Relay Maps
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Relay Maps
Great idea from Matthias Mahr, planner of today's Junior Inter-Regional relays, removing the need for me (controller) to check for potentially race-voiding mismatches between labels and the printed courses.
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Roger - diehard
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Re: Relay Maps
If you look carefully at this year's JK relay maps you will find the gaffle "hidden" in the event details next to the event number. This ensures that the labeling party and controller can match gaffle with runner number easily, but the competitors can't spot it to compare notes. It can also be seen by peaking in the corner to allow final checking.
For an event as large as the JK the timing of map printing and the frequent changes of class would not make it particularly efficient to print the lap detail on the map I feel.
How did you actually do this Arnold - some sort of clever print script that sent the lap details to the printer along with the map file? Or did you have to edit each map separately and then then effectively print loads of individual maps?
For an event as large as the JK the timing of map printing and the frequent changes of class would not make it particularly efficient to print the lap detail on the map I feel.
How did you actually do this Arnold - some sort of clever print script that sent the lap details to the printer along with the map file? Or did you have to edit each map separately and then then effectively print loads of individual maps?
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Re: Relay Maps
The team / lap number is auto-generated when the individual map files are created at print time (in this case, from the OCAD course-setting module). The gaffles are created at the same time. No manual matching or editing required. Just put a placeholder for the team number in the right place, fold over the corner, fold and seal the map with some random kiddies' stickers (optional), job done.
We did put the gaffle identifiers on the map too, partly to enable us to spot-check that the combinations were what we expected -- the pseudo-random allocation in OCAD 12 is different from that in OCAD 9! -- and partly so that competitors would know afterwards what they'd run. But we could have omitted them completely and everything would have worked just fine.
We did put the gaffle identifiers on the map too, partly to enable us to spot-check that the combinations were what we expected -- the pseudo-random allocation in OCAD 12 is different from that in OCAD 9! -- and partly so that competitors would know afterwards what they'd run. But we could have omitted them completely and everything would have worked just fine.
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