Discussion: Anything else needed for 2011 CCOF?

This is not a call to decide, but to ask if you need any more information to decide to attend any or all of the events that are part of the 2011 Canal Cities Orienteering Festival (CCOF)...

We've tried to put lots of stuff on the web site and have a single streamlined registration process for the entire 9 day event. At the core, it is the US Classic Champs, the O-USA Convention and AGM, the Trail-O Champs and an SML A-meet.

Value-wise, we've tried to include as many different types of orienteering: Classic, Night, Mountain Bike, Canoe, Trail, and SML formats.

Training-wise, we've got sessions planned for mappers, organizers, trainers, competitors, and youth. The convention director would love to hear from you if you have a concept on using a 1/2 day in a class-room style setting to help people run better clubs, events, or anything related to O in the US.

And finally cost-wise, we threw in the "Whole Darned Thing" as an incentive to just check every box and not worry about missing any one event or section - your cost will be just about the same. I do apologize that the Trail-O champs is not included in this large bundle, but the group's consensus was that a fair portion of the attendees would not be interested in paying the additional amount for this event. On the other side, the Trail-O event is rather inexpensive on its own.

If you can, we'd love for you to indicate your intentions on the events here. (even if you plan to register closer to the deadlines;-)

We have 4 entries:

Jul 30: 2011 Individual Classic Championships
Jul 30: Canal Cities Orienteering Festival
Jul 31: 2011 OUSA Convention
Aug 6: Canal Cities Challenge

The Classics, Convention, and Challenge entries are just for those portions, and the Jul 30 CCOF is the festival as a whole.

We've got a good response to them so far, and we're excited about the festival.

And so - is there anything that you don't know that would help you decide?

At a quick glance, I don't see any information at all on junior camp and junior activities. I have several local juniors that I want to give a first class experience this summer... Other than being much shorter and cheaper travel, why should I bring them to Canal Cities instead of Whitehorse, COC's and Sass Peepre camp?

Thanks Mike - I have a request out to get more information on that aspect.

Map snippets?

Dan,

Great idea, and I'll do what I can on this.

The map for Happy Valley Wildlife Management Area will be completely new from something that has only been used as a rogaine area a number of years ago. It will not be available ahead of time.

We have good coverage of the Convention area, and should be able to pull something out for most of that.

The Trial-O will be on a new map, and I'm hesitant to send something out that could potentially hurt someone, but perhaps I can get a piece out from an area that will definitely not be in the mix;-)

And I'll see what I can get from the final A meet to tease people with as well.

@Mike

I haven't had a chance to talk details with Jeff Saeger yet, but the general plan is to give the juniors the choice of attending any of the workshops in the AM, or stay with the junior group (will include discussions/reviews of previous day's training and introduction to that day's training). The PM will include the juniors doing the sprint course that is available, followed by a different exercise each day (contours-only 1 day, some combination of a regular course, line-o, corridor-o, window-o, etc. on the other days) - on the same maps being used for training, as listed on the web site.

Why CCOF? I think it will be great fun for the kids. The week's schedule is very full with both orienteering and social activities. We have reserved a shelter at Webster Park that the juniors will be able to use for games, etc. during downtime, and they will all be able to camp in tents around the shelter.