UK CUP

[Guest]

What is the UK cup please? Can't find anything on BOF site about it (as usual!)

[rob f]

the uk cup is an elite competition which works like the FCC and is aimed to find the top M/W20/21s in Britain. Points are scored over a series of about 10 events of varying distances and disiplines. The top 50 make the final and the winners will be decided by who wins the middle/classic.

[SIman]

There is information available from the BOF site, but you have to pretty persistent to find it in Events/under construction
What there is is a link to the UK Cup Web Site

[Guest]

the uk cup is an elite competition which works like the FCC and is aimed to find the top M/W20/21s in Britain. Points are scored over a series of about 10 events of varying distances and disiplines. The top 50 make the final and the winners will be decided by who wins the middle/classic.

The UK Cup does not have a final - the winner is the person with most points from their best 6 events at the end of the series.

[m]

Does it say anywhere which of the races next year are selection races?

[Dave H]

Mhairi, no final decisions have yet been made about next year's selection races. They will be discussed after WOC and should be finalised in time for Go for Gold.

[graeme]

UK Cup races - I couldn't find them anywhere except here!

March 12th TVOC Bloom Wood Middle
March 13th TVOC Hambledon National Long
March 26th WMOA Brown Clee JK Day 1 Middle WRE
March 27th WMOA Cannock Chase JK Day 2 Long WRE
April 9th BAOC/Peel Sandhurst BEOC Sprint
April 10th BAOC/Peel Sandhurst BEOC Middle
April 16th SWOA Penhale BEOC Long
May 7th SEOA Winterfold National Long
May 8th SEOA Long Valley World Cup Sprint

...all 4 hours+ down the M74/M6 Hope there are no new speed cameras .

May 28th SOA Aviemore National Long
June 5th YHOA York Sprint

I hope the last two are wrong. The Scottish Champs on May 28th are (probably) at Tentsmuir, Fife - lovely sanddunes as used for BOC 1979. What do you mean "I wasn't even born then".

June 5th is the day after the Harvester! Sprint race+ Harvester weekend is an attractive idea, but I dont think racing flat-out while half asleep across roads is a very good idea . Maybe its on the 4th?

Graeme

[Peter B]

The York Race should be on the Monday of the 2nd May Bank Holiday weekend i.e. 30th May

[Guest]

when the scottish champs relays are hmm

[samsonite]

scottish relays on a monday?

hmm

[Lil' God'rs]

I thought the Scottish Relays was on the Sunday - and as I'm the planner....

[Guest]

sorry

[Jon X]

...all 4 hours+ down the M74/M6 Hope there are no new speed cameras .

A rather shorter journey for the Scottish/northern contingent will be a weekend that applied for its races to have UK Cup status and was turned down (as southern races were chosen pre World Cup) - can I give an early plug for the following weekend of quality orienteering as a good start to the season:
March 5th JOK Chasing Sprint Touch Estate
March 6th FVO SOL1 Regional The Trossachs

[housewife]

Just as well we scots aren't whingers! Unlike the whinging that went on about having the BEOC in Inverness this year.

[lilywhite]

Oooh we are trying to stir something up aren't we