MASOC 29 5/6 and FC Central 5/7
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Topic created by Orienteer7 on Mon May 8, 2017 at 8:06 pmThe results for Sunday have been sent out tonight for posting. Waiting to hear how I can extract names from Saturday for workers who ran their course a day earlier. I am also working on getting the last names of the scouts into the Saturday results so that you see more than the troop number and troop group.I want to thank all those that helped with both events. One thing I know for sure is next year I would like to have a "national event" like team together to lighten the load in administering and controlling this event.I will post a more detailed thank you later this week once the work on results is done and I have fully recovered from 3 days of being rained on.Mark
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Reply by BRycharski on Mon May 8, 2017 at 11:49 pmHi mark, I had fun anpd met some new friends at saturdays Masoc. It was a great effort, nice courses and led by a greaat ED - Mark Frank, taught I think by the wizard or ED (event Dir.), Mr Ed Scott.
some observations to entice new members to participate as volunteers next year. I arrived a bit-late from NJ as I had not planned on heavy morning baseball or soccer traffic on Pa 100 South. to get to pottsville Pa.
so that side comment over, I arrived for the tail end of helping others with Map reading and course planning, training and giving tips, joining the other Bob as a trainer. Just the map reading basics, so volunteers can do this type job and then move on to help elsewhere, with over 600 scouts, I wandered over and could'nt find anyone needing help, so I joined Sharon at the head of the start triangle , first Fixing said Start triangle as it was more of a trampled wavey 3 sided free form waveform I see on my work test oscilloscope. any way, sharon and I split the duty, I taking the pink card course runner, and she thse runnners with E punches, as we gave slightly different last instructions. anyway, I saw many faces, all eager to start. then Beep, beep, beep, BEEP! there off. the scouts here at Masoc before stepped off lively, and some bragging they were going to win there course (at least 4 or 5 teams did say that). then about 39+ minutes later the last 3 late arrivals made it to ....The Start , then the meet crew broke the start equipment down and many shifted to the finish and a few like me chose to try the brown course. I had an enjoyable run, made a few poor route choices, but I do surmise my Time would have been better if I would not have stopped to help 3 large Cub grouping here way midway around the lake (trainer Syndrome: He's An 'O' trainer, and Has A sharp DVOA Blue Red Shirt, So he must be an expert). Also sadly, I met a somewhat older Scout with a subtle defeated look, and as I chuffed along, he meekly asked for the general direction of the finish line, he wanted to withdraw. I wish He had A Scout buddy, he probably would have stuck it out and continued hiking. I told him that we could see the finish line tent from or side of the lake, but as swimming-O is not an official USOF type of course, to just walk clockwise west, north then east and he could make it quicker than turning around and backtracking. . anyway, I had fun, and arrived back to hear Mark F give the instructions to the 400 or so Scouts getting maps and blue score cards for the rescheduled 2 pm Score O event. We especially asked leaders to remind Scouts be early rather be 1 second late. and some newbie leaders forgot to (or did not hear) they were to copy the provided master maps for there units scouts with red pens. ( I have a blank map, where are the control circles? was heard from 2 teams, two troops at least.)
At the end (brown run, remember), I reached the finish then socialized with other finishers and was kindy offered a hotdog from GiLbralter BSA 529. So yummie, I asked and got one for John G at the computer Tent. sublimable Hint For the next ED in '18. So Then thats a small Masoc story line, from a now old Scout with a mind to remind all DVOA members to support your Marks (ED, Frank) and Ed Scotts and others, especially as I only saw One younger DVOA shirted Member helping (maybe more were out of sight), please help out at other DVOA O meets in any capacity. The need is great, and even a small 1/2 helping out at Meet Admin and start and finish duties, goes a long way in my eyes, and it just might convince you to later become a upper management DVOA leader and organizer of future O meets, big or small.
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Reply by edscott on Tue May 23, 2017 at 6:29 pmOverall Troop Resuts are posted at http://www.scoutorienteering.com/masoc_downloads.htm
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Reply by Guy-O on Tue May 23, 2017 at 11:16 pmAren't URLs supposed to convert to links automatically?
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Reply by furlong47 on Wed May 24, 2017 at 11:59 amThey don't. You have to use the little link button on the toolbar. (And as I discovered yesterday, it doesn't work very well if you're posting from a phone.) Not sure if either html or bb code works here.... testing...<a href="http://www.dvoa.org">Test </a>[url=http://www.dvoa.org]Test 2 [/url]
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Reply by furlong47 on Wed May 24, 2017 at 11:59 amNope and nope. Also not sure why the text size changes halfway through, as it doesn't appear that way in the entry box.
