BUCS 2013

[ba-ba]

BUCS (or BUC's for fans of errant apostrophes) Orienteering is in Sheffield this weekend.
Saturday: Individual on Burbage.
**Rubix Pop Tarts**
Sunday: Relays Greno.
(both areas should be faster than normal courtesy of recent snow)

final details etc. can be found here and will be updated throughout.

How will early-season UK-Scene pace-setter Jonny Crickmore get on? Will it be too cold for those that have been out in Portugal? How many Uni's will field full teams outside of ShUOC/EUOC/UDOC? Will Treb have to drink all of ShUOC's beer-race pints? Will Peter Hodkinson climb a wall, and if he does who will appeal!

I'm not making any predictions until I see a start-list, as who knows how many EUOCers are onto the 5th degree...

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[Simong]

I'm not sure anything has ever annoyed me more than that apostrophe and/or lack of capitalization over the last few months.

Personally I think EUOC have one final chance to shine with their top men before their chances rest on the shoulders of many great women. Assuming mharky doesnt bail.

GUOC for the future......

[*Carol*]

How many Uni's will field full teams outside of ShUOC/EUOC/UDOC?

The white army - LUOC!

Though we'll surely spend the most number of hours in the forest - even with a team half the size of ShuOC and EUOC

[Spookster]

How many Uni's will field full teams outside of ShUOC/EUOC/UDOC?

Not sure what a "full team" is, but here are the number of relay teams entered:

University of Edinburgh 11
University of Sheffield 7
University of Leeds 6
Oxford University 5
Durham University 4
University of Cambridge 4
Combined Services 3
University of Bristol 3
University of Liverpool 2
Sheffield Hallam University 2
University of Birmingham 2
Heriot-Watt University 1
University of Glasgow 1
Grand Total 51

[babs f]

Is there a start list for the Individual event somewhere?

[Spookster]

Is there a start list for the Individual event somewhere?

Not yet. That's my job for lunchtime/tonight.

[babs f]

Is there a start list for the Individual event somewhere?

Not yet. That's my job for lunchtime/tonight.

Or just a list of entries?

[Spookster]

Right then, who can give me the club abbreviations for these orienteering clubs?

Aberystwyth University
Heriot-Watt University
Imperial College London
Manchester Metropolitan University
Sheffield Hallam University
University of Leicester
University of Liverpool
University of Salford

[madmike]

Imperial are IOC

[daffdy]

Haven't got a clue for some of them! I think Liverpool is LUMC though (Mountaineering Club, source).

Can I put a request in for wordy university names rather than acronyms in things like start lists and results? Pleease? It worked well last year and saves a lot of confusion...

[Spookster]

Haven't got a clue for some of them! I think Liverpool is LUMC though (Mountaineering Club, source).

Can I put a request in for wordy university names rather than acronyms in things like start lists and results? Pleease? It worked well last year and saves a lot of confusion...

Unfortunately the results software we use (MERCS) only allows for club abbreviations (up to 6 characters). But I don't mind doing a search/replace to get the full names back into web results afterwards, if that's helpful.

In the absence of better suggestions, I'll go with:
ABER
HWATT
MANMET
HALLAM
LEICS
SALFD

[Marco Polo]

If abbreviations are used, I'm sure that LEIUOC and WATTOK have been used in the past.

[keever]

Right then, who can give me the club abbreviations for these orienteering clubs?

This isn't a club competition. The students aren't running for their club. They're running for their university.

[Spookster]

Right then, who can give me the club abbreviations for these orienteering clubs?

This isn't a club competition. The students aren't running for their club. They're running for their university.

Well ok then, so my question is about whether there are standard abbreviations for those universities...

[graeme]

Used to be HWUOC. Wattok's a mod.