Geography Challenge III: Evens vs Odds renewed

[Wolfpack]

Round 13:
A-Team is in Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee
Z-Team is in Palermo-on-the-Lakes, Ohio

Current destination: Any city or town on the Pacific Ocean
Next destination: Any city east of Interstate 35

[digamma]

Team A Los Angeles, CA

[TazFTW]

Z-team goes to San Diego CA

[Wolfpack]

A-Team:
*Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee to Los Angeles, California = 1885 miles
*Posted at 8:44 PM

Z-Team:
*Palermo-on-the-Lakes, Ohio to San Diego, California = 2053 miles
*Posted at 10:15 PM

A-Team wins distance points (+1.0 pts)
A-Team wins post time points (+0.2 pts)
A-Team time bonus is +1.8 (91 minutes)

Scoreboard:
A-Team 16.6, Z-Team 11.8

A devastating round by A-Team. Z-Team's running out of chances now.

[Wolfpack]

Round 14:
A-Team is in Los Angeles, California
Z-Team is in San Diego, California

Current destination: Any US city east of Interstate 35 (cities that sit on I-35 count since some part of them would technically be east of it)
Next destination: A city with a franchise in the NFC North Division

[henry296]

Team A - Kansas City, MO

This is a good combination of places as there are many ways to play this question.

[Mr. Wednesday]

Team Z - Wichita, KS

[Mr. Wednesday]

Dola, hopefully getting the distance bonus can keep us alive for another round, anyway.

[Mr. Wednesday]

OVERRIDE - Team Z to Emporia, KS

[Mr. Wednesday]

OVERRIDE - Team Z to Miller, KS

[Mr. Wednesday]

Quintuple dola, even stretching this one to the bare limit, I think we're cooked on the next round even if we beat them to post, because their second choice is shorter than our first choice.

[Wolfpack]

A-Team:
*Los Angeles, California to Kansas City, Missouri = 1366 miles
*Posted at 11:35 AM

Z-Team:
*San Diego, California to Emporia, Kansas = 1237 miles
*Posted at 2:54 PM

Z-Team wins distance points (+1.0 pts)
A-Team wins post time points (+0.2 pts)
A-Team time bonus is +2.6 (139 minutes)

Scoreboard:
A-Team 20.2, Z-Team 12.8

A-TEAM is the winner!

Thanks for participating, everyone. It was fun, particularly trying to cook up categories that would result in close legs.

I'm beginning to think the time bonus is perhaps too much a part of the calculation. Personally, I think if this is a race to determine who can run the shortest race, then a lot more emphasis needs to be placed on mileage accumulation, rather than time advantages. Perhaps the next time, it'll be a cumulative mileage race. If one team fails to post within 4 hours of the other, then the non-posting is penalized with double the mileage the other team got and starts next round where they failed to move from. Something like that.

[Wolfpack]

Dola...

Alternately, you could accumulate points based on how many miles your team is shorter than the other team, and then get a bonus for time advantage.

Other ideas?

[henry296]

I think perhaps the only time advantage could be for the team that posted first. In essence they were the first to arrive at their destination.

For the previous leg, I though of going all the way to St. Paul, MN ensuring that I would be closer for the next leg, but felt KC was a good middle point to try to win both legs.

[Mr. Wednesday]

I'm pretty you would have been closer to Chicago than we were to Minneapolis. I was trying to beat that and I didn't think I could, so I tried to come as close as I could.