dustytoo wrote:Clearly what we need is an app, onto which a cutdown 'map' of forbidden areas and uncrossable features is loaded. When you transgress a shrill nagging voice shouts 'Back! Get back!' If only...
Can I be the voice please?
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dustytoo wrote:Clearly what we need is an app, onto which a cutdown 'map' of forbidden areas and uncrossable features is loaded. When you transgress a shrill nagging voice shouts 'Back! Get back!' If only...
canol wrote: If you see others doing it, why not call out to them that the feature is uncrossable or OOB? If they are never disqualified, some people will never learn.
canol wrote:
I have shouted to other competitors at races that they are in the out of bounds when seen. There are usually two responses- genuine mistake, maybe an apology and get out of oob asap, or a variety of swear words and just carries on cheating. I have given up raising this at events so if there was a definitive way of identifying transgressors I would be happy.
canol wrote: Is gps accurate enough that this competitor could be dsq post race?
andypat wrote:canol wrote: If you see others doing it, why not call out to them that the feature is uncrossable or OOB? If they are never disqualified, some people will never learn.
No please please PLEASE don't! That I can remember, I have been shouted at twice and actually physically impeded once... by other competitors in urban or sprint races who thought I was doing something illegal. ... In NONE of these cases was I doing anything wrong!! … Its really annoying and off putting - seriously just concentrate on your own race. If you want to note a number do so and report at the end.
Snail wrote:
I've also been told I was OOB when I wasn't - once quite recently when the person was gracious enough to come up to me later and admit he was wrong - but in that situation I just check where I am and carry on. If I was really OOB, by mistake, I would be grateful to them.
Snail wrote:I know that shouting might technically be against rule 9.11 (although that rule was written about away control sites rather than this situation), but the point is that most breaches are mistakes rather than deliberate cheating. Someone accidentally entering an OOB area whose attention is drawn to it will probably then stop and go another way. If you don't alert them, and the continued breach results in loss of permission for future events, wouldn't that loss be as much your fault as theirs?
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