Harlequins Orienteering Club - Winter Evening Events

Winter Evening Events

A series of informal score events that take place on winter weekday evenings. The format is a one hour score event. Harlequins' WEE are arranged for Thursday (or occasionally Tuesday) evenings whilst our neighbour club Octavian Droobers hold their "After Dark" events on Wednesdays.

They're back! See the News page for Barry's announcement of the first 2009-10 event

2009 - 2010 Programme
All events on Thursdays unless otherwise stated

	Date	Venue	Organiser	Details	Results
1	24 Jan	Highgate Common	Barry Houghton	See News page	Results Splits Comments

The Winter Evening Event coordinator is Barry Houghton, email bjh{delete_this}@uwclub.net

Volunteers to organise and plan events are very welcome and will receive 25 points for their efforts. Volunteers please contact the league coordinator.

Rules

For each correct control you will be awarded the points as noted on the control description sheet
For each minute or part thereof that you take more than the 60 minutes allowed, 10 points will be deducted
If you take more than 75 minutes you will be disqualified (possibly)
The leading man and lady on each event will be awarded 25 points, the second 22 points, third 20 points, thereafter one point will be deducted for each lower place and so on
Anyone taking part will be awarded at least one point, unless disqualified
In the event of any ties the person who takes the least time will be awarded the higher position
The Planner/Organiser for each event will be awarded 25 points towards their league position. (Only one award of 25 points available per event)
Your best n–1 scores out of the n events will be used to determine your league position. (Where n = the number of events held in the season)
Where there are ties in the league table, the league position is worked out by reference to number of classes away from M/W21:
a. The further away from M/W 21 the higher the league position...
...eg an M45 would beat an M18 but not an M14. M45 is three classes away from M21, M18 is two away but M14 is four away
The leading points scorers, Men and Women, at the end of the season will be WEE Champions

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Notes

These events are intended as a good introduction to night orienteering for the newcomer, but will still be competitive for others. There will be a mixture of relatively easy controls on line features, such as paths, fences, ditches etc and more difficult controls for the more experienced night orienteers. The line feature controls help considerably for relocation and will normally allow the opportunity to go for some of the other controls. Controls will have different point values depending on their difficulty or distance.

The time for starts is typically 18:00 to 19:00 but it does depend on when it gets dark! If cloudy the first runner normally can go off 10 minutes after the end of "Civil Twilight".

Obviously a torch or headlight is needed (the more powerful the better)! Participants are responsible for their own safety and take part at their own risk. PLEASE NOTE that the carrying of whistles is compulsory at all HOC events (we usually have a few to hire or borrow).

Before setting off for an event please phone Barry Houghton on 01902 894890 or check the HOC website for updates

Previous Seasons

2008-9 WEE Page
2007-8 WEE Page
2007-8 League Table
2006-7 League Table
2005-6 League Table