Guidelines for level 2 events in 2010

[Roger]

I'm planning Chiltern Challenge 2010, and for the event flyer I need to specify the courses that will be on offer. So far, so good: it's our premier event so I'll use the full set of courses as defined by Event Guideline B (described as 'Effective January 2009 DRAFT'), although as there's no TD5 terrain sufficiently close to the finish I'll probably combine light green and short green.

The Chiltern Challenge Trophy is calculated from age classes, so I have to define those. Again, no problem: the nice table in the guideline specifies a reasonable mapping. Short brown for M20 (along with M18, M45, M50 and W21) seems a bit short, but there are always those inexperienced students to consider.

The problem comes with M21S etc., which are described in the table as "old 'S' Classes". If they were 'old' for the transitional year, surely they should be dropped in post-transition 2010? The only reason to assign 'S' classes to the relevant courses would be if they were still required for ranking purposes in 2010. Does anyone know whether or not they will be? If not, then the 'short' runners can now choose a course to suit them from the whole range rather than be directed at only one course.

I'm assuming that the results will be presented by both course and age-class. I've suggested that in the age-class results, anyone running in a higher course than the one specified for their age-class should be listed in the weakest class for which they're eligible, and anyone running a course below their designated one should be listed as 'Open'. So for example in the age-class results for short brown, an M16 would be included in the M18 class results (and identified as being M16), a W40 would be listed among the W21s and an M35 would be listed as 'Open'. Is there a better way?

The ranking question is the more urgent, as the mapping of ages to courses needs to be defined in the pre-event publicity. Pointers to relevant BOF documents, or even just wild speculation, are welcome.