Discussion: Multi-Day Sprint Festivals & Tournaments

Where have Multi-Day Sprint Festivals & Tournaments occurred?

These are the ones I can recall:

Boston
Calgary
Hawkes Bay, NZ
Napa, CA
Ottawa
San Francisco
Seattle
Stockton, CA
Vancouver

Are there any coming in 2023 or beyond?

Considering a Tucson weekend Park-O fest for November of 2023. Maybe.

I saw that Vancouver Sprint Camp is March 24-26, 2023. (It's the same weekend as US Champs, but it's also not in the US).

I'm not committed to directing a SART (Seattle) in 2023, but the club has sort of talked about doing another one. I may map/set/direct it again in 2024, though, since I may finally have enough time to make/update maps again. Historically, SART has always been in September, but we may consider moving it due to the recent trend of severe wildfire smoke in the Seattle metro area during that time period (4 of the last 6 years have seen ~7 days a year of unhealthy/hazardous smoke levels, when there were ~0 over the first 12 years I've been here).

Melbourne Sprint Weekend 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2022 (three days, six venues on every occasion).

Sydney is hosting a four venue event (I say venue because elites have a KO so the number of races depends how good you are) in March 2023.

Sprint the South West in Western Australia, 2014.

Bruce Arthur's run in the Maze.

Thanks for the intel. BAOC with Matej Sebo and terraloco are planning a Memorial Day weekend (last weekend of May) of sprints on new maps in the San Luis Obispo area. We hope to have the event site up with details by mid January.

As well as the semi-regular Sprint The Bay (Hawkes Bay), NZ has had similar one-off 5-6 races in 3 days in Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington & Christchurch that I can recall. Almost always Jan or Feb.

Upcoming is a mostly-sprint weekend based in Christchurch Feb '23 and I think I've seen prior notice of similar in Auckland 2024

Well, for what it's worth, in 2012 the "Vancouver" Sprint camp took place in Victoria, on Vancouver Island. Included a WRE race.

The classic rogaine is 24 hours so does anything under, say, a quarter of that count as a sprint? In 2021 OHV ran a 1hr, 2hr, 3hr, 4hr and a 5hr rogaine over a weekend.

No.

Interestingly I was talking to a non-orienteer yesterday and when I mentioned the sprint orienteering format to him he asked if the distance was 70 or 100 metres.

Oh.

Then we'll have to fall back on our "Sprint Adventure Races", in which you navigate between half a dozen junior schools on a bike, and do a ~1km sprint round each school. May be a bit closer to "sprints"?

Oh No!

Then there is the competitive activity popular among Aussies. That's taking a serious question and seeing who can find the fastest way to frivilous answers. Often it is a series of sprints.

At first I did not see sprint orienteering as a serious form of the sport. Now, as land managers in many places squeeze the life out of forest orienteering, we'll have to look to sprints and other forms of orienteering in urban settings to satisfy our craving for navigation challenges.
Thanks to advice recceived on AP I'm pretty sure my club will be doing at least one two-sprint-in-one-day competition in 23-24.