Discussion: Street Smart 2014? join the team?

Someone shared with me this link and I thought we gotta get something going...

Anybody interested in being on a team to administrate the 2014 urban orienteering series?

It can include anything from campus sprints to orienteering-style city courses to urban rogaines.

The goal would be to have a national champs weekend in Dec 2014 in some place like New Orleans, maybe a sprint on Saturday, longer event on Sunday.

Respond here or rex at terraloco dot com.

Need people who do statistics, we would probably set up a blog like on WordPress and have logins for people from various clubs to add events and upload pictures, and people who just wanna have a say in what's going on.

Crickets. All I heard was crickets.

I'm very enthusiastic to promote orienteering on the streets and make our sport more accessible (and visible!) to the masses. Apparently they are in Europe too.

But I perhaps overestimated the willingness of others in North America ... I would feel rather funny if I started a series up for 2014, but there wasn't too much interest in it.

Any guidance or suggestions? I'm willing to step back to and let someone else be the lead on an ad-hoc 2014 urban series.

I would start with a group of like minded and interested individuals. Contact clubs that are already organizing large city races and see if together one can make it work (ie., Vancouver, Ottawa, Boston?). It appears that the link you sent is the exactly what I suggest above is. A few groups of races that already exist and no being promoted as a tour.

You waited only one day for responses, BSB. From my reading of AP there are centres of interest in urban orienteering in North America. Around here the uptake of interest in the urban landscape is one of my delights, and I salute the Park World Tour for its pioneering work. What's happening now is longer urban events such as the races you linked to, and urban rogaines. Persist.

PS We tend to think of the cityscape, but I have a fetish for the European village. We don't have the ancient villagescape around here but a dream is a series of events in small towns. The nicer ones have "recreation grounds" with perhaps a footie ground and a small grandstand, big old English trees, maybe a cemetery nearby, riverbanks... The problem is the travelling, but I'll find a way.

Make sure you come to the Australian Nationals next year Michael. We will have the sprint, middle, long and relay as standard (plus extras) then a series of sprint events (not in rustic European village settings unfortunately) followed by your favourite of all, a MTBO series! The MTBO is in wine country if that's what you're interested in too.

The way the league works in the UK is that it is made up of events that clubs are already organising, and then from that list a league is formed (looking at geographical spread, what else is on etc.)

and plug http://cityracetour.org/

regards comment from Jayne
see here:-
http://www.oxfordfusion.com/NopeUL/index.cfm
this is how it works in the UK :)