The Tube Challenge

Without agreeing or disagreeing with the above, I do wonder about the future of Zone 1 considering only 24 people attended the event a low not seen since the inaugural, really unadvertised, 2004 Zone 1 Challenge. Is this because of the "factions" that have sprung up which leave people feel...

My prediction is as follows: Con - 305 Lab - 225 LD - 85 Others - 35 (With the largest parties by no. of seats being as follows: DUP, SNP, SF, PC & SDLP) From the above, I predict a Conservative-LD coalition of some sorts. Whether that be full integration with certain cabinet positions being giv...

When the ELL comes back into play, will you be able to try and beat the Brown's 18:20:26 time which was for 274 stations excluding Shoreditch?

Couldn't you do the points based on Zones i.e. 1 point for Zone 1, 2 points for Zone 2 etc. which would increase the route planning element of the challenge?

jamesthegill wrote:I may not be able to make it to the knockout round (which is optimistic for me) but I should be ok for the lunchtime bit.

Lunchtime drinking then a gig in Harlow, this isn't gonna end well...

Ditto. (Except the gig in Harlow)

geofftech wrote:yes it is! and always has done, i think.

have you got any pictures of your attempts or links to sites that i can use?

I don't think I have any pictures from that particular attempt left anymore unfortunately.

I can take a shot of my certificate if you need to put a photo up next to the entry?

tubeguru wrote:

joy54 wrote:... the third longest in recent history behind Geoff on 755 days ...

*sigh*

...and Neil

Well done Sam!! Amazing effort, I know how difficult it can be out there on your own juggling 3 or 4 things at once. Mine and Andi's record stood for 498 days, the third longest in recent history behind Geoff on 755 days and Jack on 688 days. During those 498 days, 25 separate record attempts were m...

Hey Geoff, your page is missing my February 2004 attempt which garnered a time of 18:47:57, in between Jack's and your's.

Decided at very short notice I was going to attend and teamed up with Edgemaster at Clapham. We ran down the stairs at Clapham Common straight onto a northbound Northern Line and hoped that Clapham South wasn't in the hat. Thankfully it wasn't and we quickly came up with a rough route and refined it...

Should there not be some kind of requirement for new record claimants to give some kind of evidence that their record attempt did indeed occur and their time is valid. for it to appear on Matt's site. I reckon we can be sure veterans of the forum can be trusted but should new claimants be just belie...

Oh thats good as I put your name down as Andi on our claim to Guinness. Which I assume will be what is on the new certificate!

I remember Hakan telling me that on any single attempt he makes using his current route created using the genetic algorithm, he calculated he has a 30% change of breaking the current record held by myself and Andi. Now of course no one other than Hakan does not have access to his "optimum"...

That was fun wasn't it :P I made my usual school boy error of doubling back at Kennington to get to Waterloo and thinking in me head, Charing X branch, Charing X branch... I made a similar school boy error at Bank, getting on a NB Northern instead of a SB. Ended up at Moorgate with an 8 minute wait...

Mitchell&BrownLook wrote:So hang on, are you saying that if Hakan breaks your record on Monday the 28th of September, you are planning to get it back the following day?

I'm not quite sure what to make of that!

That would knock the 8 days I held the GWR once, right out of the park.