Tinto has just held its twentieth Tinto Twin - NIght and Day annual event. No mean feat for a small club. Some things are a lot easier - no more checking for pin marks in a wet tent for example. However, I am still amazed at how complicated staging an event is.
I suspect that some orienteers relish all the complexities involved, but I believe that the sport loses a lot of potential event officials when they realise just how much time, effort and responsibility is expected.
So, can we have some suggestions about how we can lessen the load? Perhaps different threads are needed for Entry Taking, Planning, Organising.
For example - Why do I have to send BOF and Badge Secretaries paper copies of Results when they are already online?
Simplification
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I think you raise a very important issue. I may be wrong but I think BOF Councillor Chris James has been arguing this theme for some time.
Perhaps that's why the Fixtures Review Group were proposing more events should have fewer courses whilst still achieving age class competition, thereby reducing the workload of the planner and controller as well as making errors less likely.
I offer as other simplification issues:
*the unnecessarily wide range of registration and start techniques used (which are often confusing to less experienced orienteers)
*the lack of a standard layout for event flyers
*the need for event signage other than from one advised road intersection
But we should also acknowledge earlier work such as SEFs, and using punching starts when you arrive at the start rather than selecting times at registration
Perhaps that's why the Fixtures Review Group were proposing more events should have fewer courses whilst still achieving age class competition, thereby reducing the workload of the planner and controller as well as making errors less likely.
I offer as other simplification issues:
*the unnecessarily wide range of registration and start techniques used (which are often confusing to less experienced orienteers)
*the lack of a standard layout for event flyers
*the need for event signage other than from one advised road intersection
But we should also acknowledge earlier work such as SEFs, and using punching starts when you arrive at the start rather than selecting times at registration
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Oldman wrote:Perhaps that's why the Fixtures Review Group were proposing more events should have fewer courses whilst still achieving age class competition, thereby reducing the workload of the planner and controller as well as making errors less likely.
We await the results of Events Group's reworking of those proposals to see how that pans out.
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Shame they're about to make life at local level a whole lot more complicated with the new insurance scheme 

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It's all about Barebones orienteering - check out The Purple Thistle as an example (which is returning for 2008 by the way so put it in your diary!)
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Mrs H wrote:Shame they're about to make life at local level a whole lot more complicated with the new insurance scheme
But surely that's an externally dictated change, which underlines the need for us to work to keep simple the things that are under our control.
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Oldman wrote:
But surely that's an externally dictated change,
How do we know that? There is no infomation about how much shopping around was done - but of course it suits BOf Central to have a scheme which surcharges non-members - and turns already hard pressed local event organisers into unpaid clerks on top of everything else. There must be a way of making it easier on the ground - but why would they care about that? More People, More Places, More Premiums!

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Mrs H wrote:There is no infomation about how much shopping around was done
I can't conceive that any insurance company would be willing to insure against incidents that arise without a way of knowing who the people were that they gave insurance cover to. But subject to that, perhaps more shopping around could have been done (and maybe was?).
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Wattok wrote:It's all about Barebones orienteering - check out The Purple Thistle as an example (which is returning for 2008 by the way so put it in your diary!)
That's good to hear- a link to a fuller description of the barebones festival and concept is here http://www.barebones.ca/
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Wattok wrote:The Purple Thistle ... is returning for 2008 by the way so put it in your diary
Can't consider putting in my diary until someone gives me a date to put it under!
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30th-31st August SOA The Purple Thistle Weekend
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Any clue as to where it will be?
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Scotland
Okay, more specifically it'll be on the West Coast. On an Island. Top quality terrain and planning, as ever. Hopefully weather good too.
Just a warning, I don't think that is the correct date, it is more likely to be the preceding (bank holiday) weekend.
More information will most likely follow early in the new year.

Okay, more specifically it'll be on the West Coast. On an Island. Top quality terrain and planning, as ever. Hopefully weather good too.
Just a warning, I don't think that is the correct date, it is more likely to be the preceding (bank holiday) weekend.
More information will most likely follow early in the new year.
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brooner wrote:more specifically it'll be on the West Coast. On an Island
You mean a real island? or somewhere with a bridge? Fingers crossed for South Uist - that would be awesome...
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