Event Development

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Event Development

• Andy Robinson and David May

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• BLUE

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Skiing
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Still skiing?

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• BLUE
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• NURSERY

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Orienteering and Skiing

• As many orienteers like TD3 courses as skiers who
  prefer blue runs
• Evidence
• Counter argument
• Historical argument

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TRAIL CHALLENGE

• THE ORIGINS
• letter from Mike Rodgers to CompassSport (August
  2001)
• NOW week 2002 encouraging us to think outside
  the box
• SLOW strategy review (decide on your target
  market)
• The name credit Paul Canham (SLOW publicity
  officer)

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TRAIL CHALLENGE

• THE CONCEPT
• it is orienteering
• easy navigation
• mass start
• event centre (showers, beer)

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TRAIL CHALLENGE

• THE CONCEPT (contd)
• map issue in advance
• race briefing
• prize ceremony
• SportIdent
• Courses marshals aiding back-markers

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JK competitors
30 of 1986-88 numbers (men)
45 of 1986-88 numbers (women)
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What TD is this?
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What is Sprint?

• Started with Park World Tour
• Adopted by IOF for 2001 WOC
• 12 -15 minute winning time (i.e. 3 km)
• 14000/5000 map scale
• Urban/park/forest terrain
• High control density (often 20 controls)
• Difficult at high speed

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Relevance to development

• Can hold events where most people live
• no need for special terrain
• One course suitable for many
• experts and beginners
• Easy to put on
• Just as good in summer as winter
• weekday evenings in summer too
• Events are visible
• others can see what we do!

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Implementation

• As part of a series
• In prologue plus Final (maybe chasing start)
  format
• Along with another event e.g. Frolic plus Sprint
• As a one-off event with several courses of
  different lengths
• could have 5/6 km courses with Sprint-type
  planning for instance

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Technical issues

• Ideally map to ISSOM standards
• Proximity of controls
• ask to vary the 30m/60m rule to make navigation
  more challenging
• Map individual trees to give more features
• Dummy controls
• Many direction changes
• Mini-route choices

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Sprint example
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Sprint example
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Mini-O in Russia