Northern Night Championships

[RJ]

The Northern Night Champs are on High Rigg in Cumbria on Feb 9. Entries via http://www.lakes-o.freeserve.co.uk. There is a District event on the Sunday at Hawse End on the side of Derwentwater. Two rather good venues! Plenty of B&Bs in Keswick for an overnight stay.

Are there any trophies out there for the Northern Nights, and are there any defending 'champs' expected to enter? Or will WCOC runners take all the accolades?

Please indicate your intention to turn up via the website! Just need to know how many maps to print!!

[MarkM]

What are the eligibility requirements for the Championships (is Scotland northern enough)?

[RJ]

Mmmmmm.....

As far as I know, anyone can be a Northern Champion. I don't think you have to be a member of a club in YHOA, NEOA and NWOA. You just have to be good enough to beat all comers!! Scotland look at it rather differently.... ahem!!

[Marco Polo]

Mmmmmm.....

As far as I know, anyone can be a Northern Champion. I don't think you have to be a member of a club in YHOA, NEOA and NWOA. You just have to be good enough to beat all comers!! Scotland look at it rather differently.... ahem!!

very generous, to win the midland nights you have to from EAOA, WMOA, EMOA or of course... Wales.

[Tatty]

You can win the race but to be Northern champion you have to be a mamber of YHOA, NWOA or NEOA ie a northern BOF Region!!

[Mrs H]

to win the midland nights you have to from EAOA, WMOA, EMOA or of course... Wales.

yes I've always found that very odd - why don't the Welsh have their own championship - when has Wales ever been in The Midlands?

[Tatty]

Don't they have Welsh championships? Shouldn't have two

[mharky]

it's above the south, it's below the north: it's in the middle...

[Mrs H]

I can see your logic - but by the same logic Scots would be elligible for the Northern champs being in the north - but that does not appear o be the case.

[greywolf]

You can win the race but to be Northern champion you have to be a mamber of YHOA, NWOA or NEOA ie a northern BOF Region!!

Scotland look at it rather differently.... ahem!!

You don't have to be a member of SOA to be Scottish champion - you can qualify if you were born here or have a Scottish parent.
http://www.scottish-orienteering.org/in ... uidelines/
http://www.scottish-orienteering.org/in ... ships-soc/

If all 5 regions (inc NI) had the same eligibility rules then in theory you could be champion of all five

[ifor]

Lets be practicle here the northern southern and midland night champs as they are strugle to get reasonable numbers, a welsh champs would be a very select event, I belive wales regularly host the midland nights. If your eligable for a cup is niether here nor there realy, you go to the event because you will get a proper age classed night event with a good length of course. If you want that there are only realy 5 or 6 oportunities in the year although with the fixture clash this year we are one down.... The bigest atended night event of the year most years is probobly the Army Champs or the Harvester.

[Adventure Racer]

For us slightly older ones, not being eligible just means you might as well run up (when fit) and get better value for money (on the basis of the usual argument on here that the longer you spend in the woods, the better the VFM )

[King Penguin]

If all 5 regions (inc NI) had the same eligibility rules then in theory you could be champion of all five

Not quite sure how you get to be eligible for 5 e.g.
mother born in one, father born in a 2nd, yourself born in a 3rd, now resident/member in a 4th.
Where's the 5th come from ?

[graeme]

Where's the 5th come from ?

Recursion, i.e. it depends what a Scottish parent is, doesn't it?

[greywolf]

Where's the 5th come from ?

2 clubs?

it's hardly a big deal for the area night champs, but (if every area has rules like SOA) as in the future the area champs are apparently going to be top-quality all-singing all-dancin affairs that we absolutely must all attend it seems fairly likely that individuals could hold multiple area championships. Which may or may not be sensible. Not going to be me, anyway