Tic-Tac-Toe Trail Party

🏃‍♂️ Tic-Tac-Toe Trail Party

This race is a beginner friendly twist on the traditional trail run. It will be held at 1North Adventure Trails in Blanchard. TTTTP is a different format than your traditional race. It's designed to make running fun by utilizing a game you’ve known since childhood....tic-tac-toe. You will be timed and your distance will be recorded but there will be no age groups and no overall winners. The goal is 3 X's in a row but there will be other ways to win as well.

📜 The Rules

• First loop: The runner will roll a 6 sided die that has an equal # of X's and O's. If the player rolls an X, then the player gets to decide where an X is placed on their tic-tac-toe bib. If a player rolls an O, the worker puts an O on the tic-tac-toe bib. Yes, they will be instructed to block you and no amount of begging on your part will dissuade them.
• Second loop: The worker will hold their fists out in front of them. One fist contains an X and the other an O: you must choose. You get X, you pick where it goes, you get O, the worker selects. Once again no whining, they’re gonna be mean.
• Third loop: Worker flips a coin with an X and an O. They’ll give you an option to reveal the coin in the palm or flip onto the back of their hand and reveal. You get what you get and you don’t throw a fit.
• Marking: X's will be marked with black sharpies (provided) and O's with red sharpies (provided).

🏆 Ways to Win

• 1st back with 3 X's in-a-row and no O's: $50
• 1st back with a tic-tac-toe: $25 (this will probably be a person with three X's but in the case it isn't...I’ll allow an O).
• 1st back with 4 corners (4 X's with one in each corner): $25
• 1st back with an X of X's: $25
• 1st back with an X of O's: $25
• 8 of a kind (X's or 8 O's): Free Race Entry
• 1st back with CAT: $50 (Every box has an X or an O and no 3 in a row)
• 1st back with 3 O's: I will instruct volunteers not to give you 3 O's in a row. This shouldn’t happen.

🥤 Course Details

I don’t think this will be a real technical course. However, the elevation is real, especially for this part of Louisiana! There will be an aid station at the Start/Finish area. While it won’t be a full on “Ultra quality” aid station because this isn’t an Ultra: it will have more than you’d expect to find on a road course. I anticipate offering water at the turn-around point of each trail (the game table) but that table isn’t far from the start/finish so it won’t be a full on aid station. I'm also looking for volunteers for the game table and I am offering race credits to future events.

🎉 Finish Line Fun

I’m thinking cake and ice cream at the finish. Also, it’s BYOB and if you do that, then BRDAB.

I am pricing triathlon bib belts as a giveaway—that’s the plan—will say “TIC-TAC-TOE TRAIL PARTY” on it.

📅 Packet Pickup

PPU will be at the Run Wild store in Shreveport on Thursday 10/16 and Friday 10/17 from 10 am til 6 pm.

🔗 More Information

For more details and to register, visit Tic-Tac-Toe Trail Party.