British Sprints

[ER]

Thank you so much. It worked! I can see them now.

[Arnold]

Great races today in glorious weather, well done to all involved.

Meanwhile, in Sweden, Ralph is doing quite well too:
http://eventor.orientering.se/Events/ResultList?eventId=3922&groupBy=EventClass

[HarryO]

No ranking points for the Final? There were last year! Here's hoping its an oversight...

[King Penguin]

Requires heats and finals to have been declared to BOF site as 2 separate events, I think, as one event cannot have 2 separate sets of points (at any one point in time, even though it seems they can be recalculated 52 times over the next year !)

Sorry, should also have said - many thanks to all at LEI involved in putting on a great event. The above was not intended as a complaint, jut what I think is an explanation.

[andypat]

Really enjoyable couple of sprint races yesterday, with weather to match. Well worth the trip South - thanks guys!

[Spookster]

No ranking points for the Final? There were last year! Here's hoping its an oversight...

Yes. Should be ranking points for the Heats and the Finals, but currently the Final has the rankings turned off. There's also a third event in the results database, which will be the combined age class results (so A, B and C finals merged back together to generate positions) used to determine UKOL points.

[Sloop]

IMHO there's no way that Heats should qualify for ranking points. The better you are the less hard you need to run, so weaker people get unfairly bigger points.

[roadrunner]

Very enjoyable events yesterday, the nice weather helped as well. A good contrast between the areas for the heats and the final, I found the latter a lot more technical (or was I just getting tired?)

One strange thing, though: on Routegadget, the controls (for the courses I ran, heat 3.2 and final A32) seem offset relative to the map, though on the competition maps they were fine.

[Ant W]

Meanwhile, in Sweden, Ralph is doing quite well too:
http://eventor.orientering.se/Events/ResultList?eventId=3922&groupBy=EventClass

Ralph was 13th in final, and Cat T got on the podium:

http://eventor.orientering.se/Events/Re ... EventClass

[Jayne]

Thanks LEIOC - great event and thoroughly enjoyed it. If we're looking for things to improve on the only thing I'd suggest was that it would have been nice if the finals for all the non open A courses could have been stated 15 mins or so later, so I could have got to see the winners finishing, but that's a fairly minor gripe about a great event.

Oh and like roadrunner, I've also found routegadget to be offset.

[DavidJ]

One strange thing, though: on Routegadget, the controls (for the courses I ran, heat 3.2 and final A32) seem offset relative to the map, though on the competition maps they were fine.

I noticed this as well but was able to plot my routes adequately.

[CrawfordL]

Great event. I found the heat easier than the final; managed to do the same as last year in the final and completely screw up control 1. Was looking for a metal fence rather than the wooden one it was on.

Also photos from the day here

https://picasaweb.google.com/108744356399445848928/BritishSprintChampionships2013

As ever please feel free to use, but credit the photographer as well. Thanks,

Crawford

[batty]

I'm surprised that noone has mentioned the lack of synchronisation in the timing of the controls.Splits of 1 second on some courses (control 12 M50 final) but there were others as well. Not that it really matters but for a British Championships seems a little odd. Hopefully the finish units were all the same.

[ba-ba]

Hopefully the finish units were all the same.

The right hand finish punch didn't register my punch in the heat - I punched it, thought 'that hasn't beeped', punched again, 'that definitely didn't beep' punched the other box. Cost me 6secs and 1 place but not a position in a certain final (although without one 15s mistake earlier on it might have!). As I have a V11 card I presumed the box had missed out on the firmware update.
I notified the event organiser, told him to tell the controller and get it checked out before the final (I'd already planned to use the L box in the finals, and spread the word to those I spoke to before the final to do the same - especially those with new cards)
Turns out Oli Johnson also lost 6 secs in the final punching the RH finish punch (thankfully not affecting position), so whether the box was dying or my information didn't reach the controller/SI team I don't know.

When you consider that, also at the weekend, Ralph won his SM sprint heat on the sprint to the finish, and that the SM sprint final was won on the sprint to the finish (by one second)...

[RS]

I too had 2 tries at the right hand one then went to the left(with latest version SI Card). Told a finish official and he shrugged. I passed the word around as we ll.