Night Street League

Informal after-dark urban orienteering, controls normally numbers on street furniture.

Each event will normally consist of a 60 minute score with a mass start, normally 7:00pm. Late starts will be permitted but the common finish time will still apply. Exceptions to this format may be permitted by special pleading to the Co-ordinator.

A headlamp / torch is highly advisable, but it need not be a full-power terrain night-O one. You should also wear a light / reflective top to help ensure you are seen. Whistles are also required.

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The Night Street League Co-ordinator is John Leeson

Unfortunately, the finale of the 2019/20 NSL season, a run in a new area at St Johns in Worcester, which had been organised by Ian Pickering, had to be cancelled at short notice due to the Covid 19 crisis. Nevertheless, with the help of some experienced, and some new, organisers, and our colleagues at NGOC, we managed to still put on a series of nine races across our area, which attracted a total of 65 runners who completed 168 runs between them.
The prize for the best attendance at the series goes to James Thomas who organised the first event and then competed in the remaining eight events. Mandy Mackereth, Richard Price and Peter Langmaid also competed in eight events each and John Leeson and Robert Vickers managed seven each.
The ladies series was won by Mandy Mackereth, followed by Eloise Lee and then Marian White.
The runaway winner of the men's series was Richard Price who had a perfect total of 175 points from seven counting races. John Leeson came second and James Thomas third.
Two juniors, Kieran Rose and Jacob Shabir, competed in a couple of events with parental supervision.
I have suggested to the HOC committee that we present awards to veteran members in men's and ladies categories and will advise on this after the next committee meeting. The experiment of using BP factors that I tried last year doesn't really work very well as the factors were applied to a points score, rather then to a time or the points scored in individual races.
Looking at the numbers of runners at each event it looks like events outside the Birmingham conurbation were popular, perhaps due to being more accessible to non-club members.
We had considerable interest from independent runners, particularly at the Droitwich event, where several independents enjoyed themselves so much that they turned up at the following week's WEE event at a very muddy Arrow Valley, and thoroughly enjoyed that too.
We were lucky enough to have three MapRun format events in this years series, and it appears that this is an excellent tool for organisers and participants. Maybe this will be the future of NSL events but we will need to obtain a few old smartphones for some competitors to use.
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all of the organisers of the events for taking on this task without which we wouldn't have a series. We had some very convivial meals in pubs after the events, which were well attended and I'd like to think that these meals keep the social side of the club going during the winter months.
I will be hoping to put on a similar series of races next winter by which time I'm sure we all hope that we will be competing again. In the meantime keep fit and healthy and wash your hands frequently!
John Leeson
NSL Coordinator

Final League table after all 9 events

2019 - 2020 Programme (all Thursdays unless stated otherwise)

	Date	Venue	Organiser	Details	Results
1	07 Nov	Stockland Green	James Thomas	Details	Results
2	14 Nov	St Peter's Hill, Worcester	Rob & Kath Atkins	Details	Results
3	21 Nov	Kings Heath, Birmingham	John Leeson	Details	Results
4	05 Dec	Church Hill, Redditch	Peter Rose	Details	Results
5	09 Jan	Worcester	Robert Rose	Postponed
6	23 Jan	Droitwich	Colin Palmer	Details	Results
7	06 Feb	Quinton	Adrian Bailey	Details	Results
8	20 Feb	Malvern Maprun	Brian Laycock & Mike Farrington	Details About Maprun	Results
9	05 Mar	Worcester City Centre	Robert Rose	Details	Results
10	12 Mar	Ledbury Maprun	NGOC	Details	Raw results (under the Leader Board link) | Results with HOC rules applied
11	19 Mar	Worcester St John's	Ian Pickering	Details v2 issued 16 Mar

Rules

1. Each event will normally be a score event with a 60 minute time limit, with penalties for late returns. Late starts will be allowed but the common finish time will still apply.
2. The former long, medium and short course trophies will be awarded to the highest-ranked Harlequins based on their performances relative to their Bert Pardoe handicaps.
3. This is a street competition not night orienteering. The majority of events should take place in towns, streets or on paths. Short, safe stretches in open country where powerful torches are not needed may be acceptable, but must not become the norm. If competitors are sent outside towns the organizer should consider the safety of possible route choices.
4. The planner scores 10 points; max. one such score per runner per season. If anyone plans more than one event in a season, for the second and subsequent events they plan they will receive the highest score they have achieved at an event where they actually ran.
5. In the event of a dispute the NSL Coordinator will make a ruling.
6. In the even more unlikely event that this ruling is not acceptable, appeal may be made to the Club Captain, or (if the NSL Coordinator and Club Captain are one and the same) the Club Chairman.

 

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