Radiation Burn

As the teams arrive at TA4/CP8 (Dawson Forest) they're to be given the instructions for the mysterious Radiation Burn. Check out the Overview page on CP Tracker for the intricate details of this, but to make it short, here's what they gotta do:

Teams are given the coordinates of 3 CPs at Dawson Forest and are given a choice: 1) they can try to obtain all three CPs in under 15 minutes and proceed to the next section. If they fail, they must go back out and obtain 2 more CPs. 2) they can obtain the other 2 coordinates up front and get all 5 CPs in one run.

At first thought, the choice sounds pretty simple - take the 3 CPs and move on - but there are cons to that as well. In order to beat the clock, a team choosing option #1 has to sprint as quickly as possible out and back. This puts them in pretty bad shape and in need of recovery before moving on to the next leg. If they miss the cut off time, not only are they tired, but they have to go back out and obtain the other two points. If a team chooses the second option, they can go at a reasonable pace to obtain all 5 CPs at once.