tally card

See the tally card posted in the lobby as you leave.)

Ca trù literally translates as "tally card songs."

Challenge walks are marshalled i.e. participants must call in at clipper points or checkpoints to get a tally card punched to show they are following the route.

What's important is what happens between human beings on a personal level: not who wins these little impersonal games with their little rulebooks and their little tally cards.