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Kenilworth Phoenix Explorers win the Sedan Chair Rally

Phoenix, Kenilworth ESU attended the national Sedan Chair Rally competition for Explorer Scouts at Tolmers camp site over the weekend of 19/20/21 October.

The competition involves building a sedan chair and making costumes on a selected them, and then racing the chair (with a rider) around a tough course, that includes 5 incidents or extra activities that need to be completed on the way.

Prizes are awarded in a variety of different categories, including best constructed chair, best dressed team, best finishing chair, and fastest team around the course. Points collected in the different categories are added to points awarded for the extra incidents and an overall winner is then decided. As such this event is an all round test of many different factors, and not purely a simple race, and as such requires a huge amount of effort to do well in.

Phoenix first attended the Sedan Chair rally in 2006, and came a creditable 17th overall, and managed to get a 2nd place certificate in one of the categories.

In 2007 they put the experience gained from 2006 to good use, and did a little better, coming back with :

• First Place in Best Designed and Constructed Chair.

• First Place in Most Topical Chair

• Second Place in Best Dressed Team

• Third Place in Best Finishing Chair

• And were the Overall Event Winners !

To see a photo of the team with the trophy please go to the Phoenix main site at: http://www.geocities.com/phoenixexplorers/homepage.html

To learn more about the Sedan Chair Rally go to the official site at: http://www.sedanchair.org.uk/

(Photos from the 2007 rally should be on the site during the Christmas holidays when the webmaster has time to do it! There are plenty to look at now from earlier years)

To see what else Phoenix have been doing in the past and what they have planned for the future please visit the Phoenix calendar site at: http://www.ja.cobra.btinternet.co.uk/PoloSys/Index.html

Phoenix hope that other units in Warwickshire will want to attend this competition next year. If you are interested in this, or want to know anything else about Phoenix, please email PoloSys@btinternet.com