Tube Olympics 2008

[Soup Dragon]

Ollie, you must make the time and find the cash. We want as many people and teams as possible for the full network attempt on Thursday 24th July.

[palkanetoijala31]

Well Mr Soup Dragon i now have the day off and the Friday as well just in case Whoopie

[Soup Dragon]

OK here is a recap of the upcoming events, please PM me with what events you would like to enter so I can start to get some idea of who many competitors and teams in each event.

11 July - All Lines Challenge, followed by opening ceremony.
15 July - Bottle Challenge
17 July - Zone 1 Challenge
19 July - Random 15 Challenge
22 July - DLR Challenge
24 July - Full Network Challenge
25 July - Closing ceremony and certificate presentations for Full Network.

So the first event is the All Lines taking place on Friday 11th July. The rules are as follows:

1. The challenge will commence at 18:30. (you may not start any earlier than this)
2. You can start at whatever station you like (there will be no formal meeting point beforehand)
3. You will have 2.5 hours to make as many attempts as you like.
4. Your final attempt must have commenced before 21:00.
5. You can abort and restart as many times as you like.
6. You must use all 11 Underground lines to constitute an attempt, i.e. You can't ride 3 stations on the Met line and claim Met, Circle and H&C.
7. You only need to register the best time you have achieved.
8. Once you have completed your final attempt head to the Horse & Groom to hand in your time.

[palkanetoijala31]

i will register my interest for random 15 and full challenge and ending ceremony shame i cant defend my dlr part record on the tuesday never mind i hope the system crashes no i hope u do well and have a lot of fun on the others that i cant make.

[Going Underground]

8. Once you have completed your final attempt head to the Horse & Groom to hand in your time.

The URL has been blocked at work! :S Presumably this is the Z1 pub?

I am down for the All Lines, Z1 and Full Network. On the full network I am out with joy54 and palkne..., and we have a shock starting station for you all. You won't see us at Amersham for we are starting at... Chiswick Park!* (just to get it out of the way after last time)

Actually, I have a niggling foot injury that I obtained last Friday (I walked to work - 9.5 miles - due to a small cash flow issue) and has been getting steadily worse. I'm hoping it goes away in the next few weeks!

* possible lie

That's the pub..... I am just doing one all lines attempt then straight there for a few ales and give you boys a damn good thrashing at darts again........


I was on fire last night won my singles in 17 darts.....

[Going Underground]

If you get there first you may be able to team up with that random guy for a few legs with the locals while everyone else is still on the challenge

I have just swapped shifts to 4pm finishes, so I'll be ready and waiting at Paddington* from about 4.30pm waiting for the start to come round!

* another possible lie

I would get some darts practice in if I was you....

[Root]

I might try knocking a logo up later, either a new concept or a cleaned-up version of that one.

Or, if I'm feeling particularly horrible, it'll be a modification of the official logo! Argh!

[Soup Dragon]

My plan was to tidy up the logo where the ribbon goes through the 08 and also where the ribbon connects with the tube lines. Apart from that I think its a good logo. Ollie feel free to tidy this up or design a new one, I haven't done any certificates yet so we can always change the logo (as long as it's nothing like the horrible London 2012 logo).

[joy54]

I'm still not too sure about SD's logo although it hasn't been tidyed up yet, but I was messing about and made the following:

[Soup Dragon]

Knocked up a new logo this afternoon, any comments?

[joy54]

Yeh thats exactly the sort of thing I was thinking of in my first logo post, excellent!!

[Going Underground]

If I can afford the travelcards I'm doing all events except the DLR now - plus I've taken Friday post-Full Network off for recovery!

11 days until the opening ceremony!

Ditto for me as well.........

[Soup Dragon]

Here's another take on the new Tube Olympic's logo.

[tubeguru]

Come on folks - at least the London Olympic Committee chose their crappy design four years in advance ...

[Soup Dragon]

Well as the "Tube Olympics Supreme Administrator" or TOSA for short, I have decided to adopt my own design with the 5 Roundel Rings (Sorry Ollie but your logo was rejected by TOSA). The 5 ring logo be used for all 6 events, but as with the London 2012 logo it can take on various different guises. Hope this settles the logo debate....