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Wrap Up

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2024 Wrap Up  And just like last year, at the stroke of midnight on 30 September, the 2024 Grand Tour was over.  Actually, it was on the stroke of 15:00 on 01 October here on the east coast of Oz, but you know what I mean. Recently, the final scores were announced.  Bill Collins has been awarded 1st Place with a score of 679 bonus points, not so closely followed by Pat MacRoy on 176 and Charles Snyder on 175. click on image to enlarge Of note, about a third of all the riders who submitted photos for scoring seemed to have missed the requirement for including a bonus tally sheet / list, as mentioned in The Rules.   If "plan the ride / ride the plan" is the No. 1 rally mantra, then perhaps "read the instructions, twice" should be No. 2. Mr. Collin's score of 679 is simply incredible and is just so far ahead of everyone else that it should be considered exceptional.    I am not sure there are even that many "compass" towns in all of Oz, so I "  dips ...