This is how the Circumglobal Trophy Dash works:
As early as September we'll send you the complete set of maps and the book of round-the-world instructions.
We start mailing on September 5 for entries received by then, but you may enter any time before the entry deadline, Columbus Day - October 12.
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Note: Entries closed on Columbus Day for the 2009 Circumglobal Trophy Dash. Please check out our Almaniac trivia competition and next January's St. Valentine's Day Massacre map rally. Also, scroll to the bottom if you'd like to request advance information for next fall's Circumglobal Trophy Dash.
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You'll travel, at your kitchen table or wherever you want, an hour or two at a time whenever you want, on a continuous course around the world, all on maps, along highways and bush tracks, over mountains and across the seven seas.
Usually there's a challenge involved. Alertness counts. Along the way, you'll be asked questions to see if you're on the correct course.
You have until October 26 to send in your answers. Then custom-designed awards go to the top circumnavigators, those who've done the best in avoiding the bushwhackers and snares.
What kinds of instructions and questions? Here are two sets from this fall's competition:
In Casablanca:
Turn from Route de l'Oasis onto Avenue des Pléyades.
Do you then cross Allée whose name contains the letters R, I, C, K, and S?
In Fremantle, Australia:
Turn right on St. whose name contains two letters a, then turn left on High St.
Do you then see King and Queen?
Where would you like to go?
We'll take you around the world!
This year we're going to Panama and Morocco, then to Spain and England, then to the Arabian desert and onward to Australia, then to the site of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver (where you'll devise a new Olympic event, the One-and-a-Halflon -- a 1-myriameter cross-country skiing course with a half-end of curling at its midpoint), then home.
In 2005 we went to England and Pompeii, to New Delhi and New South Wales, across the Pacific to the Galapagos Islands, then home again!
In 2006 we went to Trinidad & Tobago, to England again, to Greece and Thailand, to Papua New Guinea, then across the Pacific home again!
In 2007 we went to Costa Rica, to Ghana, to Abu Dhabi, to Australia and Beijing, to the North Pole (!), then home again!
In 2008 we went to Guyana, to Côte d'Ivoire, to Scotland, to Russia, to Papua New Guinea one more time, then home again!
To the top competitors go custom-designed Circumglobal Trophy Dash awards.
Plus, local champion certificates go to the best from each state, province, and country.
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To receive a Circumglobal Trophy Dash brochure in the mail next August, in advance of the 2010 competition, just send The Old Maltese an e-mail request mentioning the Circumglobal Trophy Dash, with your street mailing address, or mail a note to us at:
This is how the Circumglobal Trophy Dash works: