I shall cascade this reply to the list of e-mail recipients that I wrote to the BAR2007 organisers, dated 12 Sep 2007.

I was actually waiting for my e-mail to be replied so I can cascade to the others. But I guess this will do…

Thank you for your comment. And thank you for pointing out that safety is important.

Safety was and is always our numbe one concern. We had a lot of safety features throughout our AUgust event. The routes were tested twice by our technical officials to make sure they were safe. We also had ten medical personnel on duty on that day, including an ambulance from RIPAS with three paramedics, six trained army medics and personnel from the Red Crescent Society. We were lucky that the only medical problem that day was a competitor with a slight case of cramps.

The abseiling part of the course was tested many many times before, and our officials are trained to handle all kinds of situations. Safety helmets, gloves, the safety nets were all made compulsory. Similarly with the rafting course.

But at the end of the day, it is an adventure race and some element of risk and danger is part and parcel of the race. We as responsible organisers do seek to reduce the risks and we hope that participants take care and appropriate action to avoid any accidents.

We do take note of your concern and will do our utmost to maintain an acceptable safety standard always in our races.

But I have one comment.. SAFETY needs to be reviewed seriously!! I had a really great time, but I can’t help noticing the lack of SAFETY thru out the whole game (during the teaser race at JP playground). I will write an official e-mail to the organisers in due course.

Thank you.

team(s) only eligible for grand price for completing 4 races ya..so what if the team participate for all 4 races but there’s changes in one or two team members (due to other commitments). is the team still eligible? or all same team members all the way?

Thanks for dropping by. For the BAR2007, the entry fee is $100 for all the races. i.e. There is only ONE entry fee.

We haven’t opened registration for the race yet but we hope to do that sometime next month.

Thank you.