pine_knot wrote on Sep 17^th, 2019 at 7:51pm:

I believe that having a SPOT is a requirement for Watertribe events....apparently one of the reasons for some of these events (derby?) a few years ago was to give participants practice using SPOT messages correctly....makes one wonder if SPOT is a sponsoring organization....

  Don't you get some kind of reward/medal for finishing them is a certain time frame? I thought I read there were MANDATORY checkpoints you use the SPOT so they can see from your GPS points that your actually doing the course?

You know without some way to verify people doing it there would be a few lowlifes like in those marathon races that claim they did the whole race but didn't.