JK2012 Questionnaire

[madmike]

Won't Livingstone feel left out?

No he's been dead for years Livingston possibly

[Marco Polo]

Won't Livingstone feel left out?

No he's been dead for years Livingston possibly

Not 'possibly'- 'Presumably'

Apologies in advance..

[Mrs H]

Hah ha ha - oh I wish I'd thought of that

[Freefall]

With the votes from Azerbaijan finally counted I can reveal that everything has been taken into consideration and results have been analysed from the questionnaire (imperfect as it was) and compiled into a report. Many thanks to smf for all the hard work he put into helping prepare this report. Key findings (top percentages) are:

Q1 70% attendees were from elsewhere in the UK
Q2 63% found it very good booking their entry
Q3 27% found it good entering socials/ordering merchandise
Q4 76% travelled to the event by car
Q5 61% would not have used a centralised bus service
Q6 Stats on numbers in party
Q7 29% stayed in Pitlochry
Q8 26% were self catering
Q9 36% stayed in Scotland for 4 days
Q10 32% did no activity other than orienteering [I was surprised at such a high percentage]
Q11 81% would come back to Perthshire for a holiday
Q12 Average daily spend was nearly £67. Extrapolating this figure gives a total spend (local economy) of £910,000. This figure does not include other spend by the organisers on services e.g. loos, infrastructure improvements, parking charges, mappers, printers etc
Q13 23% have attended between 11-20 JKs
Q14 Individual days have best attendance (bit of an unnecessary question!)
Q15 Technical Aspects - table in report
Q16 Information and Programme table in report
Q17 84% did not use SportIdent live results [many didn’t know these were available]
Q18 43% accessed the internet daily
Q19 39% used computers to access the internet
Q20 76% didn’t use social networks to access information [Facebook share price plummets]
Q21 70% didn’t think it was important the event was held in a holiday destination
Q22 39% consider the JK is an orienteering festival (33% an important Level A domestic competition)
Q23 39% definitely would not take part in MTBO if it was included in the JK

The full report includes all user comments (good, bad or indifferent) and is available to download from the following http://www.scottish-orienteering.org/jk ... vey-report

I was aware of some shortcomings and in particular the need to improve on the whole race arena look and feel. Some rightly pointed out we seemed to get away with it (just). I wrote an article for Focus which due to space restrictions has been cut down. I am not sure which bits they cut out yet but I tried to explain reasons why certain things happened e.g. trader licence difficulties for Day 1, cows and calves splitting Day 2, massive storm damage on Day 3, Scotts doing a runner and not turning up with Wilf's lentils etc.