ATALANTA ENDURANCE QUALIFIERS - WINNERS ANNOUNCED

ATALANTA ENDURANCE QUALIFIERS - WINNERS ANNOUNCEDThanks for participating, everyone! I'll be noting the group and your prizes will be made available to you shortly.
First place: 
40 000  RDS
5 training sessions by elsevier (30 AP points to your cat)
One Gold Level SPC to any of your cats
 
Owned by DaxDaxWolfy 
Second place:
30 000  RDS
one silk brush
3 training sessions by elsevier (18 AP points to your cat)
One Silver Level SPC to any of your cats
 
Third place:
 
20 000  RDS
3 training sessions by elsevier (18 AP points to your cat)
One Silver Level SPC to any of your cats
UNPLACED/EXTENDED RANKING
  (tied for 4th)
Owned by WolfZSoul   ATALANTA ENDURANCE QUALIFIERS - WINNERS ANNOUNCEDThanks for participating, everyone! I'll be noting the group and your prizes will be made available to you shortly.
First place: 
40 000  RDS
5 training sessions by elsevier (30 AP points to your cat)
One Gold Level SPC to any of your cats
 
Owned by DaxDaxWolfy 
Second place:
30 000  RDS
one silk brush
3 training sessions by elsevier (18 AP points to your cat)
One Silver Level SPC to any of your cats
 
Third place:
 
20 000  RDS
3 training sessions by elsevier (18 AP points to your cat)
One Silver Level SPC to any of your cats
UNPLACED/EXTENDED RANKING
  (tied for 4th)
Owned by WolfZSoul  ATALANTA ENDURANCE QUALIFIERS - WINNERS ANNOUNCEDThanks for participating, everyone! I'll be noting the group and your prizes will be made available to you shortly.
First place: 
40 000  RDS
5 training sessions by elsevier (30 AP points to your cat)
One Gold Level SPC to any of your cats
 
Owned by DaxDaxWolfy 
Second place:
30 000  RDS
one silk brush
3 training sessions by elsevier (18 AP points to your cat)
One Silver Level SPC to any of your cats
 
Third place:
 
20 000  RDS
3 training sessions by elsevier (18 AP points to your cat)
One Silver Level SPC to any of your cats
UNPLACED/EXTENDED RANKING
  (tied for 4th)
Owned by WolfZSoul 

Three different race, three different places: one set of winners. 

Once a year the Atalanta Endurance Alliance publishes their rankings of the top cats in the endurance racing world. They host three races in the three most brutal, challenging environments they can find. Cats and riders can only enter one race. The beast with the best time out of all three races is crowned champion. So where will your cat succeed?

The Atalanta Endurance Alliance welcomes all shedus: djibbs, komainus, asians, crosses, and classics both heavy and slim. Cats must be OERS [official-bred or fake papered].

Participation Badges:

Judging

Stats [50%] + items + effort [50%] 

ALL ENTRIES MUST BE COLORED FULL-BODIES WITH HANDLERS AND BACKGROUND.

Stats Needed: Speed, Stamina, Strength, Surefoot, Temperament
* cats do not need to have stats revealed in order to participate

Items Available at the Shedu Item Shop
 Food Supplements II
 Blinker Hood
 Fly Spray
 Muzzle

Effort [50%]:

+ 10 for a full-body training image [must be for this race]
+ 10 for 300 word story
+ 10 for appopriate weather/background/tack
+ 10 for including a competitor [competitor must have own entry]
+ 10 for including an animal native to the region you're racing in
+ 10 for advertising via journal or poll
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60 possible [but only 50 will count]

Entry Form

Shedu Name: [please include link to import sheet]
Handler Name:
Cattery Name:
Stats: [if known]
Items: [if applied]
Effort bonuses: [please include links to advertising journal or training image]

Other

Judging occurs on the first of every other month. There must be at least five entries to run! 

Collaborations are welcome. Each collaborator may include one cat in the entry. Cats in a collaborative entry may have very different overall placings.

Maximum cats in one entry: 3. Competitor cats [who have their own entry] do not count against the overall number.

First Run: March 1st - April 30th, 2015
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 15TH, 2015

There will be one list of winners. You won't know who placed first in each race, but rather what the overall rankings are [sort of like the PB results]. Think of this as a national ranking list, comparing scores from different races but having one overall ranking.

Example Scoreboard:
  Miss Kittypaws 1234 scored 98 points at Death Valley <-------- 3rd Place
  That One Cat 8845 scored 74 points at Spine of the Rockies
  Hiss Hiss Bang Bang 7482 scored 82 points at Spine of the Rockies
  Furball Fury 4942 scored 115 points at Deep South <-------- 1st Place
  Claw Kisser 2365 scored 111 points at Deep South <--------- 2nd Place

Prizes

First place: 

40 000  RDS
5 training sessions by elsevier (30 AP points to your cat)
One Gold Level SPC to any of your cats

Second place:

30 000  RDS
one silk brush
3 training sessions by elsevier (18 AP points to your cat)
One Silver Level SPC to any of your cats

Third place:

20 000  RDS
3 training sessions by elsevier (18 AP points to your cat)
One Silver Level SPC to any of your cats

Death Valley

A 130 mile trek through a hellish desert course. Look out for scorpions, mirages, and long stretches where you'll wonder if you're the last of humanity. The path goes across wide stretches of sand, through narrow canyons and gullies, and along a blacktop highway. Checkpoints every twenty miles, but riders should carry some water to prevent disaster. This is the lowest, driest, hottest place in America. 

Date: April 13th
Weather: The morning and afternoon will be in the low 70° (Farenheit), but by midafternoon the temperature will push 90°. Evening racers will experience a rapid drop in temperature to as low as 50°, with flash flood warnings in gullies and canyons.

Start: Lone Pine, CA
Midpoints: Waucoba Mountain, Grapevine Peak, Badwater Basin
End: Telescope Peak

Choose a Time:
Heat I: Early Morning
Heat II: Midday
Heat III: Late Afternoon

Inspiration:

Spine of the Rockies

It's 130 miles through snow, ice, and mountains. Cat and rider may see anything from moose to mountain goats, mountain lions to porcupines. The path weaves through heavy wooded areas, meadows, high peaks, creeks, and low lake valleys. There are checkpoints every twenty miles, but riders should carry supplies. This is some of the highest elevation, rugged terrain in America.

Date: September 13th
Weather: There's frost on the ground in the morning, and an early morning blizzard has left six inches of snow on the highest elevations. The high for today is 35°. Beware wind chill warnings pushing the ambient air temperature closer to 0°. Montana is infamous for rapidly changing conditions, and while there may be flowers at one elevation there is snow in those mountains.

Start: Dillon, MT
Midpoints: Lone Mountain, Big Sky, Yellowstone River
End: Granite Peak

Choose a Time:
Heat I: Early Morning
Heat II: Midday
Heat III: Late Afternoon

Inspiration:

Deep South

Can you survive 130 miles through the bayou? You'll be headed into the water on this ride, and some of it will be murky. Watch out for alligators. The footing is prone to being muddy. The path skirts the coast and criss-crosses through the delta regions. The humidity will be at 100%. There are checkpoints every twenty miles, but riders should carry supplies.

Date: June 13th
Weather: Rain, rain, and more rain. There's fog in the morning and again in the late afternoon. The footing is extremely unstable, so make sure to watch for course flags where guides have market out hazards.

Start: Abbeville, LA
Midpoints: Vermillion Bay, Shell Island Pass, Pointe Aux Chenes Wildlife Refuge


End: Galliano, LA

Choose a Time:
Heat I: Early Morning
Heat II: Midday
Heat III: Late Afternoon

Inspiration: