I would like to say thanks to all the team at WCH who put on the event at Shugborough yesterday - I thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought the planning was very good - parkland with a mix of typical Cannock woodland made the run very enjoyable. The organisation on the day was very good, I liked the use of computer screens to display the results, the only snag with those is it takes a while to display the relevant information if each monitor is displaying 2 courses with about 3 screens for each course! However good use of technology.
Overall, a very good event, I really enjoyed it so thanks once again to WCH. I'm sure combining the event with a visit to the Shugborough Estate was an additional positive note for some orienteers.
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Totally agree Peter and have said as much to Stodge. Had to walk the orange with post-op knee and couldn't have picked a better event to do that at - plenty to enjoy in the lovely parkland.....but I was a little envious when I studied Young Nev's green course. A super event - and EVO to boot - home in time for roast chicken, a glass or three of Merlot and Monarch of the Glen - perfect day 

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Here here. Good YBT courses and good result for us. Two problems. First totally out of WCH control-the bracken-wouldn't the Chase be perfect if there were no bracken! Secondly the cows- I know they had some frisky bullocks moved however I had to escort a petrified lad to and beyond his first control as the cows were nuzzling it and infact had uprooted it. I could see how terrifying they might be to a 7 or 8 year old, particularly the way they leap back when you approach.
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Thanks for the kind comments about the courses.
Cows ...hmmmm yes noping things. They were very passive running up to the event, but were a pain in the neck on the day - next time we'll try and get them moved too.
They bent 6 control stakes almost to right angles on saturday night. What they must get upto when we are all in our beds !!
Thanks to Fatboy for running the SI using Autodownload and Live results whilst I did my planner stuff.
edit - oh and thanks to all who came all 433 of you !
Cows ...hmmmm yes noping things. They were very passive running up to the event, but were a pain in the neck on the day - next time we'll try and get them moved too.
They bent 6 control stakes almost to right angles on saturday night. What they must get upto when we are all in our beds !!
Thanks to Fatboy for running the SI using Autodownload and Live results whilst I did my planner stuff.
edit - oh and thanks to all who came all 433 of you !
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...thanks to all the team at WCH ...planning was very good ...
Yes, well done Stodge et al, much appreciated.
70 controls for a District Event was an impressive effort. And lots of clustered controls like at a relay. All too easy to make 10 seconds error here and 15 secs there if you weren't concentrating.
A great advert for orienteering.
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Peter B may think the refresh rate is slow but if he was to compare with a paper print and a man with bucket of paste it must push paper based displays well into the ark.
I didn't find that much bracken, certainly not of the junior eating variety.
I didn't find that much bracken, certainly not of the junior eating variety.
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Yes good event and thanks to WCH (& esspecially Will Viles for misspunching) for letting us go through (HOC)
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Re: Shugborough
Peter B wrote:the use of computer screens to display the results, the only snag with those is it takes a while to display the relevant information if each monitor is displaying 2 courses with about 3 screens for each course!
Just been doing some tweaks to this today to help some of the issues at the weekend, which were actually few and far between

Just to remind everybody the Live Results is FREE and available at the URL below.
Cheers to Stodge for a great course which I got to enjoy a large chunk of on my own starting way after last start.
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Fat Boy. What sort of speed computer were you using? Were the results of the server? How do you ensure protection from the elements, or is usage in the field dependant on 'good' elements.
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I think the computer was a 400MHz Pentium II - quite old and it really wasn't man enough for this number of competitors, particularly with the added strain of doing the YBT calculations (which were being done far too frequently in hindsight). Stodge is going to try and source a more powerful one for future.
The results are taken from IOF standard XML so can be exported from any software supporting that standard which includes OE200x. Essentially the "server" (Stodge's laptop) in the download tent pushes out a new version of that XML at periodic intervals (we chose 2 mins), then the display computer picks that up every cycle through the results. We set it up so the server pushes the file onto the display computer so that if the network goes down the results stay up. However one tweak I've just done is that if it fails to re-read the file at any point it just goes on another cycle with the results it had before (which will hopefully stop it appearing to hang).
I've had nothing to do with the development of the rabbit hutch. From looking at it if it really rained the kit would get wet, but throwing an army style tarpaulin over it with a few guy ropes would probably sort that out.
The results are taken from IOF standard XML so can be exported from any software supporting that standard which includes OE200x. Essentially the "server" (Stodge's laptop) in the download tent pushes out a new version of that XML at periodic intervals (we chose 2 mins), then the display computer picks that up every cycle through the results. We set it up so the server pushes the file onto the display computer so that if the network goes down the results stay up. However one tweak I've just done is that if it fails to re-read the file at any point it just goes on another cycle with the results it had before (which will hopefully stop it appearing to hang).
I've had nothing to do with the development of the rabbit hutch. From looking at it if it really rained the kit would get wet, but throwing an army style tarpaulin over it with a few guy ropes would probably sort that out.
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