Compass Sport Cup & Trophy 2014

[alanbrett]

Entry deadline for the qualifying round at Broxbourne hosted by CHIG extended to tomorrow Tuesday.

Entries per club as at 14:00 today: http://chig.org.uk/home/o-calendar/fixt ... iers-2014/

[alanbrett]

Congrats to HH for qualifying for the Cup final and SUFFOC and SOS for the Trophy final at Broxbourne today.

[SeanC]

Nice event. Thanks. I think you need to put 50p in your server meter.

[seabird]

Congratulations to SYO (Cup) and EPOC (Trophy) for making the final at a brilliant event at Guisecliffe today. Thank you CLARO.

SYO defeated 3 finalists from last year, LOC, AIRE and CLOK. EPOC defeated 2 finalists form last year, PFO and NN.

[oo_wrong_way]

Congratulations to SN (Cup) and WIM (Trophy) for winning at the New Forest event. And weren't the weather gods kind to us?

Full results available here.

[alanbrett]

Nice event. Thanks. I think you need to put 50p in your server meter.

Yes My upload of the event results to BOF caused an Internal Server error on the BOF website too! Will try again in a bit. Meanwhile ...

Todays results
Winsplits http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/ ... seId=29335
Splitsbrowser http://www.splitsbrowser.org.uk/splitsg ... entId=7055

Routegadget http://www.chig.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#33
BOF Ranking Points: http://www.britishorienteering.org.uk/i ... eday=62407
Cup:
1st HH 2429
2nd SLOW 2405
3rd WAOC 2301
4th NOR 1362

Trophy:
1st SUFFOC 1252
2nd SOS 1249
3rd SMOC 1244
4th HAVOC 1209
5th MV 1110
6th CHIG 1102
7th SAX 1026
8th DFOK 968
9th LOK 471

Results to follow on CHIG website and BOF website when they come back online. Routegadget pending a map being received.

[sloaner]

Holders BOK go through as winners of South West Heat (along with Devon who came 2nd!)

SARUM through in the Trophy

[Blonde bombshell]

Why on earth were LOC in the YHOA heat when the NWOA heat was just down the motorway?
The NWOA heat had only 2 NW teams with 2 teams from the Midlands. Hardly a regional heat! It seems very strange to have 3 teams from the 2013 final together with SYO (recent winners for many years) in the same heat.

[smf]

Why on earth were LOC in the YHOA heat when the NWOA heat was just down the motorway?
The NWOA heat had only 2 NW teams with 2 teams from the Midlands. Hardly a regional heat! It seems very strange to have 3 teams from the 2013 final together with SYO (recent winners for many years) in the same heat.

There is no such thing as a regional heat. Clubs can choose which heat they would like to take part in (but they won't necessarily get their first choice). BL for example chose to go to the heat held by FVO in Scotland.

[Tatty]

SWOA heat only had 2 clubs in the Cup. NGOC came all the way up to the New Forest. Sarum, who are very close to the New Forest went al the wy down to Devon. Not sure how these groupings were decided!

[RichT]

Lakeland put down its regional NWOA heat first and YHOA round second on its CSC entry form.

Due to neither EMOA nor EAOA hosting a regional round, and the NWOA having a numbers limit, then I believe DVO & NOC were allocated NWOA round and Lakeland bumped to YHOA. It was a similar distance but an extra 30 mins time to give the club over 2 hours travelling.

Needless to say we struggled to convince all members that the trip would be worthwhile, and combined with a lot of juniors going sick we struggled to get out a full team.

Congratulations to SYO on mobilising their club.

[Forest Gump]

The Scottish round of the Compass Sport Cup/Trophy was held in glorious sunshine (with some snow on the ground) at South Archray Forest near Aberfoyle.

Results etc. are available on the FVO website at http://fvo.org.uk/events/2014/feb/16/co ... th-achray/.

Results of the CSC below

Cup
1st MAROC 2356
2nd GRAMP 1170

Trophy
1st FVO 1284
2nd CLYDE 1263
3rd BL 1144
4th TAY 912
5th AYROC 635
6th ECKO 578
7th KFO 467
8th ELO 460

[Glucosamine]

Also enjoyed finding controls in the sunshine in Herts, thankyou. What is the current split between cup and trophy club sizes? While size is no absolute predictor of quality (remembering the rankings club rankings), I'm always a little surprised by which some of the clubs which are in the trophy competition.

[MIE]

Also enjoyed finding controls in the sunshine in Herts, thankyou. What is the current split between cup and trophy club sizes? While size is no absolute predictor of quality (remembering the rankings club rankings), I'm always a little surprised by which some of the clubs which are in the trophy competition.

From the 2014 rules:

1.2.2 Entry to the Trophy competition shall be limited to those clubs with 125
or fewer members of British Orienteering. For this purpose individual Senior and
Junior members each count as one member.
The count only includes Juniors in classes M/W12 and above

[SeanC]

Some statistics related to the other threads.

21 of the trophy clubs had full teams
15 didn't have a full team of 13 scorers.

At the Yorkshire and North West rounds all 9 trophy teams had a full team of 13 scorers. South East and Scotland had the most incomplete teams.

Dropping the number of qualifing scorers by two to 11 for the trophy would mean 30 full trophy teams and 6 partial teams.

Hopefully next year, moving the date away from half term will increase the number of full trophy teams.

All but one of the rounds used Autodownload. Presumably any changes to software for rule changes would have to be done by SportIdent, and that would be a cost past on to competitors rather than someone volunteering to change the software?

Even though SEOA had more incomplete teams than the other rounds except Scotland, turnout for these clubs was much better than for equivalent South East League events (high quality level C/B regional events).

Well done to CHIG for using both Broxbourne and Wormley woods, they could probably have used just Broxbourne without need for road crossings and extra mapping costs, but adding Wormley made it a much better course IMHO.