Orienteering

The Falcons Orienteering Club

Spring Super Challenge Series

The Spring of 2008 brings back the Tuesday Night Spring Challenger Series.

 The Spring Super Challenge Series

 Modeled after the Thomass Series which originated with the Ontario 1993 Junior program, this exciting navigation challenge was developed to help keep our orienteers sharp and to provide some orienteering fun for everyone.

The top finishers of each race receive points in decreasing scale starting from 50 points.  For example, if there are 15 participants, first place will get 50, second place - 49 etc.    An individual's top 4 races count toward their series total.  

The Events

 The Rules

• All events mass start at 6:15 pm on the event day.
• The time limit is 60 minutes – all controls will be picked up after this time.
• All participants must carry a safety whistle.   No whistle, no start!
• Pre-marked maps are guaranteed to all that pre-register.  
• Map cases may not be provided.   Please bring your own.
• To ensure competitiveness for all participants, each event will use a handicap system called The Challenger Box. Course setters will use their creativity to attempt to choreograph that elusive mass finish.

 The Challenger Box

Each race will feature a Challenger Box which consists of a set of controls labelled with letters (A,B,C etc) somewhere on the course. Participants may attack the controls in the box in any order.    Additionally, participants may drop controls equal to their handicap point total. 

 Handicap points are awarded as follows –

For example:

- A 46 year old female may drop 3 controls in the box.

- A 19 year old male may drop 1 control in the box

 The Entry

The cost for the entire series of 8 events is as follows:

Should you prefer to pay per event:

Pre-registering includes a pre-marked map. The adventure is free!

To pre-register for this series or if you wish to receive more information, please email sbouell@gmail.com

 The Question

 Are you up for the CHALLENGE?