Just noticed at http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/livetravelnew ... 059248_TfL regarding London Overground closures that it notes towards the bottom that "there will be no service between Richmond and Stratford most weekends until May 2011." Which, for the London Overground round, will likely take out the whole North London Line (looks as if it might be hard to get much notice on when it will be open). This is in addition to the complete closure of the Gospel Oak to Stratford section which ends on 31 May. It also notes engeneering works taking place on "some weekends between Gospel Oak and Barking (until May 2011)".
Looks as if we'll have a difficult time finding a weekend when the NLL isn't completely closed (and if we do, we may not have much notice).
Still, I think waiting until June is a good idea to do the final round of the R15 with the London Overground stations. And I think the 5th round should be in April to give a gap of 2 months between each round.
Now is IMO a good time for the BERC to set up a poll for the date of the 5th round in April.
It will be difficult to find a weekend that the Overground is totally open. However, most closures are on a Sunday and the full network is often open on a Saturday. I don't think it will be too much of an issue.
JoeGJ1984 wrote:I seem to remember somebody taking a video of the BERC announcing the results - any chance of somebody putting it up on youtube or somewhere?
As a matter of curiosity, what happens if several different participants/teams finish at the same station on the same train? Because they would in theory have the exact same times, but in practice, the times are likely to be a bit different (depending on everybody's accuracy with the stopwatch). I noticed on the last round, there were several equal times. Did the people actually mention the same time to the second? How is this done? (Because it would be unfair for somebody to win over somebody else finishing at the same actual time, but ending up with a time of 1 second faster).
JoeGJ1984 wrote:As a matter of curiosity, what happens if several different participants/teams finish at the same station on the same train? Because they would in theory have the exact same times, but in practice, the times are likely to be a bit different (depending on everybody's accuracy with the stopwatch). I noticed on the last round, there were several equal times. Did the people actually mention the same time to the second? How is this done? (Because it would be unfair for somebody to win over somebody else finishing at the same actual time, but ending up with a time of 1 second faster).
All of the teams will use the fastest time recorded
Holder of the slowest recorded 274 attempt: 4 months, 1 day, 9 hours, 17 minutes, 32 seconds.
You will also get different times because not all teams use the same door positions or carriages. My time for the R15 in question was actually 1 second quicker than the other teams, so on this occasion we took the time of the majority of teams.
Also, stopwatches aren't 'perfect' so it's quite possible (though perhaps not in the scope of a 2-hour challenge) that even if they were started and stopped EXACTLY simultaneously they would show different times.
A very good point proved on the Tube Olympics R15 recently. Of course everyones watch was started at the same time but when I finished the challenge I found my watch said I had completed the challenge six minutes faster than other teams who alighted with me on the same train!
tangy wrote:A very good point proved on the Tube Olympics R15 recently. Of course everyones watch was started at the same time but when I finished the challenge I found my watch said I had completed the challenge six minutes faster than other teams who alighted with me on the same train!
First and so far only female solo record holder!! 
