Why not spend a few days in the beautiful Pembrokeshire National Park in SW Wales this May:
• Sat 20 May 17- Preseli Hills East (Nr Crymych) - Welsh League Level C event.
• Brown, Blue, Green, Light Green, Orange and Yellow Courses.
• Sun 21 May 17 - Tenby Urban Race - UK Urban league and Welsh league event.
• 7 x Courses including an adult beginner course.
See the event page at http://www.baoc.info/content/2017/01/09/Welsh-Weekend-20th-21st-May-2017-Preseli-and-Tenby for entry details. This event is hosted by BAOC on behalf of the WOA with assistance from some Welsh club members. We are also trialing a new online entry system from Chronotrack which allows you to have bespoke entry pages: See here: https://register.chronotrack.com/r/26399
Pembrokeshire Weekend 20/21 May 17
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Allan Farrington
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Re: Pembrokeshire Weekend 20/21 May 17
That'll be using SIAC then jajajaja
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Re: Pembrokeshire Weekend 20/21 May 17
Actually sticking to standard emit for Preseli, but then using the new Touch-Free emits for Urban in Tenby (as used at WOC 2016), but with mixed punching, so competitors can use either their own ecard on a touch basis or swap it for an etag and go touch free.
Personally I am not a great fan of mixed punching at higher level events yet, as being used at JK this year, it is forcing peoples hand to commit to buying one, it means if you want to have any chance of being at the top you need to have, or hire a Siac, how often has a race been won by just a few secs? The difference can be 1-2 secs per control and that will significantly affect all course probably up to 70+. Also means clubs have to have stocks of Siacs available at lower level events as gallopens etc can be just as competitive. might as well just factor the cost of the Siac into the entry fees and give everyone one, but that removes the incentive to buy one I suppose.
Personally I am not a great fan of mixed punching at higher level events yet, as being used at JK this year, it is forcing peoples hand to commit to buying one, it means if you want to have any chance of being at the top you need to have, or hire a Siac, how often has a race been won by just a few secs? The difference can be 1-2 secs per control and that will significantly affect all course probably up to 70+. Also means clubs have to have stocks of Siacs available at lower level events as gallopens etc can be just as competitive. might as well just factor the cost of the Siac into the entry fees and give everyone one, but that removes the incentive to buy one I suppose.
Allan Farrington
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Re: Pembrokeshire Weekend 20/21 May 17
Mr timE wrote: but then using the new Touch-Free emits for Urban in Tenby (as used at WOC 2016), but with mixed punching, so competitors can use either their own ecard on a touch basis or swap it for an etag and go touch free.
Do you have a control unit that will take both cards, or does this involve putting out two types of unit at each control?
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Re: Pembrokeshire Weekend 20/21 May 17
The new touch-free controls can be used with any version of an ecard from 1 to 6 by placing it on the outline of an ecard, the control light then flashes, or if you have a V6 ecard the ecard will also flash for 5 secs. The etag works from 75cms away when walking or 30cm is sprinting, control does not flash, but the etag does for 5 secs. You can punch at another control with an etag after 1.2secs, but obviously the etag will still be flashing from previous control for 5 secs. Extra punches not an issue as etag holds 500 reads.
Allan Farrington
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Re: Pembrokeshire Weekend 20/21 May 17
The flyer for the Pembrokeshire weekend will be appearing at events in the South soon...
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Re: Pembrokeshire Weekend 20/21 May 17
Now that I know that those controls work with ordinary brikkes, I will use mine instead of emitags at future MLC events. The time lost is minimal compared with the time I take overall and there is then no danger of emitag failure.
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Re: Pembrokeshire Weekend 20/21 May 17
babs f wrote:Now that I know that those controls work with ordinary brikkes, I will use mine instead of emitags at future MLC events. The time lost is minimal compared with the time I take overall and there is then no danger of emitag failure.
Oh how boringly sensible. Surely we can start a 12 page thread on the unfairness of your choice?
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Re: Pembrokeshire Weekend 20/21 May 17
....and, at many MLC events, the time lost due to not having an emitag will be somewhat less than the time spent helping soldiers from 22nd Signals.
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Re: Pembrokeshire Weekend 20/21 May 17
Just a thought but could a punching system be developed (SI or Emit) that ONLY gave an audible/visible confirmation when the correct control has been visited in the correct order for the course?
In this way we wouldn't need control numbers/codes visible on boxes.
Maybe it would make precise navigation a must and force people to get it right.
It would also have the benefit of making it harder for those people who insist on asking things like "is this number 145" to get round their courses.
22nd Signals may not approve though.
In this way we wouldn't need control numbers/codes visible on boxes.
Maybe it would make precise navigation a must and force people to get it right.
It would also have the benefit of making it harder for those people who insist on asking things like "is this number 145" to get round their courses.
22nd Signals may not approve though.
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Re: Pembrokeshire Weekend 20/21 May 17
Planning and controlling is well underway for the Pembrokeshire weekend... for those tempted to take in more of the Preseli Hills, this article will be of interest: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2017 ... m=facebook
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Re: Pembrokeshire Weekend 20/21 May 17
Please let us know if you plan to enter; the facebook invite is at: https://www.facebook.com/events/6966078 ... 680116845/
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Re: Pembrokeshire Weekend 20/21 May 17
The updated link to the website for entries & details is here: https://www.athlinks.com/event/pembrokeshire-weekend-189758
Allan Farrington
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Re: Pembrokeshire Weekend 20/21 May 17
DM wrote:Just a thought but could a punching system be developed (SI or Emit) that ONLY gave an audible/visible confirmation when the correct control has been visited in the correct order for the course?
That would likely require an amount of pre-configuration that people generally don't want to do. Onus should always be on the competitor to ensure they visit in the correct order. Also, what if a control gets nicked/fails? No more confirmation for the rest of the course!
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Re: Pembrokeshire Weekend 20/21 May 17
It does that on virtual O! but then there arent any numbers to check visually.
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