Discussion: Relay Arena Diagram Unveiled!

Details of the arena layout announced. See here.

Of note, the availability of the Club Zone®. This will be a special area set aside for club paraphernalia, and we hope, tents. There is room for all! While the medals go to the fastest club teams, the crowd favorites will be undoubtedly those clubs with the most style and enthusiasm. Show your club pride and colors!

Nice!

I am new to relay...How does the "handoff" work in a relay with e-punching?

I worked the epunch for the Tahoe World Cup Ski-O last year, but I don't have the software handy, so I'm working from memory. Each person has their own epunch, and it's recorded in the epunch database in their team definition. When a handoff occurs, the person coming in grabs the teammate's map, hands it to them, then punches the finish punch. That becomes the start time for the next person. When there's a catchup or mass start, that time is input manually in to the program as the start time for anyone who hasn't already started.

I was waiting for some final information before posting, but will post what I am sure about now since it's slightly different than above. There are lots of ways to arrange the relay - the incoming runner grabs a map and hands it to the next runner, the outgoing runner gets their own map; the incoming runner punches a box that separates their time from the next runner's time, the outgoing runner punches a box that does this, etc. In all cases though, as noted above, each runner has their own SI card and this information is in the relay software along with which runner has been assigned to which forking of the different legs.

For this relay, each runner will grab their own map from the map board as they start (except the first leg runners who will get their maps handed to them for the mass start). So, the tag-off happens, the next leg runner grabs their own map from the map board and heads for the first control. The runner that has just finished punches a "tag-off" box and then downloads - the time recorded at the tag-off box is used as the end time for the runner that just finished and the start time for the runner just starting.

This is why we need relay teams to submit the names and SI card #'s of the people in their team as soon as possible, so we can start building the event in the software. It would be great if people would fill out and email me this form but an email with the information (team name, point division, names of runners in order, each person's point value and SI #) is also okay. Please send to registrar@dvoa.org. Thanks!

Thanks, that seems like a good method so that tagged runner doesn't need to grab anything or punch start or anything complicated.

Well, it sounds like the starting runner does have to grab their (correct) map.

Back at NAOC 2012, a relay team was disqualified when the incoming runner took the wrong map. An outgoing runner can also take the wrong map, but it's more likely to happen when the map is grabbed by someone with oxygen debt who just spriinted in...