The second Badge event of the year for Queensland took place at the location of last years Queensland championships. It started for many as a long walk to the assembly area as only high clearance 4WDs could make the last 1Km of the track.

In M21, with a lack of Queensland Cyclones team members competing, and Jukka Oikarinen having departed on his tour of Australia, Dane Cavanagh came out on top, while in W21 Wendy Read had a convincing win.

In the junior elite class there was far more competition. The men were blown out of the water by Kieran Sullivan who won with a blistering time of 65 minutes over the 10Km course, to win by over 10 minutes from Oliver Mitchell. In the women’s division, Bridget Anderson started well, she was leading up until the third last control when Grace Burrill took the lead. In a close race Grace won by two minutes to Bridget and then another minute back to Ruth Burrill.

The most interesting age group was the M16. The top three in this class, Oliver Crosato, Kurt Neumann, and Joshua Neumann were all within 1 minute of each other with 2 controls to go. At this point Joshua had the lead with Kurt and Oliver just trailing. But in the end Oliver Crosato came out to win by a minute over Kurt and Joshua Neumann.