2015 Mazda Adventure Rally Conclusion

After more adventuring, the Mazda Rally is officially over. Here’s how the last day shaped out.

This morning, Team Eunos Cosmo found itself just outside of a podium position, with just one point separating us from getting some money for our charity, Camp Sunshine. As a result our performance on the challenges today had to be perfect.

The first thing we had to do was take a drive from our hotel, through Kamloops, and note all the sport activities that are promoted on the side of the road. There was camping, fishing, skiing, golf and even more sports being promoted through the city. We quickly noted these down and head to a small mining town called Lake Logan.

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Additionally, the small towns in British Columbia are where several movies were filmed. Mazda asked us to recreate scenes from Smallville, The Wickerman and The Sweet Hereafter (sorry, Sci-fi fans, no X-Files here.) With our experience shooting films for AutoGuide.com in the past, Mike and I had no problems framing up our shots.

We arrived at our lunch spot confident, while other teams were a little shaky about the number of ranches they passed.

We finally hit the finish line, and waited for the results. The top four teams were very close, and we needed one of the three teams ahead of us to make a costly mistake. In the end they kind of did, but we didn’t make enough to vault ahead. That means we got tied for third place. In such an event, Mazda had to find a way to break the tie, so they saw how many events the two teams scored perfect on. Except there was a tie there too… So they decided to see how many perfect scores in a row the two teams achieved and we didn’t end up beating the other team. That means we got bumped down to fourth place.

There’s good news though. Mazda saw that we put in the effort to get to third place, and will still be awarding our charity, camp sunshine with $1,000! The other teams that earned money for their charity was the duo of Dan Heyman and Vincent Aube from Team AutoFocus that earned $10,000 for their charity Kids Help Phone, while Mark Richardson and Emily Atkins from The Toronto Star earned $2,000 for their charity Toronto Star Santa Claus Fund. Finally Joanne Elves and Jeff Wearmouth from the Globe and Mail, tied us for third place and also won $1,000 for their charity.

Congratulations to all the teams, we had a blast competing with them and with Mazda along the west coast of Canada with their brand new CX-3.