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Checkpoints

The Clue Sheet

Teams receive a Checkpoint Clue Sheet moments before they're released from event headquarters. The locations of all twelve checkpoints are embedded in the clues on the Checkpoint Clue Sheet.

There is no set course to Urban Challenge, nor are checkpoints marked. Teams prove they visited each checkpoint in the correct order by photographing themselves at each checkpoint. Both team members must be in the photo.

At the finish, the loaned camera is returned and the photos verified. Photos must be exposed in the correct order.

Example: Your team gets checkpoint 3 as your first checkpoint. Your camera must contain photos of both members of your team at checkpoint 3, then 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 1, and finally 2. Your team can take more than one photo at each location, but the photos must be taken in the correct order.

Your team is allowed to take multiple pictures of a checkpoint to make sure you "got it" but you can't take pictures of two different places because you are not sure which one it is. For example, you think that Checkpoint 3 is either 121 West Main or 125 West Main. Taking pictures at both addresses will eliminate your team. Taking a checkpoint photo of a location that is not a checkpoint eliminates a team from the race. Urban Challenge will endeavor to avoid becoming hyper-technical, but a picture with both team members in it will likely be viewed as an attempt to prove the team visited that spot because they thought it was a checkpoint, not a shot for the scrapbook. A visitation photo of an incorrect checkpoint always eliminates a team.

In the unlikely event that a team visits a correct checkpoint, but visits it out of order, it may repair its error by returning to the missed checkpoints, taking another photo, and then visiting (and re-visiting where necessary) each succeeding checkpoint. For example, a team mistakenly skips checkpoint 5, and then goes to checkpoint 6, then checkpoint 7. After checkpoint 7, the team realizes its mistake. It may repair its mistake by backtracking to checkpoint 5, then checkpoint 6, then checkpoint 7, and then continuing on the course.