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Yvette Baker Trophy Final Sunday 5th December 2004 Milford, Cannock Chase |
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Yvette Baker Trophy Final Sunday 5th December 2004 Milford, Cannock Chase |
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PLANNER'S COMMENTS
It was quite a challenge to plan courses both for a District Event and the Yvette Baker Trophy Final for the same day. I hope you got as much enjoyment and interest while running the courses as I did planning them.
My intention was to have a good assembly area and finish on Milford Common and to keep climb on the more junior courses to the minimum. This dictated the position of the start. My intention also was to create as much route choice as possible on the senior courses in an area with some excellent terrain whilst not allowing the junior courses to stray beyond the guidelines.
A big thank you to Ray Collins as controller for all his support, patience and good advice and to all the club members (10) who so willingly agreed to put out and take in controls and to the Stodgells for their amazing facility to make the technology bring this sport to life.
Jane Christopher
Si and Techie Comments
Click here for techie explaination of how we did it.
A few thank you’s
Martin Stone of Sportident UK for free hire of SI Cards
Fraser Stephens (SPLOT) for help with the Wireless Network.
Chris Poole for the Commentary
Graham Tough for providing the YBT results calculation software.
The download team under Neil and Tim’s Guidance.
At most times during the event when the webcam was functioning at least 3 people were watching which peaked at 7 including one user in Germany.
We had 7 emails during the event including one from Lithuania.
It’s a shame we did not have the correct jacks to connect Chris’s commentary directly to the webcast so for most of the event had to make do with background noise.
A first in Britain – well if so I cant think of a better event to do it at. Hope everybody had as good a time as me.
Stodge
Controllers Comments
Planning good courses from Milford is a very difficult thing to achieve especially on the easier courses due to too many paths and an awful lot of climb. To plan two sets of shorter courses on the area is obviously much harder. I thought that Jane produced some excellent courses that fulfilled the guidelines while being reasonably taxing on the brain, which is of course why we orienteer. Realistically and with hind sight the yellows needed another control, or even two, between 213 and 204. Sorry to those juniors who failed to turn right and then left.
Looking at the start from my vantage point of the hill on the other side to the start, yes it was the controller stopping you from climbing up and cheating, many people just ran off without looking at their maps. This was most noticeable on the green and brown courses where a left turn should have been taken within ten meters of the start flag. It was amazing how many runners went up the hill to 201 adding distance and climb to a downhill leg. By looking at the results you will notice that seconds really did count.
Keith as organiser did a great job thanks to his thorough preparation while Mark Stodgell (Stodge) produced fantastic electronic wizardry producing results, pictures and information live to the net and arena. Both of these, Jane and their helpers deserve your thanks for a great days orienteering. Where were you Rhys?
The only complaint I have had concerns control 220, number 15 on the blue. A few people moaned that on the map there is no gully just a form line. I suggest you invest in new glasses because if you look closely the form line ends, there is a small gap and a gully starts.
Ray Collins
raycollins@hotmail.com/