The Scores are in…
Date: 13th Oct 2024
Author: Peter Tomlin
….for Day Prowl 2024
The last Day Prowl was held in 2018, so with Covid and cancellations due to events outside our control, we were looking forward to this annual friendly competition between teams of Scouts, Guides, Explorers, Rangers – and for the first time, a Network team.
What did we do differently from previous Day Prowl events?
Out
- old rules about points
- not knowing where lost teams might be
- teams needing to await (what seemed hours) for collection at bases at the end of the day
- no-one knowing who had won until a couple of days later
In
- new technology – trackers so we could pinpoint all teams
Observing team progress in real time
- bases doing arrival and departure times and scoring on spreadsheets (just needing to ensure separating numbers with colons!)
- communication with Bases using WhatsApp
- all routes leading to Checkpoint Zulu
- announce winners when all teams had finished
Base HQ highlights were:
- following one team going the wrong way around, accumulating a lot of negative points
- following the trackers on a big screen in real time
- seeing where the Network team went for lunch!
- going out and about visiting the bases and seeing the teams enjoying the day
If you were taking part – as a leader of a team, Base Commander or participant – what were your highlights? E-mail us: dayprowl@richmondscouts.org.uk Also, let us know how we could improve Day Prowl for next time – hopefully next year.
The Final Scores:
Scout/Guide teams
| Team | Team Type | Name | Final positions |
| 8 | Scouts / Guides | 10th Teddington | 1 |
| 6 | Accompanied | 2nd Mortlake | 2 |
| 42 | Scouts / Guides | 1st Richmond | 3 |
| 21 | Accompanied | 7th Hampton B | 4 |
| 39 | Scouts / Guides | 3rd HH A | 5 |
| 32 | Scouts / Guides | 3rd Hampton A | 6 |
| 40 | Scouts / Guides | 3rd HH B | 7 |
| 14 | Accompanied | 3rd Whitton B | 8 |
| 18 | Scouts / Guides | 13th Twick A | 9 |
| 24 | Scouts / Guides | 2nd Tedd B | 10 |
| 26 | Scouts / Guides | 1st Whitton A | 11 |
| 7 | Accompanied | P&H Phoenix II | 12 |
| 19 | Scouts / Guides | 13th Twick B | 13 |
| 27 | Accompanied | 1st Whitton B | 14 |
| 23 | Scouts / Guides | 2nd Tedd A | 15 |
| 20 | Accompanied | 7th Hampton A | 16 |
| 43 | Scouts / Guides | 10th Twick | 17 |
| 11 | Scouts / Guides | 2nd Whitton A | 18 |
| 25 | Accompanied | 6th Twick | 19 |
| 12 | Scouts / Guides | 2nd Whitton B | 20 |
Explorer/Ranger/Network teams
| Team | Team Type | Name | Final positions |
| 31 | Explorers / Rangers | Magellan B | 1 |
| 35 | Explorers / Rangers | Hampton B | 2 |
| 33 | Explorers / Rangers | Hampton C | 3 |
| 38 | Explorers / Rangers | Erik A C | 4 |
| 36 | Explorers / Rangers | Erik A A | 5 |
| 34 | Explorers / Rangers | Hampton A | 6 |
| 3 | Explorers / Rangers | Edmund H B | 7 |
| 10 | Network / Inspire | Network | 8 |
| 37 | Explorers / Rangers | Erik A B | 9 |
| 44 | Explorers / Rangers | Twickenham | 10 |
| 28 | Explorers / Rangers | Magellan A | 11 |
| 2 | Explorers / Rangers | Edmund H A | 12 |
| 9 | Explorers / Rangers | Shackleton | 13 |