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OMM 2006 Results

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Important note for B & C classes: Unfortunately the marshalls at the event centre on day 1 asked you to punch a start control S1 BEFORE you got onto your bus. This should not have happened. It was intended that you punch the start control only AFTER you got off the bus.

The tags only register the first time they see a control, so when you punched S1 again as you got off the bus this second control was not recorded, since the tags already had the previous S1 control registered. Consequently we cannot tell what time you got off the bus so don't know what time you actually started. It was hoped that since we knew what time each bus arrived, and knew who should have been on which bus, we would be able to work out your start time from that. However, because some competitors ignored the marshalling directions and parked their cars in the restricted areas at the entrance to the event centre, the buses were delayed because they could either not get in at all, or not turn around once they'd arrived. This caused the whole bus timetable to be seriously delayed. To avoid having people waiting so long out in the rain it was decided to pack the buses as quickly as possible when they did arrive, and it seems that way too many teams got on the wrong buses. Thus it was impossible to work out who arrived at the start at what time.

The controller therefore made a decision to start timing the courses from your time at the first control, so the time from S1 to DB (for the C class) and from S1 to DD (for the B class) has been ignored and treated as a 'road crossing timeout'.

Note for E,A,L,M,S classes: We have two ways to do the start times, we can use your programmed start time, or we can use a punched start time. One day 1, because of the parking difficulties with all the mud and the distance to the start there was a high probability of many teams turning up late, so the controller decided to go with punched starts for all. The decision was also made to punch at the Start-2 point so that marshalls could have time to check that all teams punched ok and to note any that weren't. This means that all run times are measured from the start-2 point, not the actual start, but the 2 minutes extra applies to everyone so it really doesn't matter. For score classes, the allowed time out was extended by 3 minutes so allow for the time difference so that penalties were not incurred.
For those armchair orienteers who have enquired as to why results were not immediately available online during the competition as usual, the camp sites and the event centre were in forests in remote areas of Scotland, with very limited phone availability - most of the time the signals drifted between no-signal and just one bar. At the C and S camp there was no signal at all apart from one spot around 800m away from where were working, at the other camp results were uploaded at 18:55 after trying 4 or 5 times for each file. All results were uploaded again at 01:15 on Sunday morning - this took over 90 minutes at a connection speed which dropped below 500 bits per second for much of the time...not exactly broadband! Sadly it simply isn't cost effective to install satellite uplinks for just a few hours use.
POSITIONS AFTER DAY 1
Elite Class A Class B Class C Long Score Medium Score Short Score
FINAL RESULTS
Elite Class A Class B Class C Long Score Medium Score Short Score
HANDICAP RESULTS
Elite Class A Class B Class C Long Score Medium Score Short Score
RESULTS FILES TO DOWNLOAD FOR ANALYSIS BY O_WELL
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24th October 2006: version 1.7 is the current version - you will need to download this new version to be able to read this year's files. Earlier versions won't work this year - please click the above link to download.

The following data files should be saved into the directory containing the O_WELL program. If you click on these links, some browsers may display the data in the file instead of asking where you want to save it - if this happens, wait for the file to finish downloading, then click on FILE, SAVE AS then save it in the O_WELL directory.
Alternatively, if you rightclick on a link, you should be offered the opportunity to save the file directly.

Note that in the score classes the graphs can't show any controls which were manually entered as it isn't possible for us to know where to insert them in each chosen route.
Note: if you downloaded these prior to 19:00 on Monday 30th October, please re-download them. The grid references in the orginal files were incorrect.
Elite Class A Class B Class C Long Score Medium Score Short Score
QUERIES
If you have any query about your result which requires the controller to make adjustments to your times or scores please contact Jen Longbottom. Send query to Jen Longbottom.
If you have a technical query about the results which does not require a controller's decision please contact Joe Lee. Send query to Joe Lee.

Class A - Handicap

Last updated: 19:22:17 Sunday 5 November 2006
Key: a = allowed by controllerm = missingw = wrong not on this course (ignored)
posteamcategorycompetitorsday 1day 2totalh/capagemin/hr
1246VetAndy Lewsley & John Noblett07:31:2505:08:3412:39:5912:02:00953
2231VetDuncan Woods & Gary Hetherington07:36:0905:22:0912:58:1812:45:20901
3233VetGeoff Pettengell & Bryan Carr07:46:4805:21:3613:08:2412:55:16911
4150VetKen Jones & Terry Norton08:34:1505:58:2914:32:4413:34:34974
5223VetKeith Tonkin & Alastair Doyle08:30:2006:21:0914:51:2913:37:12985
6128VetMike Palmer & Ben Grant09:16:5807:24:2316:41:2114:11:091069
7126VetRichard Clarke & Andrew Laing10:24:3607:09:3717:34:1314:38:3110810
8137VetAndrew Anastasi & Dominic Naylor09:01:1106:49:2915:50:4015:34:50901
9171VetMark Bezzant & Mike Read09:51:0906:29:1816:20:2716:04:07901
10149VetKevin Ellis & Andrew Ritchings11:09:2107:08:3018:17:5117:41:16922
11143VetStuart Hufton & Martin Lugg11:06:0707:24:1118:30:1818:11:48901