Who Squares Wins!

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57.5 Degrees of Pain 20 Aug 7:31pm, 20 Aug 2024 20,416 posts	0 57.5 Degrees of Pain Gooner wrote:I can only actually get to 130 of my squares so it always makes playing someone who lives in an area like the above quite challenging to say the least. I can usually get to 150 or so, I did my Gridmaster run at my mum's after very careful plotting to avoid railway land an inaccessible farm.
Gooner 20 Aug 7:33pm, 20 Aug 2024 20,278 posts	0 Gooner I fear that I don't have enough dedication to the cause to find somewhere to stay and take the bike in order to get that badge...yet...
Chicken 🐔 Legs 20 Aug 7:37pm, 20 Aug 2024 207 posts	0 Chicken 🐔 Legs I did think it's technically possible to do a treble Gridmaster as my London route is only 23 miles. The short out & backs would be murder on a bike, but potentially doable. #The route is public, but I managed to lose the grid centre location to make it all work fetcheveryone.com/routes-view.php?id=1867218 Am in the process of working out where the coords should be, and will move grid Monday morning to test the route works. Will share with y'all in case anyone wants a London Tri.
57.5 Degrees of Pain 20 Aug 7:57pm, 20 Aug 2024 20,418 posts	0 57.5 Degrees of Pain I could do an efficient route at my in-laws in the US as the town next door had a near perfect north/south grid. But it was impossible to avoid a corner straying into 'No trespassing' territory, and I didn't want to get shot! Did 220 squares there and the last 5 back in the UK once to earn the Gridmaster badge.
57.5 Degrees of Pain 20 Aug 8:01pm, 20 Aug 2024 20,419 posts	0 57.5 Degrees of Pain I also got hammered in 1x1 the week I did Gridmaster in one run. After 35 miles on a Monday I had no more desire to plod the same streets! Had to be a Monday (and hope my opponent didn't post anything) to get a screenshot of the pristine red 1x1 board.
Chicken 🐔 Legs 20 Aug 9:42pm, 20 Aug 2024 208 posts	0 Chicken 🐔 Legs A screenshot to frame, a fully owned grid on day 1 👍
jelly 21 Aug 7:36am, 21 Aug 2024 6,719 posts	0 jelly I could never get gridmaster in one go as I need to do a grid move to get to the inaccessible squares in the sea!
JCB 21 Aug 8:44am, 21 Aug 2024 5,778 posts	0 JCB 135 accessible squares, with the gridmaster shown (first half shown in situ but duplicated for the second half):
Chicken 🐔 Legs 21 Aug 8:55am, 21 Aug 2024 211 posts	0 Chicken 🐔 Legs I had 78 squares of sea back in Lee in Solent, and I'm not a swimmer Which was why I looked at London for a potential Gridmaster.
jelly 24 Aug 10:54am, 24 Aug 2024 6,724 posts	0 jelly Most of my inaccessible squares are in the sea but also the docks is an inaccessible area too!