HUNT CHALLENGES

(by JayMen)

Challenges in a hunt break the routine by providing a physical aspect to a mind game. They also impose a shift in tempo to the rhythm of the team.

Not doing the challenge well half way through a hunt will sometimes throw off mentally weak teams. Doing them well raises the morale. Challenges also come in non physical forms as when solving puzzles and quizzes, where a different mental approach is needed.

There have been many good arguments put forth by passionate hunters both for and against the nature of challenges in hunts.

HOSPICE HUNT CHARIS-HED BY ALL

GEORGETOWN 19 MAR 2011: Prior to Charis Hospice Hunt for Charity 2011 on 19^th Mar 2011, the diagnosis was not very promising. Die-hard Penang hunters were discreetly suffering in silence; their periodic groan of anxiety was all too familiar. It has been almost 6 months since the last Penang hunt that some have categorically given up waiting.

The hunt withdrawal symptoms seemed to have affected the most ardent fans; even the injection of a sporadic hunt in the Pearl of the Orient can only provide transient relief for the addiction. During 2010 and early 2011, the usual annual hunts in the north have somehow dwindled down to a trickle.

The Rapid Penang Hunt and Coyote Hunt were coincidentally delayed; the FIZ Hunt 2010 was mysteriously cancelled at the eleventh hour; Penang Food Hunt was postponed again for the 2^nd year running and Mensa Eye-Q Hunt was magically teleported to Klang Valley. And then to cap it all, most KL outstation hunts were either heading south or east; purportedly evading northern region as if it’s a leper colony.

INDEPENDENT VS PAKATAN – SHOWDOWN IN KK?

KOTA KINABALU 27 FEB 2011: Since the fateful March 2008 political tsunami in Malaysia, the escalating number of by-elections has gradually unveiled itself as a Trojan horse; touted at first as a gift of democratic rights for the people; now unmasked more as a political avenue for the parties to gauge their popularity and triumphantly thump their chests.

With the tendency of some frail politicians to proverbially kick the bucket and the 16^th by-election just recently over, one may be forgiven for naturally assuming that the ‘Independent vs Pakatan – Showdown in KK?’ could be the headline for the 17^th.

Thankfully, it’s not! However it may unfortunately describe an age-old hunt malaise, which has allegedly reared its ugly head in the recent 10^th KK City Tourism Treasure Hunt 2011 (as claimed and hotly debated here).