Thanks to GVOC for a great weekend of sprint training and racing! Once again they have found new terrain and made excellent maps and hosted a well organized weekend of challenging and fun orienteering.
We certainly couldn't get this level of sprint training any day of the week in southern Ontario!
My fave exercise was the O-tervals. Social highlight was the O-Jeopardy organized by Will Critchley.
Thanks again GVOC!
My photos from a couple of the races
Louise's Dad's photos (known to some also as Chris Oram)
Another wonderful weekend - even if it was cold! But it was dry :-) - and -25C when I got back to Calgary...
I am looking forward to a bit more detail from the O-Jeopardy which we sadly had to miss due to B's bedtime. I heard a rumor that there were answers such as, "One of the five is not IKEA furniture".
All maps and results now posted (including the relay):
http://gvoc.whyjustrun.ca/events/view/1247
Well done GVOC. Great weekend of high quality sprint races. Thanks for all the hard work.
Awesome again, as usual. I can't say enough positive things about this weekend every year.
I am looking forward to a bit more detail from the O-Jeopardy
Will Critchley was our Alex Trebek, and perhaps he'll share his presentation file. There were 4 teams: Vancouver, Rest of Canada, USA, and Rest of World. Each team sent up a representative for a round of 5 questions.
There were 6 (I think?) categories each in Jeopardy and Double Jeopardy! 5 questions per category, though I don't remember which ones were first half vs. second half. Also, I don't remember the exact names of the categories (some were pretty clever), but they were something like:
It's On A What Now? Showed a description sheet symbol. Had to identify the feature.
Name that Club. Showed the name of a club. Had to identify which country it was from.
Name that Jersey. Showed a picture of a jersey from WOC. Had to identify what country it was from.
Name that Country (from a terrain photo). Showed a picture of the terrain. Had to identify what country it was from.
Name that Country (from a map). Showed a map. Had to identify what country it was from.
Anagrams. Showed an anagram of a famous orienteer's name. Had to identify the orienteer. TIARA PICKLES & RACCOON LIKERS were the two that got the biggest laughs.
Orienteer or IKEA? Showed a list of IKEA-like item names. All of them were IKEA items, except one, which was a famous orienteer's last name. Had to identify the orienteer. This was probably the crowd's favorite category.
Jibberish. Showed a translation of the word "orienteering" in various languages. Had to identify the language.
DSQ. Showed an ISSOM leg with several routes. Had to identify the only one that was illegal.
No DSQ.. Showed an ISSOM leg with several routes. Had to identify the only one that was legal.
Slowest Route. Showed a leg with several routes. Had to identify which route was the slowest.
Hmmm... that's 11, so it looks like I'm missing one... Maybe there was a Fastest Route category? Or maybe one of them was used twice?
And then Final Jeopardy! was to list exactly 10 nations that have won a gold medal at WOC (since 1966).
Hmm, Pink Socks failed to mention that despite the US's early lead, The Rest of The World gambled everything on the Final Jeopardy and won!
It was lots of fun!
despite the US's early lead domination.
We dominated the first two rounds. But we missed the Final Jeopardy question and everyone else got it right. Bummer...
Awesome weekend - thanks so much, GVOC! Now I need to go catch up on my sleep!
A well-rounded program. Easy logistics so it didn't feel rushed. I enjoyed all the trainings and especially the farsta race madness. Will people please put these on so I can do one of them in an awesome city like once a month? Thank you.
A great weekend again. Even with more than 100 participants sessions run smooth and in a timely fashion.
As for the O-Jeopardy, Yay, for the Rest of the World !!!
+1 for a once a month dose of sprint camp.
Thank you Vancouver.
Seattle's turn.......
Every year I go to Sprint Camp, I already feel really, really guilty and selfish about it, because Seattle doesn't have anything equivalent, and I feel bad that we can't reciprocate, and then I feel even worse when I read comments like this that expect us to reciprocate.
But the reality is that both CascadeOC and GVOC have completely different philosophies and working conditions, and that's what makes it hard for us to host something like this.
GVOC is awesome at several things: they have 50+ ISSOM maps and mappers to make them, they have regular Wednesday evening trainings, and they host a super fantastic event every February.
CascadeOC is awesome at completely different things: we have the largest junior program in the country, and our Winter Series & School League is essentially the same as hosting 8 A-Meet days from November to February (8 courses, 325-425 starts at each).
When GVOC maps a new venue, it's something that can be used for WET, or for Sprint Camp, and is usually something that requires little or no permitting. When CascadeOC maps a new venue, we need to make sure that it's got enough parking and infrastructure, and that land management is OK with us being there. Permitting is more difficult in the US (just ask Vlad, where his recent Sprint The Golden Gate had about $25 worth of permitting *per person*).
Right now, Seattle just doesn't have enough ISSOM maps. To my knowledge, there are 3 ISSOM maps in western Washington, and they are about a 2-hour drive from one another (Green Lake Park, Cle Elum High School, and Fort Casey State Park).
Creating and maintaining maps is a lot of work, and we just don't have the volunteer bandwidth right now to accommodate that. Because of our behemoth Winter Series, a lot of us are already overworked (of all the people here, I should feel the least guilty about this).
That said, I *want* to organize an 80-person sprint tournament someday in Seattle. I have the schedule laid out, I know the venues I want to use. It's virtually impossible for us to host something like this between October and March, so I'd shoot for September, when the weather is usually nice and locals (aka volunteers) are usually in town.
But there are some hurdles to overcome, and other club priorities to consider.
I'm a bit late, just got home, but thanks so much GVOC! Really fun weekend, good courses, awesome people and the rain held off!
For the record, permitting for Sprint the Golden Gate 2013 came out to an even $28.00 per showed-up entrant. And I'm still unsure that two of the venues will let us use them again.
I would modify Patrick's comment to "Permitting is difficult and expensive in the Western U.S. Permitting is less expensive, but still difficult, in the Midwest and the East."
Seattle will be awesome.
What about other cities?
U.S. Permitting is less expensive, but still difficult, in the Midwest and the East
As compared to the Bay Area, I would say that permitting in the Eastern & MIdwestern US is also less difficult.
And a short three days after organizing 10 sprints in 48 hours the GVOC gang was at it again sprinting on the tidal flats.
Toronto has so much potential to replicate Vancouver's urban O scene. In fact, Toronto was ahead of the time mapping most of their urban parks 30 years ago! Time for an ISSOM refresh Toronto?
@T/D: No, is.
As for will be, who knows? Not every bad thing from CA makes it out east...
I wasn't going to bring up specific 2013 East Coast examples.
Although late, I feel ethically obliged to chime in and also say thank you: my second full sprint camp was a totally awesome, fun experience. It's a Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sprint-O.
Although I am only now healing-up after getting totally abused by Sprint Camp this year. Once again, huge thanks to the organizers - great job! Thanks!
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sprint-O
Yessssss!
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