Delaware Valley Orienteering Association

Topic created by WindWalker on Mon Apr 16, 2012 at 6:50 am

WindWalker
Num Posts: 164
Primary Club: DVOA
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First O: 2011

OK if you were at Hawk Mountain you know the story with control #35, or see other post.

There were 7 missed punches from control 35, 3 on orange, 2 on brown and 3 on green, there were 65 people that ran the 4 courses that would have had control 35.

So the question is do I give the 7 people that missed punched control 35 credit?

If you ran the orange, brown, green or the red course I would appreciate your opinion on this. A simple yes or no is fine no need for lengthy discussions, had enough of that yesterday.

Please vote as this seems to be the fairest way to settle the matter. I'll give it 24hrs and then Sandy will finalize the results one way or the other.

Thank you.

Mike

Reply by kathyu on Mon Apr 16, 2012 at 8:40 am

kathyu
Num Posts: 697
Primary Club: DVOA
Fav map: Hickory Run Sand Spring
First O: 2004

If you want to do anything, I would suggest the fairest thing to do (and the easiest) would be to eliminate #35 times completely. 
My vote -- just leave it alone.  These things happen. 

Reply by edscott on Mon Apr 16, 2012 at 9:15 am

edscott
Num Posts: 703
Primary Club: DVOA
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First O: 1983

I agree with Kathy. Leave it alone.  The flag was outside the slashed area of the rifle range.  The intermittantly roped area is not a permanent or well defined boundary.

Reply by BobGross on Mon Apr 16, 2012 at 10:46 am

BobGross
Num Posts: 70
Primary Club: DVOA
Fav map: Nolde
First O: 1990

Mike - Just wanted to let you know I really enjoyed the course. I did follow the rope, my bad. The lesson is don't follow ropes in the woods keep in contact with the map. That rope was no different than unmapped trails, new man made structures etc. on our maps that we need to filter out as we run. I probably lost 5 minutes in my mistake. My vote is keep it as is. 

You did a great job on the green course design and placement of the controls. Hope to see more of your courses in the future.

Reply by BevH on Sat Apr 28, 2012 at 8:24 am

BevH
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First O: 1981

Enjoyed the course very much.

A suggestion would be to NC those competitors, on their request, who couldn't find control 35.  Those interested in their scores for ranking  purposes would get a very low score with a MP or DNF. By scoring them as NC, this would not affect their ranking, but it also would not distort the times or places for your event.