Zone 1 Challenge Cup 2024- Friday 31st May

[ANDY_JS]

The results of the Zone 1 Challenge Cup 2024 held on Friday 31st May 2024.

The start station was Borough- as chosen by David JS

There were 17 challengers split into 12 teams.

12th: Andy JS- 03:55:31 at Battersea Power Station (no team name submitted).
11th: "Solo Enthusiast" (Muadh Zeroual)- 03:35:02 at Paddington (Bishop's Road).
10th: "Hull Yeah Borough, That was Morden a Challenge" (Kevin Brown, Damian & Izzy Cook)- 03:31:59 at Battersea Power Station.
9th: "It's not a Second but Seven Minutes Away" (Tangy)- 03:23:13 at Charing Cross.
8th: "Rotten Borough: Kier Gardens or Rishimond?" (Ian McIntyre and Ian Imrie)- 03:23:07 at London Bridge.
7th: "Portaloo & Shitty" (Rob Mansell and Stephen Pointer)- 03:19:47 at Elephant & Castle.
6th: "ChippenHammersmith" (Leonard House and Lucy Angell)- 03:19:32 at Battersea Power Station.
5th: Richard Standing- 03:17:43 at Lambeth North (no team name submitted).
4th: "Oxford Tube" (Lewis Nagle)- 03:07:06 at Charing Cross.
3rd: "Barbicanheimer" (James Ramsbottom)- 03:01:59 at St. Paul's.
2nd: "Been on Rail Overground Underground Goodge Hell" (Andi James)- 02:57:11 at Russell Square.
1st: "Barb and my Connector Blob" (Milo Ogidel)- 02:57:01 at Elephant & Castle. NEW ZONE 1 WORLD RECORD.

Best team name was judged as "Oxford Tube" by Lewis Nagle.

Best score in the quiz was 36/50 by Richard Standing.

Thank you all for attending and hopefully see you again next year!

Tangy.
The BOZO (Boss of Zone One).

It's really surprising (in a good way) that the two fastest times ever were set from a start at Borough which doesn't seem like a good place to start for a Zone One Challenge. Suggests that a faster time might be possible when you can choose where to start, perhaps.

[RJSRdg]

Yes, Borough is a slightly surprising one.

Many Challengers pre-plan a circular route so that they have a route which works irrespective of which starting station has been chosen.

For a cir4cular route, the fastesr time would be from a station at either end of the longest OSI (as you then wouldn't have to do the OSI).

So I would suggest either Vauxhall or Battersea Power Station would be the start for the theoretical fastest time.

[Lunaticonthegrass]

Yes, I'm a little surprised that some very fast time was set from Borough as well. But two things should be pointed out:

1. Circular routes currently work pretty well for Zone 1, so it shouldn't matter that much where the start is.

2. Although 2 of the times set from Borough were very fast, a lot were much slower.

[ANDY_JS]

Don't want to start a new thread just for one post so thought I'd use this one to say that on 3rd March (2025) I completed the Zone One challenge in a time of 2 hours 59 mins 26.16 secs. Was heading for a possible record but got a relatively long wait at a station near the end. Planning to try the same route again as soon as possible with maybe one or two very minor changes.