I will admit to living six decades before learning of the game, ‘Spotto!’ But my four year old grandson is helping me make up for lost time by taking huge pleasure in spotting yellow cars and motorbikes before I do and enthusiastically telling me how much he’s winning by.
I decided to take his inspiration with me to this year’s Taipei Cycle and spot as many Aussies in the aisles as possible.
According to the official attendance figures that the organisers kindly provided at my request, 107 Aussies and Kiwis attended Taipei Cycle this year. You might think that’s a surprisingly high number, but in pre-covid years they reported totals as high as the 180’s. The reduced Australian attendance was in line with overall reduced attendance of buyers from Western markets.
In the photos below you’ll see only 25 smiling Aussie faces, therefore my Spotto strike rate was only 23%! Even this paltry result was hard to achieve when there were three separate halls totalling about 60,000 square metres. I’m not sure whether to play another round of Spotto at Eurobike this July, which will be more than twice the size, spread across about eight halls.
It will largely depend upon the number of reads this article receives and any other feedback. Over to you…
well I know for a fact that Richard Powel from Dirt Works Australia was there.
Or at least… he *told me* that he was there. Maybe he just went on a holiday to Hawaii?
Be sure to come and see our biggest ever booth at Eurobike this year! Hall 9, D16.