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| # Posted 2008-03-09 11:59:45 | |
| bbrooke: | Does his compliment make up for the fact that neither of us remembered to pay you for our maps?!? We realized that later... We'll catch up with you next time, hopefully at Devil's Thumb.
We both had a great time today. Thanks for setting up the training event! |
| # Posted 2008-03-09 15:51:14 | |
| Torino: | Looks very nice, indeed! A great idea to use the butterfly concept in this park. And yes, I was wondering whether there was snow or ice on the ground, as it often is beginning of March. Glad it was such a good training and so many people took part in it. Good for you, Christoph! And greetings from a sunny afternoon in CH :-)). |
| # Posted 2008-03-10 21:23:26 | |
| Ratlaf: | Thanks! ...and you're welcome too!
Greetings to you too. It's interesting that I feel the need to host these trainings in the spring time. Maybe getting myself back into the Orienteering rhythm...? The butterfly is really the only way to get a course of any lengthin this area without using a map exchange. Thanks to e-punhcing we're now able to design crazy courses like this. Without e-punching I believe we'd never even have seen courses like this due to the need to reduce the cheating potential. We don't have it yet but that's not going to stop me from designing courses as if we do... For training events anyway. |
| # Posted 2008-03-10 22:02:12 | |
| jjcote: | So who do you think is going to cheat? And you don't need a map exchange per se, just use two maps back to back, with two loops around the park or whatever, if that's needed to keep the course from being too confusing looking. It's always been possible to do crazy courses, nobody is going to take controls out of order without saying that they did.
Another approach is As-You-Go-O, where the controls are all numbered, but you don't know which order to take them in. At each control, there's a note saying which control is next. Unless you do them in order, there's no way to know which goes in which spot on the punchcard. |
| # Posted 2008-03-10 22:59:56 | |
| Ratlaf: | Kewl! I like that as-you-go-o. There's no pre-planning though but otherwise for a small area like this that sounds great. |
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