Riding to Hounds Grand Tour

 

Riding to Hounds Grand Tour
March 15 - November 1, 2020

TeamStrange Grand Tours are all about having another excuse to go out and ride your motorcycle to new and unusual places. This year’s Grand Tour is called Riding to Hounds, because, you will be riding to hounds. And other beasts.

This Tour is inspired by the ancient upper-class British sport of fox hunting, which we are absolutely against in real life. On our Tour you won’t be hunting foxes, you’ll be looking for Dogs, Equestrians (that’s men or women on horses) and Foxes. To avoid taxing you with too much reading comprehension, you’ll be looking for statues of Dogs, Equestrians, and Foxes. You can find them wherever you can find them – literally the whole world is your hunting ground.

But 2020 is also the year of the very last Butt Lite rally. To commemorate that, we’re including a special bonus list, in Butt Lite format, of past Butt Lite rally bonuses that involved dogs or horses or foxes. You get two Grand Tours for the price of one!

So to summarize, the bonus locations for Riding To Hounds are:

  1. Statues of Dogs

  2. Statues of Equestrians

  3. Statues of Foxes

  4. Bonuses from the Riding to Hounds / Butt Lite Bonus List

Your entry includes a Grand Tour flag and sticker. Entry fee is $40 for one or two up. GT flags and stickers will be mailed around March 1, and thereafter, upon sign up.

Finishing will earn you bragging rights, an Official Riding to Hounds Grand Tour finisher pin, and entries in the prize pool. Finishers will receive one entry into the prize pool for each point they score.

The top finisher (based on point totals) will be declared the "Riding to Hounds Grand Tour Grand Champion" and will receive a commemorative plaque to document this amazing feat.

We recognize that, because of the pandemic and government restrictions imposed in response, some riders may be able to legally leave home, some riders may not be able to legally leave home, and some riders who can, may have good sense not to. The playing field is not level, and will not be level, this year. Therefore, Riding to Hounds will not award trophy positions and will not officially rank riders based on points. We will, however, score locations for the purpose of determining finishers of the Tour. We’ll tell you what your score is, but we won’t announce the scores, and we won’t rank riders based on scores.

To be a finisher you must accumulate at least 200 points by visiting bonus locations between March 15, 2020, through March 23, 2020, or May 30, 2020, through November 1, 2020, and documenting your visits. Point values are:

  1. Dogs: 10 points each

  2. Equestrians: 5 points each

  3. Foxes: 30 points each

  4. RTH / Butt Lite bonuses: 20 points each

Registration is open now! Sign up via Ride Master.

Complete rules can be found HERE.

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