002 - 10:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Dang it all!! LOL I had a long update which crashed upon posting. Will try again with more brevity.

We need to keep in mind that the first 6 teams are there because the majority in the middle of the pack made a navigation error and spent hours hiking towards a dead end and then hours retracing their steps. It will be interesting to see if those teams can make up their time and catch up to the first 6 who have about an 8 hour lead.

USA team quest seems to be in limbo after their captain just quit at cp3. No report of injury, he just quit. When I checked though the 3 person team was still being ranked, so not sure what the deal is.

Team Spie from France who are presently in third place may be facing penalties today after they hired a local villager to load their backpacks on his horse to be carried while they hiked. Assuming it will be a time penalty and therefore should definately shake up the ranking of that leading group of 6 teams.

My one complaint about the eco site is that there seems to be little or no information about why/how teams are disqualified or unranked. There are now 4 unranked teams (1 Cdn, 3 American) and 3 disqualified teams.

Kstme

Monday, October 14, 2002 - 02:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Rissa...I AGREE with you! The lack of information coming from the site is horrible this year!

Thanks again for all the updates! Don't think Robin's going to do it this year, either! <sigh>

Whoami

Monday, October 14, 2002 - 03:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
What happened to Earthlink? I was scanning the early postings, and they were in the top 5. Now I don't see them listed.

Is that Sarah person (didn't she "captian" Moosejaw last year) come back. After all her antics, I can't imagine anyone wanting to team up with her.

Kstme

Monday, October 14, 2002 - 03:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Whoami...just checked the board. Adamson is in 2nd (Balance Bar) running neck and neck with Montrail. Robin is still in 9th. I'm in awe of Balance. They really had to book to catch up!

Not sure she is back again this year or not. She's not with Moosejaw.