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v2 issue date 5 Jan 2014
Final details issue date 17 Feb 2014
Controller's comments
I hope you all enjoyed your run over Pippingford. From the many comments I
received afterwards, Ian’s courses were really appreciated. Most of the
longer courses had considerable variety of leg length including one long
leg over 1.5km. It seems that once you had opened the map up enough to see
where the end of the leg was, you liked the variety of the terrain it
crossed and it kept your concentration throughout. There were favourable
comments on Mike Elliot’s map too and with controls placed by Ian to be
reasonably visible, rather than hidden for example in small pits,
virtually all errors at controls I heard about were attributed to the
orienteer. This suggests that the fairness box was ticked.
You will all have appreciated that there were a lot of controls out in the
forest, many not on your course seeking to tempt you off your chosen route
to visit them only to be disappointed. Indeed, with 166 controls used for
the two events, 130 of which featured during the Day event, my task as
Controller seemed rather daunting at first. It was only made possible with
the considerable help from Katy Stubbs and team who Controlled the British
Nights event. For the final pre-event check, we divided the controls by
area rather than event and I am particularly grateful for her
contribution. Katy also alerted me to the opportunity to create a control
checking course using Purple Pen for my visit on Saturday. In glorious
sunshine, I set off with 3 cleared dibbers for control 1 of 82 to be
visited that afternoon. Imagine how long a loose control description sheet
would have been. There were deer everywhere, from the first leg to the
very last one. If any were the same animal, they would have completed the
whole of the Green course, and probably done well in the results!
Mike Bolton’s team worked tremendously hard to ensure all ran smoothly on
the day. It should not be underestimated what a challenge it is to run a
Night and Day event together, using different Assembly areas, but somehow
the team kept on going until the relief showed after the last competitor
had returned.
As you can perhaps tell from the above, it was both a pleasure and a
privilege to be able to control this event and get many exposures to such
a great area for orienteering.
Andrew Evans, DFOK
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Mole Valley Orienteering Club