Yes it's happened.
Lucy Butt and Ralph Street.
Climbing a rope, archery, balancing along a plank with a staff over your shoulde (as per Little John), firing onions out of a catapult through a hole in a wall, pulling on a rope to open a portcullis and a spot-the-difference competition with the logo for the event.
Hog roast OK.
Overall good value, with a noname top and limitless supplies of Red Bull (if you like that sort of thing).
Orienteering's cool younger brother?
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The time spent eating the hog roast and drinking Red Bull (or not, they had cooled water as well) gave plenty of opportunity to do the orienteering sales pitch to those non-orienteers who had really enjoyed themselves and wanted to do it again. Look out EBOR, SYO, SLOW, NOC and Southdown (this was testing my geography a bit, trying to match up their hometown with an orienteering club).
I also spent a few minutes of my course talking to a family group from Wakefield who were out for a walk and were peering at one of the controls when I arrived at it. I explained what I was doing and talked about the different courses at ordinary O events. They liked the sound of it, so look out AIRE (I hope that's the right answer).
All in all, an excellent opportunity to spread the word about how much fun orienteering is.
We met two competitors who were there for the sole purpose of being able to write articles about the event, one for a running magazine, don't know who the other one was writing for. I assume that they were doing this for Red Bull.
Apparently Red Bull are planning a similar event next year, as they were impressed with how smoothly everything went. Unfortunately, "similar" seems to mean a similar cap on the number of competitors (or so someone told us) - perhaps one of the orienteers involved could persuade them to expand it. I thought that there might be a queue for the challenges, but I didn't meet one - did anyone else? The start was placed in such a way that orienteers scattered in all directions - well done Andy Llewellyn. Interestingly, there were 480 points available, but the highest score was 380. I feel that this could have confused the planning of those competitors (not me!) who usually expect to clear all of the controls at a score event.
I also spent a few minutes of my course talking to a family group from Wakefield who were out for a walk and were peering at one of the controls when I arrived at it. I explained what I was doing and talked about the different courses at ordinary O events. They liked the sound of it, so look out AIRE (I hope that's the right answer).
All in all, an excellent opportunity to spread the word about how much fun orienteering is.
We met two competitors who were there for the sole purpose of being able to write articles about the event, one for a running magazine, don't know who the other one was writing for. I assume that they were doing this for Red Bull.
Apparently Red Bull are planning a similar event next year, as they were impressed with how smoothly everything went. Unfortunately, "similar" seems to mean a similar cap on the number of competitors (or so someone told us) - perhaps one of the orienteers involved could persuade them to expand it. I thought that there might be a queue for the challenges, but I didn't meet one - did anyone else? The start was placed in such a way that orienteers scattered in all directions - well done Andy Llewellyn. Interestingly, there were 480 points available, but the highest score was 380. I feel that this could have confused the planning of those competitors (not me!) who usually expect to clear all of the controls at a score event.
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Well that all sounds great. It's good to know about all those cool things that our insurance covers . While we're on characters invented on Sir Walter Scott: Red Bull Rob Roy anyone?
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We did have to sign an A4 form, 2/3 full of text, disclaiming Red Bull from everything.
We quite fancy persuading Red Bull to being involved in something in the Malverns. Anyone know any local characters?
Today the local Robin Hood enactment society were out in big numbers, so we need the Worcestershire/Herefordshire equivalent - what characters have we had in the Malverns?
We quite fancy persuading Red Bull to being involved in something in the Malverns. Anyone know any local characters?
Today the local Robin Hood enactment society were out in big numbers, so we need the Worcestershire/Herefordshire equivalent - what characters have we had in the Malverns?
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Full results anywhere?
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babs f wrote:What characters did we have in the Malverns?
Did you mean characters or Caractacus?
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There are some spectacularly positive comments on Facebook. Nice to see. https://www.facebook.com/events/310146685859442/?fref=ts
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meanwhile, a fairly hilarious article from the Nottingham Post:
http://www.nottinghampost.com/Onion-cat ... story.html
http://www.nottinghampost.com/Onion-cat ... story.html
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Results are going up tomorrow I think.
Think red bull were very pleased with how it went and the feedback received from competitors so we'll wait to see the outcome from their further internal review etc.
The course was planned to deliberately be too much for 75 minutes so everyone (i.e. not just non-elite orienteers) was forced to think about which controls to drop or risk overcooking it. Hopefully it kept everyone on their toes as with the number of controls and size of the area there was lots of scope to tweak the route as you went round.
Think red bull were very pleased with how it went and the feedback received from competitors so we'll wait to see the outcome from their further internal review etc.
The course was planned to deliberately be too much for 75 minutes so everyone (i.e. not just non-elite orienteers) was forced to think about which controls to drop or risk overcooking it. Hopefully it kept everyone on their toes as with the number of controls and size of the area there was lots of scope to tweak the route as you went round.
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Nothing but positive comments from me.
Planning was excellent, definitely kept me on my toes! After this, I'm totally sold on score orienteering as an exciting (but occasional) format for big events - all you need is good planning and a big enough area for it to be a challenge to everyone, elites included! Really nice to all start and finish together - gave lots of time for food, beer, Red Bull and socialising.
Challenges certainly added another dimension to it - and no I didn't queue once either, although there was a little queue at the archery shortly after the start, as I was leaving.
It was nice to see the Red Bull team and some of British Orienteering's non-orienteer staff members engage with the event, and became clear that Red Bull are committed to organising this, or similar events in future years as well.
With all the cameras, GoPros and copter-cams floating about, hopefully they've got some good footage that could be used for promO in the future.
Great day out, and if each of the newcomers goes back home, raves to their friends or bring back somebody new next year then I think it's a success. Events like this could help enormously to change the public face of orienteering from a walk in the park to a fast-paced and exciting competitive sport.
Planning was excellent, definitely kept me on my toes! After this, I'm totally sold on score orienteering as an exciting (but occasional) format for big events - all you need is good planning and a big enough area for it to be a challenge to everyone, elites included! Really nice to all start and finish together - gave lots of time for food, beer, Red Bull and socialising.
Challenges certainly added another dimension to it - and no I didn't queue once either, although there was a little queue at the archery shortly after the start, as I was leaving.
It was nice to see the Red Bull team and some of British Orienteering's non-orienteer staff members engage with the event, and became clear that Red Bull are committed to organising this, or similar events in future years as well.
With all the cameras, GoPros and copter-cams floating about, hopefully they've got some good footage that could be used for promO in the future.
Great day out, and if each of the newcomers goes back home, raves to their friends or bring back somebody new next year then I think it's a success. Events like this could help enormously to change the public face of orienteering from a walk in the park to a fast-paced and exciting competitive sport.
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Overheard from some boy to his friend at the start: "Apparently some people are going to run". I pointed out that we had the female GB Sprint Orienteering champion competing, as well as several other members of the GB squad, and that I (an overweight W55) would also be (doing my best attempt at) running. I hope he changed his mind as to what the event was about.
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Superb format and an excellent event.
All involved to be heartily congratulated.
Great Sponsorship, demonstrating what a true sponsored event should be like.
More, more and even more please.
Demographic looks to be exactly what's usually missing from Orienteering events, with the exception of the odd old fart, like me, who found their way there despite the social media advertising
All involved to be heartily congratulated.
Great Sponsorship, demonstrating what a true sponsored event should be like.
More, more and even more please.
Demographic looks to be exactly what's usually missing from Orienteering events, with the exception of the odd old fart, like me, who found their way there despite the social media advertising
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A pity they closed the entries early and without saying there was a cap on numbers in the pre - event info.
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LostAgain wrote:Great Sponsorship, demonstrating what a true sponsored event should be like.
More, more and even more please.
What LostAgain said! Brilliant event.
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