course results: Short Long

College Park
May 4, 2008

Meet Director: Tom Nolan
Course Designer: Russ Damtoft
The day turned out to be a lot nicer than it had any right to be. Clear skies and sunshine, temps in the 70s, a little breeze to get the papers flapping – near-perfect conditions for urban orienteering. Russ Damtoft designed the courses with a little twist – in place of the usual control markers, you had to find information at the control site that would permit you to answer to the question presented on your score sheet. A multiple-choice format minimized the scribbling and kept you moving. The general consensus was positive, most competitors taking the format, as intended, in the spirit of fun. Your meet director found a particular benefit in all this (no control pickup), but on the other hand, the scoring of all those sheets was a bit tedious. Where there were ambiguities in the field, I tried to give credit for all reasonable answers, and hopefully everyone was treated fairly. Points were deducted for overtime (5 points for every minute or fraction thereof) and for erroneous answers (double the original point value). In the case of a tie, the edge was given to the shorter completion time.

As usual, we could not have put on the meet without the volunteers’ generous contribution of their time: Mei-An Nolan and Ruth Chapman at the registration desk (well, in their case, maybe there was some coercion involved); and Heidi Onkst, Mary Snieckus, Mike Newman, and Mihai Sirbu at the start/finish. Welcome to new member Eric Landers, and to all participants, we hope to see you again.

Tom Nolan

MEET RESULTS
Last columns are the number of points for this event.

YELLOW Course: 2.7 km, 80 m climb, 10 controls 

                                           
                                                Time
                                Points  Error  Penalty   Score
 1  Ken Walker, Jr.               250     0       0       250  31      
 2  Stephen White                 230     0       5       225  30      
 3  Scott Holleman                195     0      10       185  29      
 4  Elliott Hamilton              190     0      15       175  28      
 5  Chris & James Hemus           170     0       0       170  27      
 6  David Freeman                 170     0       5       165  26      
 7  John Wirzburger               155     0       0       155  25      
 8  Robert & Rebecca Rich         135     0       0       135  24      
 9  Synthia Tonn & Sean Wallace   130     0       0       130  23      
10  Linus Hamilton                145    20       0       125  22      
11  Steve & Barbara Wachs         125     0       0       125  21      
12  Ken Gwynn                     125     0       5       120  20      
13  Bill Vickers                  160    20      25       115  19      
14  Steve & Jill Morris           170    20      35       115  18      
15  Andrew Szabo                  120     0      10       110  17      
16  Neil Ewachiw                  110     0      15        95  16       
17  Heidi Onkst                   125    40       5        80  15       
18  Baxter Hamilton &
        Philippa Gasnier           80     0       5        75  14
19  Mike Newman                    75     0       5        70  13       
20  Aaron Szabo                    60     0       0        60  12       
21  Steve & Fatimah Royster        65     0      10        55  11       
22  Mary Snieckus                  85     0      30        55  10       
23  Melnyck-Carr group            110     0      60        50   9      
24  Nathaniel & Randy Henning      60    20       0        40   8      
25  David McIntire & crew         105    20     105       -20   7     
26  Michelle Fish & Katie Kennedy 190     0     260       -70   6     
27  Matt Hudson                    70    20     125       -75   5     
28  Don Fish                      100     0     220      -120   4    
29  Kim Davis group                 0    60      95      -155   3
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Long Course 

                                                Time
                                Points  Error  Penalty   Score
 1  Tom Strat                     430      0     65       365  26      
 2  Mihai Sirbu                   380     30      0       350  25      
 3  Joe Garman                    355      0     10       345  24      
 4  Chris Gross                   325      0     10       315  23      
 5  Andy Britton                  410     40     65       305  22      
 6  Frantisek Brabec              300      0      0       300  21      
 7  Tim Good                      325     20      5       300  20      
 8  Michael Matveev               315      0     15       300  19      
 9  Gayle Ryan                    290      0      0       290  18      
10  John Sawyko                   280      0     10       270  17      
11  Greg Lennon                   295     40      0       255  16      
12  Gary Smith                    265     20      0       245  15      
13  Bill Vienna                   235      0      0       235  14      
15  Dan Quinn                     235     10      0       225  13      
14  John, Donna & Katie Landers   225      0      0       225  12      
16  Dwight Johnson                200      0      0       200  11      
17  Mike Lieder                   170      0     20       150  10      
18  Ruth Auerbach                 175     30      0       145   9     
19  Dan James                     215     30     60       125   8     
20  Kirsten Johnson               115      0      0       115   7     
21  Karla Hulett                  154     10     40       104   6     
22  Mike Ford                     120     20      0       100   5     
23  Eric Landers & Izzy Eno       135     20     15       100   4     
24  David Onkst                   dnf                       0   3
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Welcome to QOC’s College Park event, taking place on the Univ. of Maryland College Park (UMCP) campus. The campus offers fast “urban” style orienteering, where the object is to navigate quickly around a city-like setting using a very detailed map that’s quite different from a more traditional forested orienteering setting.

This will be a Score-O event, where the object is to find as many controls as possible within either 45 minutes (if you choose the short course) or 75 minutes (long course).  You may go to controls in any order  --  you may well decide that you can’t go to every control. 

Furthermore, there are NO regular control flags on the course.  Instead, you need to locate each control on the map and by referring to the description of the control on the score sheet.  Instead of a control flag, the score sheet will ask you a question that can be answered by reference to a prominent item at the control location:  the ID number on a tree (see example at right – there are a lot of these), the number on a “blue light” emergency call box (right, below), a date on a plaque, etc.  Three multiple choice options are presented:  just check the right one, and you’re on your way to the next control.

Groups must stay together.  It violates the spirit of the event to divide up and hit different controls simultaneously, so please don’t.  The honor system applies here.

SCORING: The number of points for each control (either 5, 10, or 15) is shown in the second column of the clue sheet you will be given with your map. The scoring is based on the total number of control points punched, with a deduction for penalty points. 

Penalty points are:  5 points off for every minute on the course over your time limit (either 45 or 75 minutes), and double the point value for any choice you got wrong.  So don’t guess!