Discussion: Translation question

Hi everyone,

there is one type of O training where you do not look at the map except at controls (ideally, maps showing the upcoming leg are fixed at the controls). Does this have a special name in English?

Thanks,

A.

memory-O

We in Ireland normally call it Norwegian. I have no idea why.

Edinburgh is neither in Ireland nor Norwegia.

Have you all tried multiple choice Memory-O? This is where you have say three questions of some kind at each control (trivia or about anything you want). Each potential answer corresponds with a potential next control site. So if you think "A" is the correct answer you go there. It's fun because let's say you get to where you think "A" should be and there is no flag - you have a decision - is there no flag because A was not the correct answer or just because I am lost (not at the correct place). Then what you do depemnds on your skill - did you remember where "B" (and even "C") would be, such that you can go straight there, or do you have to go back to the control to look at the map again.

go back to the control

If you remember the way. Regular Memory O is hard enough. :-)

Thanks, I now have an idea of what to do at our next Christmas novelty event! Admittedly I was going to do something along the lines of multiple choice anyway.

Norwegian.

Thanks everyone for replying.
@upnorthguy: That sounds like fun, but really hard as well.
Actually, I did the lame version this week: I did have the complete map, but found myself without a working lamp. The course was in urban territory, so running in the "dark" was no problem, but reading the map required a streetlight nearby. I thought only looking at the map at the controls would be more fun than trying to navigate with insufficient light, but when I muddled up a leg (and I did so frequently, especially during the first half of the course), I simply took out the map instead of going back to the last control. This happened three times on the fourth leg, taking me 12:30 instead of 2:20 or so.
It was fun, though, and I think I actually learned a thing or two about map reading.

There is a subtle difference between Memory-O and a traditional Norwegian style event.
Upnorthguy's neat variation notwithstanding Memory-O is as described. You see a portion of the map with the next control marked on it. You carry no map. You must remember your way to the next control. It is an exercise.
In Norwegian, as described in the BOF magazine, an issue in 1972, this is/was a legitimate style of competition. The participant carries a map on which he/she has written the start and first control. At the first control the location of the second control is found and copied on to the map, etc.
This had obvious advantages for orienteering events in small areas in the era before electronic punching. Other than the obvious I'm not sure why it was called Norwegian.

Often in a "Norwegian style" event the next TWO control locations are shown on the map segment at each control. This has major advantages if one control should happen to be misplaced or vandalized at some point in the middle of the course. This type event is nice in that it allows people to do it as a complete memory-O, or to use a map without markings on it as a backup way of getting home if things go wrong partway through, or to carry a map and add in the next control locations as you go along if you are still a little less certain of your memory skills.