Yearlong Cooperative County Challenge

OK, would like to try this for 2012.

This will be far different that last time, as there will be no prizes, no winners, no losers, no entry fee, all may participate.

Simply, we will collectively try to fill in as much of the map as we can...just post up your county hits.

In order to eliminate any form of competition whatsoever, there will be no standings page, you can keep track of your own if you want to. The map will be colored in as counties are hit...a different color for whatever month the county was hit in - the color will not indicate WHO got the hit.

This way there is just cooperation, no competition....nothing to create possible bad feelings.

My original intent with this, last year...was simply to bring more people to the forums more frequently and try to build a little community. The competition aspects made this effort backfire, and I regret that.

Hopefully, this way, there will be no bad feelings, cooperation over competition...and we can try to build something together.

All who wish to participate may do so...those who do not wish to participate....that is your choice, you are welcome to participate. Please post links to the hits.

As before, we will have a map and a spreadsheet, so that one may see which counties have already been hit....but nothing on the map or spreadsheet will indicate WHO got the hit...thus competition is totally eliminated...and, along with it....any reason for bad feelings.

Spreadsheet Link
Spreadsheet current thru Brevard County, Florida on page 7.

Link to Full Size Map
Map is colored in up thru Brevard, Florida (page 7). Next Map update will be around 2/15/12.

How about I start off this shindig with a Bergen County, NJ hit?

Awesome you should get a hit in Jersey!!

Let me continue this by claiming Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Category 1 - a hit somewhere my bills have never gone - Mecklenburg, NC

Category 2 - well trod soil -

Fairfax County, VA
Anne Arundel, MD

nice...and the game is afoot!!

Be about a week before I put up our first map.

I am going to color each the same color for the month in which it was hit...so our first map will not be colorful...

got two more for the list:

Ingham County, Michigan

and Coffee County, Tennessee

Home county posts are always nice...Maricopa, AZ

Still have not gotten MY backyard hit, but this one's fairly close...

Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Alphabetically one past my home county...and geographically three counties away.

Ocean County, New Jersey

And I'll raise you a

Mercer County, West Virginia

and a

Burlington County, New Jersey

Bay county MI http://www.trackdollar.com/report.htm?url=BH60FE532FC7DAA13F0C75FE0E5141581737EDF00B&sess=001FE626BF
Cook County Illinois http://www.trackdollar.com/report.htm?url=BH09914843AEB2CF5F601BE806382831715E848962&sess=001FE626BF

Ah...Matt nails the county of my birth...Cook, Illinois!!

Well, closer to home now for me...Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania

Still not my home county, but next door to it, at least.

Kalisiin wrote:Ah...Matt nails the county of my birth...Cook, Illinois!!

You were born in Illinois! Well that explains everything. (sorry couldn't resist) Just hope that isn't a Fib.

Matt_How wrote:

Kalisiin wrote:Ah...Matt nails the county of my birth...Cook, Illinois!!

You were born in Illinois! Well that explains everything. (sorry couldn't resist) Just hope that isn't a Fib.

Nope. Truth. Born at St. Francis Hospital in Cook County, Illinois.

Kalisiin wrote:

Matt_How wrote:

Kalisiin wrote:Ah...Matt nails the county of my birth...Cook, Illinois!!

You were born in Illinois! Well that explains everything. (sorry couldn't resist) Just hope that isn't a Fib.

Nope. Truth. Born at St. Francis Hospital in Cook County, Illinois.

You didn't travel to Wisconsin much when you were a child did you?

Matt_How wrote:

Kalisiin wrote:

Matt_How wrote:

Kalisiin wrote:Ah...Matt nails the county of my birth...Cook, Illinois!!

You were born in Illinois! Well that explains everything. (sorry couldn't resist) Just hope that isn't a Fib.

Nope. Truth. Born at St. Francis Hospital in Cook County, Illinois.

You didn't travel to Wisconsin much when you were a child did you?

A few times, yes.

I have hits to list here, since I have not been getting notifications, and I finally got suspicious and checked my 2012 Achievements, and lo and behold...a bunch of hits for which I have never gotten text or email notifications!!

Let's start with

Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico (Markus, can we get a real zip code on this one, as it is counting this international, which is wrong?? The correct US Zip Code is 00795.)

Kings County, New York

Somerset County, New Jersey

Northampton County, Pennsylvania

Sullivan County, New York

and

Montgomery County, New York

Douglas County, Illinois

Still am not getting my hit notifications!!

Sneaking in to grab Northumberland, PA

dctim wrote:Sneaking in to grab Northumberland, PA

NICE ONE!!!
That sucker's a tough hit...it is in the seven-county "hole" in PA...where the good majority of the population is Amish.

Delaware County, Pennsylvania

And FINALLY...
my Home County

Monroe County, Pennsylvania

I'd've been kinda ticked off if someone had beaten me to this one...