Seventh aMAZEing Ballarat 7 December 2013 Report and Results

On a beautiful day in Ballarat, 21 teams took to the streets and parks for the 7^th Annual aMAZEing Ballarat to raise funds for Ballarat Health Services and the Balladonors, who support Relay for Life.  Many of the regular teams had one thing in mind – “how to knock off the Magpies?”  Their husbands even entered a team this year in an endeavor to sabotage their performance but to no avail, the champion girls won again. The clues had most scratching their heads early on, but soon all headed out to play a game of Mollky – a Finnish stick game, attempt to estimate the weight of a gold specimen in troy ounces, row the Olympic course on Lake Wendouree on a rowing machine, scout for photographs around the city, play scrabble in the Titanic bandstand, and even visit a tattoo parlour for a stencil. As usual the organisers, Mark and Blake, invented some reasons for classes and were able to distribute many of the now famous mugs, which allow winners to declare themselves truly aMAZEing. In addition to supporting two main causes, more than 15 plum puddings will be donated to Breezeway who feed many of the homeless in Ballarat all year round, and a host of raffle tickets have been collected, which if any happen to win will give Balladonors a chance to raffle the prizes again. Eureka Orienteers are very grateful for the volunteers who manned the activities and the business owners who so readily agreed to be part of this year’s event.  Don’t forget the event will be on again in 2014, mark the first Saturday in December in your diary now.

2013 aMAZEing Ballarat Results

  Pushers and Kids

Place	Team	Score
1	Noah’s Team	812
2	Epic	642
3	Balazantine & Bub	622
4	Nuts	584
5	WWIN	471

  Competitive

Place	Team	Score
1	The Magpies	928 1st Overall
2	Trece	856 3rd Overall
3	I thought you said left	832
4	Noname	812
5	Spinning Wild	532

  Melbourne +

Place	Team	Score
1	3Ps & Her	780
2	Dos	719
3	Cruise Control	704
4	BK Roo	448
5	Albacutya	283

  Best of the Rest

Place	Team	Score
1	Ash Craven	895 2nd Overall
2	Team W	782
3	Where are we exactly	723
4	Don’t confuse me with directions	629
5	2 Saints & Magpie	393
6	Ryan & Pope	292