2014 Grand Tour Theme

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(01-14-2014 05:49 PM)UncleLumpy Wrote:  Had another idea while looking for doubled letters. Every year, or at least the couple of years I've been doing GLMC GTs, there is a restriction against using the same city name two or more times. Welllll, what if in 2015 we go the other way? There are a bunch of Greenvilles, Franklins, Clintons, etc. How about a GT where you MUST get multiples of a name where the points escalate based on the number of times you get a single name? For example, let's say a person decides to get all of the 25 Madisons (according to Wikipedia) in the U.S. You'd get 1 point each for the first 5 Madisons you document, 2 points each for the next 5 Madisons you document, and 3 points each for the rest for a total of 60 possible points if you indeed get them all. You MUST visit at least 2 instances of a city to get any points and you must be able to document that you actually visited those cities in different states. This probably means a lot of Post Office photos as there aren't too many places with the city and state name on the sign. Routing would get interesting if one goes after multiple city strands...

Just another idea...

Lumpy

Have to take scoring into account. Scoring that sounds like a nightmare.