Summer Evening Events

A series of informal events that take place on spring and summer weekday evenings. The first event is usually at the end of April with one event every week until late August if we get enough volunteers to organise events. The programme includes the annual June Jaunter (see right), but results do not count for league points.
You do not have to enter for the league - just turn up and run (but it helps to give the individual event organisers the notice they ask for so they can prepare enough maps etc). If you're a HOC member you will be credited with league points.
HOC's SEEs are normally arranged for Thursday evenings. And if that's not enough, our neighbour clubs Wrekin Orienteers and Octavian Droobers hold their summer evening events on Tuesdays and Wednesdays respectively.

Final 2012 League Table (updated 25 Aug) after all events. Your best 10 out of the 13 (or 11 out of 14) events will decide your final score.

2012 Programme
All events on Thursdays unless otherwise stated

	Date	Venue	Organiser	Details	Results
1	26 Apr	Haden Hill	Adrian Bailey		Results
2	03 May	Kingsford Country Park	Andy Hemsted		Results
3	10 May	Lickey Hills	Richard Dearden		Results
4	17 May	Barr Beacon	Barry McGowan		Results Comments
5	24 May	Clent Hills	David Williams		Results
6	31 May	Postensplain	Charlie Nelson		Results
7	07 Jun	Pitcheroak Wood	Mike Baggott		Results
8	14 Jun	Arrow Valley	John Leeson		Results
	21 Jun	Clent (June Jaunter)*	Robert Vickers		Results Comments
9	28 Jun	Bumble Hole	Kerstin Mitchell		Results
10	05 July	Worcestershire Beacon	Ant Clerici	CANCELLED
11	12 Jul	Hartlebury	Roger Keeling		Results
12	19 Jul	Morton Stanley Park	John Pearson		Results
13	02 Aug	Hill Top	John Bennison		Results
14	16 Aug	Rough Wood, Walsall	Barry McGowan		Results Comments

*The June Jaunter does not count as part of the league

The SEE coordinator is Charles Nelson

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Rules

Format
A series of informal mid-week evening events held from April/May to July/August each year with nominal entry fees.
Small control markers are used with codes to write down (no punches) in order to reduce both the work of the Organiser/Planner and the risk of vandalism.
They provide an opportunity for members to gain experience in course planning, but any member may volunteer to organise one. No Controller is appointed, but novice planners may seek guidance from club Controllers as necessary.
Possible variations include footpath runs, technical training exercises, Sprint-O, Cycle-O and (new for 2009) Radi-O.
A nearby pub, preferably with facilities for children, may be nominated for post-event course analysis.

Courses
Each event offers three or four courses - Yellow (if requested in advance), Orange, Green(ish) and Blue(ish), depending on available terrain - some is not suitable for courses of Technical Difficulty level 5. Courses may incorporate Norwegian, Line, Map Memory or training sections.
To save effort, the Blue course can be the same as the Green with an extra loop to make up the distance; the Orange can be Yellow with a few extra legs/controls of Technical Difficulty level 3.

Scoring
There will be 4 awards – Mens Trophy, Ladies Trophy, Junior Mens Trophy and Junior Ladies Trophy. For the purposes of the league juniors = M/W18 and below
Runners on each course are divided up by trophy class and then allocated points as follows:

• 1st Place: 10pts or number of counting competitors whichever is the greater
• 2nd Place: 9pts or number of counting competitors minus 1 whichever is the greater
• 3rd Place: 8pts or .........
• Last Place: 1pt
• Retirements and Missing Controls count towards the calculation but get just 1 point for turning up
• The event organiser scores 15 points. If more than one person is involved in organising an event and therefore unable to compete, up to two people can score a full 15 points. However, no person should be credited with Organiser's points more than once in any season
• For anyone running two courses at an event, only the first run scores
• Members of other clubs may compete, but points are awarded only to members of HOC and affiliated groups. Members of other clubs do not count towards the score calculation
• Those with dual club membership must declare HOC as their club on the control card in order to count
• The winner will be determined by the best n - 3 scores over the series where n is the number of events actually held. In the event of a tie the trophy will be awarded to the competitor who has completed more Blue courses in their scoring runs, failing that the competitor who has completed more Green & Blue courses in their scoring runs

The JUNE JAUNTER is not part of the league.

Competitors running out of class:

• Senior Men running Blue – add two points to the score as calculated above. This is mainly to prevent certain people from winning by running Green in every race
• Senior men on the Orange have 4 points deducted down to a minimum of 1 point scored
• Senior Ladies running on the Blue – add four points to the score as calculated above. Senior Ladies on the Green – add two points. Senior Ladies on the orange – no points added
• Junior Men: Blue +4, Green +2, Orange +0
• Junior Ladies: Blue +4, Green +2, Orange +0

The league coordinator will ensure fair play and reserves the right not to award points to competitors who blatantly run a course below their current ability. Special pleading will be allowed but it will not necessarily do you any good.

 

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