Zone 1 Challenge Cup 2024- Friday 31st May

[tangy]

The prestigious Zone 1 Challenge Cup is this year being held on Friday 31st May 2024.

The aim is simple: visit all 67 stations on the London Underground system that are within Oyster card Zone 1 in the fastest time. You will be competition with other teams (and the trains themselves) for the coveted Zone One Challenge Cup. All teams will start from the same station at the same time and the start station is not known until 45 minutes before the challenge...

Why not come along and try to beat the current record which currently stands at 02:57:53.

The format remains unchanged however full details of the event (including meet up location, timetable of the day, rules of the challenge and after event quiz) can be found on the dedicated website at http://www.explorerticket.co.uk/tubecha ... ne1cup.htm

Even though this is an open invitation event, it would greatly assist me if you notify me of your attendance at the event (even if you are at this stage a maybe). Contact details are on the website (see link above), leave a message on the Random 15 Facebook group page or just post below... whatever is easier for you!

If running around the Tube is not really your thing (or you sadly cannot join us during the daytime), after the challenge we all meet up for a social and there will be a pub style quiz, again with prizes available, which you may prefer instead. Participation in the pub quiz/after event social is not dependent on you doing the actual challenge.

Hope to see many of you there, be it a first timer or a regular challenger that shows up year after year.

Thanks
Tangy
BOZO (Boss Of Zone One).

[Lunaticonthegrass]

Attending: Lotg

[Oggm]

Attending: Lotg, Oggm

[Going Underground]

Attending: Lotg, Oggm, GU (for some crazy reason unknown)

[al]

Attending: Lotg, Oggm, GU (for some crazy reason unknown)

FOMO is the only reason I can think of

[Lunaticonthegrass]

Attending: Lotg, Oggm, GU (for some crazy reason unknown)

FOMO is the only reason I can think of

Fear Of Missing Out (one of the 67 stations).

[Going Underground]

Attending: Lotg, Oggm, GU (for some crazy reason unknown)

FOMO is the only reason I can think of

Fear Of Missing Out (one of the 67 stations).

Which I have done when it was 64 and having set a new PB, Soup Dragon realised on the train home I had missed TCR

[miklcct]

I would like to but I work Mon - Fri.

[Lunaticonthegrass]

Can you not get time off work? I'm taking a day of annual to come, and I'm sure I won't be the only one.

[Going Underground]

I would like to but I work Mon - Fri.

wow can't be many of us that do that

[Oggm]

Is NHG and BPS still in the ballot? I'm pretty sure they were used in 2022/2023. But, according to explorerticket, they haven't been drawn out previously.

[tangy]

Is NHG and BPS still in the ballot? I'm pretty sure they were used in 2022/2023. But, according to explorerticket, they haven't been drawn out previously.

No, those stations have already been drawn thus will not be the starting station this year.

I will correct the website to reflect this.

[Lunaticonthegrass]

Since someone's almost certain to ask, here are the previous starting stations (copied from Tufnellpark's comment a few years ago and update):

2004 Vauxhall
2005 St James Park
2006 Sloane Square
2007 Westminster
2008 Kings Cross
2009 Angel
2010 Waterloo
2011 St Paul's
2012 Aldgate East
2013 Regents Park
2014 Lancaster Gate
2015 London Bridge
2016 Edgware Road (Circle)
2017 Warren Street
2018 Chancery Lane
2019 Mansion House
2020 [No contest]
2021 [No contest]
2022 Notting Hill Gate
2023 Battersea Power Station

[Oggm]

What will we do in 2073?!?! - Providing that the BLE wouldn't add any new Z1 stations.

[al]

I'm sure the participants would cope with a Vauxhall start at that point