A new season of GxLeague is forming, for play beginning in late January. The turnout for our first season was underwhelming :-( but I've never let that stop me before ;-). Let's hope this season is different.
What is GxLeague, you ask? It's a competitive but friendly way to geocache.
Players are divided into teams. Teams play each other in a series of games. After all teams have played all other teams once and only once, the season is over. The team with the best record wins the GxLeague Championship.
Teams win a game by scoring more points than their opponents. Players score points by placing caches, by finding caches, and by having other players find caches they have placed.
A player who hides one or more caches during a game can score up to ten points per game (the sum of the difficulty and terrain ratings of the toughest cache). (GxLeague encourages quality caches, not quantity).
A player who finds one or more caches during a game can score up to ten points per cache (the sum of each cache's difficulty and terrain ratings).
A player also scores points each time one of the scoring caches he or she placed any time during the season is found and logged by anyone else, so long as the other person is not a player on his or her own team. For each such find, the hider scores up to five points, depending on the overall rating the finder gives the cache hunting experience.
That's it. Scoring is automatic. Just list your caches on GPSgames.org as you place them. Search the GPSgames.org cache listings for caches near you. Log each one you find on GPSgames.org. The game engine automatically credits your team with your hides and finds. And when other players find a cache you hid, your team gets credit. All automatically. Just sign up and go geocaching. It's that easy.