Willow Glen Holiday Lights
Date: (Sat.) Dec. 15, 2018
Location: San Jose, CA
Event Director: 
- 650.302.4835
Course Setters: Brad Wetmore, Jitka Hiscox, Steve Harrison
Type: C; 60- or 90-minute Light-O (Score-O) course and potluck social
Related Event Information
Event Announcement RouteGadget – Introduction RouteGadget – This Event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=434)
Event Write-Up
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For our 10th Annual Holiday Lights event, we had 10 teams in the 60-minute division, and 38 teams in the 90-minute. (One team took their scorecard home: we would love to get your results included.) This was just about the same overall number of teams, but some of the teams were quite large this year. I often have a couple dozen maps and clue sheets left over, but not this year. I didn't get a chance to count the number of attendees this year (I was kind of busy with Beginner Clinics/Mass Start/Moving Control/Finishes/etc. :) ), but it seemed to be the largest ever. It was wonderful to see so many people, especially young people and families, turn out this year.
Peter Graube had a good crowd again this year to listen to this year's Water Play presentation.
Congratulations to Dennis Wildfogel, the winner of this year's BAOC Service Award. Thanks, Dennis, for all you have done to help the club over the years!!
Lastly, a special "Shout-out" to Pack 43 from Santa Clara and Troop 175 for coming out for a Holiday Hike. Everyone seemed to have a good time, and learned a bit about navigation in the process. I've been talking to the local BSA council about next year: who knows, we may have even more Scouts next year! If someone would like to contact the local Girl Scouts of America or any other Youth Group, it would be great to introduce them to our event/sport, if they're not already aware.
Thanks for making this event possible go to:
- Nancy Lindeman for handling all of the Event Coordination details.
- Jitka Hiscox and Stephen Harrison, my co-course setters, for all their hard work on this event. Jitka and Stephen filled in wherever was needed, especially while I was out with the moving control.
- Steve Haas for handling registration and the presentation of the BAOC Service Award.
- Bob Cooley for printing the maps.
- Chuck Spalding for help with the website.
- Marina Keeting for handling the insurance.
- Stephen Harrison, Anne Kajava, Rob Peters, Matthew Blain, and Archana Potnuru for help with results/finishes.
- Peter Graube for bringing in all the science equipment, and giving the popular Water Play presentation.
- Kathie Wiegant, Rex Winterbottom, Steve Haas, and Vicki Wolworth for help with setup/teardown, and everyone else who pitched in to help.
- The on-duty custodian who made this one of the least anxious events for the event staff. No problems with opening the room on time, having a working key to open the cafeteria tables, etc.
- We all miss long-time course-setter Tony Pinkham who originated the moving control, and continue to wish him well in his new environment. Rumor has it that he's already out scouting new neighborhoods for his local Orienteering club.
- And everyone for coming out and participating in the event.
Results
Willow Glen Holiday Lights
San Jose, CA
Saturday, December 15, 2018
60-Minute Class 90-Minute Class
You can see the event map with the actual routes traveled by participants, and draw your own route for comparison, in RouteGadget for this event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=434). (Use of RouteGadget is explained here.)
- Since this is a Score-O setup with no E-punch, RouteGadget knows only the Start and Finish locations. All the control circles are included directly on the map image.
- You need to enter your name (please also add your Total Points score after your name) and total time in MMMSS format before drawing/uploading your route. For example, 89:52 is entered as 8952.
- When drawing your route, be sure to visit the Finish only after you have completed your route. That is, the blue line pointing to the Finish should follow you throughout your route. You can also upload your GPS track if you have one.
- For the animation, each competitor's speed is averaged out over the whole length of their (manually drawn) route. This works out just fine for Score-O, since competitors often end up taking very different routes.
- To learn to use RouteGadget, view the video here (http://routegadget.net/download.cgi). (Note that the video has no audio!)
The results for the 2018 Willow Glen Holiday Lights Night Score-O event are below. Note that tie scores were broken by elapsed time (i.e., if two entries have the same scores, but different times, the one with less time on the course is placed ahead of the other competitor).
My apologies if I misspelled your name (it was difficult reading some handwriting of names). If I have your name wrong, let us know and we’ll correct your listing in these results.
– , Course Setter and Chief Scorer
60-Minute Class
Control Points Elapsed Time Total
Pl Name(s) Correct/Penalty Time Penalty Points Errors
1 Rex Winterbottom 330 0 59:31 0 330
2 Johanna & Tapio Karras 290 0 60:25 10 280
3 The Peters (Rob, Emily, & Lucy) 230 0 57:55 0 230
4 Matthew Blain 230 0 61:00 10 220
5 Siqing Yi 250 0 64:15 50 200
6 Jay Hann 180 0 58:46 0 180
7 Ken & Nathan Rydeen; Alex, Parker, 140 0 62:00 20 120
& William Weddle; Manav & Ashish
Chotai (Pack 43)
8 Steve Haas 170 60 59:06 0 110 33, 305
9 Alex, Phillip, & George Solomatnikov 110 0 61:45 20 90
10 Nancy Lindeman & Kathie 60 0 52:00 0 60
Steve Harrison & Anne 120 0 64:00 40 80 (unofficial, course setter)
90-Minute Class
Control Points Elapsed Time Total
Pl Name(s) Correct/Penalty Time Penalty Points Errors
1 Marcy Beard & Kipley Fiebig 540 0 89:05 0 540
2 Jason Reed 550 0 90:30 10 540
3 Wilkinson Family 520 0 89:53 0 520
4 Daniel Å ebo 480 0 89:53 0 480
5 Jason Lee 470 0 85:04 0 470
6 Graham Brew 470 0 89:45 0 470
7 Eric Rosenzweig 450 0 90:40 10 440
8 A* (Ellen Smith & Matej Å ebo) 410 0 86:03 0 410
9 Katiy & Kylie Pytur, Tim & Jun Crick 390 0 89:30 0 390
10 Erika Reed 390 0 89:44 0 390
11 Quincy Rosenzweig 410 0 92:26 30 380
12 Toothy Cows 370 0 89:30 0 370
13 Ally Kraus, Patrick Lundquist 350 0 89:29 0 350
14 Janet and Mark Petersen 340 0 90:00 0 340
15 Vicki Woolworth 330 0 92:59 30 300
16 Team Lit (Joanne, Ada, Blake Johnson) 290 0 81:03 0 290
17 Irena Stefanova 290 0 85:46 0 290
18 Gavin Wyatt-Mair 290 0 89:29 0 290
19 Lubo S & Glen M 280 0 89:53 0 280
20 Netta Maeghan 270 0 89:30 0 270
21 Zander Rosenzweig 250 0 89:24 0 250
22 Kelleher 230 0 89:30 0 230
23 Van Berkel Family 220 0 88:24 0 220
24 Digby & Audrey Curtis 220 0 89:53 0 220
25 Jeff Lanam 230 0 90:50 10 220
26 Rachelle, Ethan, Amelia, & Ezekel 200 0 85:49 0 200
Romander
27 Theis & Chalaknia (Pack 43) 200 0 89:53 0 200
28 Diane Appel 190 0 86:41 0 190
29 N. Corsano & E. Heller 180 0 80:17 0 180
30 Troop 175 180 0 88:04 0 180
31 Srinivasa Charanti 190 0 90:49 10 180
32 Ning Xu 170 0 83:29 0 170
33 Staats 150 0 73:23 0 150
34 Michele Conway 150 0 86:40 0 150
35 Monika S., Sandi H., & May M. 140 0 86:23 0 140
36 The A's 140 0 87:00 0 140
37 Carl & Aleene Reisinger 110 0 72:45 0 110
38 Evann Tu & Ian Liang (Pack 43) 170 0 103:39 140 30