Plan Ahead for the NEOC Fall Series 2024!
This series provides a bit of light-hearted competition and encourages orienteers to attend local events. Scores are tallied by course (white, yellow, orange, brown, green, and red). Participants need to run the same color course for at least 3 of the 4 events listed below. No special registration required. Mark your calendars now!
The point series competition is open to all participants running as individuals (including younger children on white with "shadows").
Scores will be tallied by course (white, yellow, orange, brown, green, and red). Participants need to run the same color course for at least 3 of the 4 events.
If a participant has more than 3 eligible scores, their best 3 will be counted.
"Cross Country" scoring system: 1 point for first place on the course, 2 points for second place, 3 points for third, and so forth. Lowest score wins. Thus, a perfect score for the series would be 3 (first place in three events).
For those very enthusiastic participants who often run multiple courses at the same event: even if you have 3 scores in more than one color category, you will only receive an official final point score in one color category, for your "usual" course. The points coordinator will assume the harder course is your usual course, unless I receive a very convincing email from you explaining otherwise!
Awards will be presented at the Powisett/Rocky Woods event on November 17th. Prizes to the top two scorers for each color course (no age- or gender-based categories), plus some special bonus awards!
Note that you do not need to register for the point series. Just come to the events and participate, and you will be included. However, it will be very helpful to the point series coordinator if you use the same version of your name at all events. Remember, you do need to run the same color course at three different events to get a final score. Mark your calendars now, and we'll see you in the woods this fall!
Fall Point Series Coordinator: Kristin Hall
Congratulations to the NEOC members who accumulated the most "points" in their class.
If you were not at the Winter Party to receive your medallion of recognition, ask at the results table at a 2020 meet.
Thanks to Mark O'Connell & Peter Frykman for applying their skills to this annual task.
Congratulations to the NEOC members who accumulated the most "points" in their class. Your medallion of recognition will be given to you at a 2019 meet.
Thanks to Peter Frykman for wrangling the knotty course/place/gender/age data.
Despite the slow start due to a long winter last year proved to be an active and exciting year for orienteering. The Point Series recognizes those club members that run in races at the recreational meets the club offers during the year. Its main purpose is to encourage members to go orienteering locally as much as possible and subsequently to improve their abilities. It should be noted that only solo efforts are eligible for points and consequently group efforts do not score any points.
There were more than 850 individual courses run, with 145 NEOC members scoring points during the 2015 season. Sixteen of the participants in the point series scored points in the maximum of 10 races. There were ample opportunities to score points from the first race of the season, the Pine Bluffs ski-O on 31 JAN and ending with the 23rd meet of the season, the Blue Hills meet on 22 NOV. The average number of scoreable races run by point series participants was 4.48. This year there were several classes that did not have anyone running in them(!).
Let’s do a quick recap of the classes and the class winners.
The NEOC 2013 Point series is completed and here are the results.
The NEOC Point Series is designed to reward the NEOC members that race in NEOC local meets. The data was collected from the NEOC website results section. You could have run in as many races as you like, even more than one in each meet. But only your best race of each meet was counted and only your top 12 of those efforts were totaled to determine your year-end ranking. See this article for an in-depth explanation of the method for calculating the point totals.
There were 212 NEOC members (60 female and 152 male) that ran in eligible races. For a race to be eligible (i.e. the points will count toward your point total for the year) you must have run as a solo effort. This means that groups of any sort don’t count. The total number of eligible races run was 1017.
The Female class with the greatest number of runners was F Brown with 26 runners. The largest Male class was M Green with 47 runners. It should be noted that the NEOC Point Series classes are not the same as the OUSA age and gender classes. For the Point Series we offer 7 female classes and 8 male classes unlike the 19 female and 19 male classes that you find at OUSA A meets.
Congratulations to the winners of the NEOC 2013 Point Series. And congratulations to everyone that orienteered and racked up points.