Discussion: JWOC relay

Hopefully I did my time calculation correctly and the men are starting in.... 8 minutes. The Live TV site is indicating 6 hrs and 5 minutes, but maybe its too smart for its own good.

Damn, I'm out by an hour, putting the start comfortably into the commuting timezone.

M20 starting in 5 minutes.
Broadcast just started but has same problems as yesterday (?) sound and video coming off and on...

Kiwis hanging in there.

AUS 1 got missed at the first two radios but is 14th (in a big bunch which also includes NZ) at the third.

1. On the tracking map purple course has the numbers 12 & 13 the wrong way round, maybe it does on the runners maps too because several of them turned at 12 and went back.
2. All the lead teams seem to be on the same forking.

Maybe you go through 13 to get to 12.

Purple course has a much longer forking in the second part of the courses - which teams still have this forking still to run on the 3rd leg?

tRicky - not watching this at work are you?

@simmo, everyone.

Simmo, just because you're retired doesn't mean only you can watch it. What happens at the next event where you ask if I watched the relay, I say no and you say 'For shame' or 'Why not?' or 'I'm old' or something similar?

But Finland and Norwat are doing the green course on 3rd leg - I thought they had already done that.

There is no "green course" (or only 3 courses), just colored forkings. Same runner may have first green, then blue and so on.

OK, I get it now.

Simmo, just ask PK about all the possible permutations available in relays.

Good battle for Aus/NZL honours!

Hyvä Suomi! Greetings from San Francisco, it's 1:45 AM!

Oops, I missed NZL 1 team, oh well. We may beat their 2 team :-)

Aus-1 12th, good result for Henry, Patrick & Matt.

Good job Matej for USA 1; he picked up 6 places to finish 31st.

Nothing wrong with watching it at work: I've got most of the text for the summary 2011-15 WMO climate assessment drafted in one window while having JWOC on in two others.

The GPS track of Norway 1 on the last women's leg doesn't seem especially consistent with where they're supposed to be going.

no, she didn't have a great run.

That was just the start of it though. Sui 2 would probably take out the noodle award if she ran for Bendigo.

Any more talk about the very uneven forking near the end of the third/last leg? The men's forking looks crazy (noted by simmo above?), but the women's looks very surprising (polite word) as well. I've only had a quick look, but all the forkings seem more uneven than necessary which only increases the role of the luck factor.

If this is viewed as tradeoff between setter/organizer provided luck vs competitor provided following, I'm voting to let the athlete's decide the results, not the setter/organizer. I thought there was nearly universal agreement on this, but apparently not.

As far as I understood it the green/blue forkings (on second half of the course) were used for legs 1 and 2 while the purple was used only for leg 3.

As mentioned above there were no colored courses only colored forkings... Earlier legs and specifically on the first half before the arena passage there were three forkings though.

I watched the whole relay live and it was a bit confusing at times to know which control the different teams had but I think it was a fair race.

Yes, on the 3rd leg, after the spectator control, the loop is common without forking (purple controls in the replay).