Results for EM Champs, Stanton Moor, 20/03/2022
16.45pm Sunday provisional results uploaded
Lost
property:
Navy
Pertex jacket with LAB logo, claim as below.
Course splits
M10B
W10B White |
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M10A
M12B W10A W12B Yellw |
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M12A
M14B W12A W14B Ornge |
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M14A
M16B W14A W16B LgtGr |
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M75
M80 M85 M90 M65S M70S W65 W70 W75 W80 W18S W20S W45S W50S W55S W60S ShtGr |
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M70
M55S M60S W16A W55L W60L W35S W40S Green |
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M65L
M18S M20S M45S M50S W18L W20L W45L W50L W21S ShtBl |
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M16A
M55L M60L M35S M40S W35L W40L Blue |
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M18L
M20L M45L M50L M21S W21L ShtBr |
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M21L
M35L M40L Brown |
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Organiser's Comments
A lovely day on the Moor, for once the Weather Gods were smiling on us! Fantastic to see Podium and CompassPoint trading again, meaning we can all have a good chat!
Congratulations to the winners of East Midlands Championship trophies, from MW10 all the way up to W75 and M85. What a fit bunch we are!
The East Midland Junior Squad cake stall took £94.50. They're really grateful for your custom, as this will go towards minibus hire for a weekend away (in fact it's only 1/4 of the cost, but the best quarter). We loved having them.
Our Planner and Mapper – Richard Parkin – has probably been tweaking this event since 1st lockdown. We were delighted when the farmer offered us this particular parking field in January, as it made everything so convenient!
Thanks to all our DVO helpers, a 'well oiled machine'. I say this every time, and it's a great endorsement for each of them and for the help teams system. Each Team Leader holds their team equipment and have their own practices, so all that needs sharing before each event is the location of the Start/s, Finish and Download. )A DVO club mate found my car keys during his warm up, for those who saw yesterday's taxi drama on Facebook!)
Finally, thanks to Historic England for their detailed guidance in avoiding control placements/route choices on any archaeological sites, and Richard for his diligence in this (unlike the Spring Equinox campers). As ever, grateful thanks to Stanton Estates and the farmer Mr Henry Holland for being so accommodating and giving the CompassPoint van a tow!
See you all again soon!
Sal Chaffey
I’d
like to thank controller Pete Gorvett and organiser
Sal Chaffey and all the DVO helpers. Plus whoever
arranged the weather. (We placed the order early last year—you have to book well in advance these days and even then
…). Thanks too for the feedback, the good and the bad and the in-between.
As mapper, I now have a couple of notes to check. As planner, I was glad to hear
a variety of routes were taken. Please add your routes to Routegadget.
I’d love to see where you went. Best wishes, Richard P
Controller
comments
It
was a pleasure to control on Stanton Moor, it is such a varied area with a lot
of different technical challenges. Richard’s new map was a real
bonus and the people I heard enjoyed his courses. The DVO team handled
the organisation very effectively, as expected.
Apologies
to the white course competitor who lost a lot of time 2-3. There was a
junction that when checking in 2020 for the 2021 iteration of this event had
seemed so minor that following the track was obvious. But by 2022 it was
no longer clear which was the main track and which the minor path; it should
have had a control.
I’d
be interested in any feedback on three areas:
Vegetation
boundaries or not
There
was some discussion in the finish field about the use of Copse
Edge (137) and Forest Corner (121) and whether it is reasonable to
use them if there is no vegetation boundary. I wasn’t sure when I
first checked the sites, but after discussion with Richard I agreed they
weren’t against the rules. One argument might be “why do the
symbols exist if they can always be replaced by the vegetation boundary
symbol”, but perhaps that is over simplistic. The rules
simply say:
·
Features
used as control sites must be clearly defined, distinct from the surrounding
terrain and marked on the map.
·
Control
sites must be chosen so that the competitor is able to locate them with an
accuracy consistent with the scale of the map and the amount of detail shown
near the control.
In
both cases the flags were high and I didn’t hear
anybody saying they couldn’t find the controls. There were trees
one side of the control and none on the other so I
felt the boundary was “clearly defined” despite no veg boundary
symbol. Perhaps a bigger question is why we tend in the UK to
reserve the vegetation boundary symbol for young trees where there is a clear
and obvious line at eye-level, but not use it when there is a high canopy even
if there is a clear mappable distinction between wood and open, so
it could fit the ISOM vegetation boundary definition as a “distinct
forest edge”.
Exact
placement of controls
Should
gully and narrow reentrant controls always be in the
centre of the feature? For various reasons (including attempts to avoid
vandalism) there were at least three at this event that were to one side, but
within a metre of the feature line. One of these (134) prompted a query
as it seemed to the competitor as on a spur. At the gully end it
widened to become a reentrant. As often the case
there are options: the feature could fairly be described as gully end, reentrant upper part or spur foot,
but in this case the spur and reentrant were just
indicated by a very small bend in the contour on the map and the gully was the
main feature. I felt that in all cases the kite being visible if you were
close to the centre of the circle was sufficient. I’d be interested
if anyone else felt any of these gully/reentrant
controls were unfair.
Simultaneous
punching
A
very experienced and regular orienteer failed to have a record in their
non-contactless dibber despite being confident that the control had
beeped. However, another competitor with a SIAC card wafted past at the
same instant and their card started beeping at the same time. Is there a
possibility that the control firmware didn’t handle the two simultaneous
events properly?
Peter
Gorvett, SYO (petergorvett at hotmail dot co dot uk)
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