Public Event at Scout-O Championships
Briones Regional Park
Date: (Sun.) Oct. 13, 2019
Location: Lafayette, CA
Event Director: 
- 925.934.6567
Course Setters: Gavin Wyatt-Mair, Steve Harrison
Type: B; Open Event for non-Scouts — Regular 7-course BAOC event in conjunction with the Scout-O Championships
Related Event Information
Event Announcement Splits on Attackpoint (http://www.attackpoint.org/eventdetail.jsp/event_46607) RouteGadget – Introduction RouteGadget – This Event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=458)
Event Write-Up and Mystery
By
We enjoyed another fun Scout Orienteering Championships and B-meet at Briones on Sunday, October 13th. This was the 27th Scout-O and, for the second time that we know of, the event has spanned two generations: a scout who participated this year was accompanied by her mom who participated as a scout years ago.
We had 50% more troops this year versus last year! Overall attendance was similar to last year, with over 300 people at the meet altogether.
Congratulations to all the Scout Champions—results for the Scout courses are here. Our overall 2019 Scout-O Champion is Ryan Thompson – Troop 104, El Cerrito.
Congratulations to the winning Troops:
- Girl Scouts: Troop 30825, Danville
- Boy Scouts: Troop 24, Berkeley
- Junior Scouts: Pack 43, Santa Clara
The results for the B-meet are below.
Thank you to our volunteers, who worked to make the meet run smoothly. A table of volunteers and their activities is below. I am sure that some have been omitted—people are great, and they just pitch in and help all the time, so please let me know the names of those I missed.
The Mystery
We started setting control bags with E-punches a few days before the meet. By Friday, we had set almost all the controls—there were still 10 to set, and the water. On Saturday morning, we drove up the hill with the Rangers to set the water. While driving up high, we noticed that control 84, which was at the north end of a pond, and should be seen from the truck, was missing. We assumed that cows had messed with it, and decided to fix it after setting the water.
When we arrived at the water stop, we noticed that control 46, which should have been visible, was missing. Hmmmm. Went over to look around, thinking “pesky cowsâ€. But it wasn’t there, although the streamer was there. Searched around a bit, and Hah! There it was, standing neatly against a tree deeper in the copse.
Well, cows don’t prop controls up against trees. So we decided that some person must have moved it. Asked the Rangers, but they were innocent. Perhaps a horse person? A nearby landowner? Oh well, no big deal, we just put it back, and carried on with the water deployment.
Uh-oh, spotted a control propped up on the fence east of the water. Went over to it, and it was number 55—wow, 500 meters from where it had been placed! Started getting worried.
Went over to 35. Missing completely. Now really worried. So we split up—the Rangers and Jay would finish placing the water, and I would check more controls. Steve was out placing other controls.
While replacing 55, I found 35, so I replaced it as well. Checked 36, 37, 79, 67, 78, 47, 52, 59—all okay. Went back to the water point and headed north. Placed 34 and checked 58, 45, 85. All okay.
Went to the pond where 84 should have been. Could not find it. Plenty of cows around—maybe they stomped it into the pond? Fished around in the pond a bit, but couldn’t see anything in the murk. Decided that most likely the person who moved 35, 55, and 46 was responsible, so I looked around the area and didn’t see it. Replaced it with number 90, and marked 90 as 84 since the maps were already printed.
By now it was late, so I checked 96, 41, 97 (all okay), and placed the last two controls—33 and 44. On the way back to the car, I checked 32, 31, 57, 83, 87, 51, 54, Start, 93, 94, 40, 39, 38. All okay.
At this point, the conclusion was that a person had moved the visible controls at the top of the hill. Only 84 was missing, and it had been replaced. All the others were okay, so we were good to go.
Wrong! During the competition on Sunday, a Scout Leader called Nina to inform her that 53 was missing. She texted me, and Steve Harrison dashed out there to check. Yup, it was missing, so he replaced it. Steve started back to the arena, going north, and HEY! What’s that near the ruin 200 m north of 53? Wow, it’s 53!!! So he placed it back where it belonged. Sadly, a number of teams on Course 3 had already been messed up by the missing control. What a pity!
At the end of the meet, Greg, Vicki, Deron, and Fyodor went out to retrieve controls. They arrived back and reported nothing extraordinary. Then we checked our controls inventory, and guess what? 84 was back!!! Fyodor figured he picked it up where 96 is located. So we checked. 96 was now missing! Good grief! Well, it was 6 PM and getting dark, so we packed it in knowing that we had lost one control (96), and that someone had been messing with us.
Monday afternoon I went to look for 96. Found it! So there are no controls missing, and besides the teams on Course 3 being messed up (which we will try to correct in the results), all’s well that ends well.
So what do you think? Was BigFoot unhappy with us—maybe he doesn’t like orange-and-white bags with electronics? Do controls relocate themselves? Were we suffering from delusions of placement?
Perhaps there are a bunch of lessons to learn from all this. I am actually seriously concerned for next year’s big California Orienteering Festival (http://www.cal-o-fest.com), and would welcome suggestions for how to mitigate this kind of issue.
Cheers,
Gavin
Results
Public Event at Scout-O Championships
Briones Regional Park
Lafayette, CA
Sunday, October 13, 2019
White Course Yellow Course Orange Course Brown Course Long Brown Course Green Course Red Course Blue Course
Also see control-by-control timing in the splits on Attackpoint (http://www.attackpoint.org/eventdetail.jsp/event_46607).
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=458). (Use of RouteGadget is explained here.)
White Course (3.4 km, 150 m climb, 10 controls)
Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Erika Reed BAOC 39:57 0:35
2 Alexander Schafer Berkeley High 1:02:04 22:07 9:24
3 Jenny Zheng BAOC 1:26:42 46:45 16:59
4 Widerstrom family BAOC 1:54:55 74:58 27:05
Yellow Course (3.4 km, 160 m climb, 11 controls)
Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Travis Navarro CHS NJROTC 32:40 2:59
2 Zach Remer CHS NJROTC 49:36 16:56 7:40
3 James Hodson None 51:51 19:11 5:15
4 Unknown Runner BAOC 56:25 23:45 6:45 (Started at 10:35:46)
5 Emily & Ida Tornqvist BAOC 57:17 24:37 5:45
6 Tatiana Fedyk None 58:24 25:44 6:54
7 Vikram Chahal CHS NJROTC 1:15:39 42:59 15:24
8 Prashant None 1:17:24 44:44 19:05
9 Philip Solomatinko BAOC 1:24:01 51:21 8:43
10 George Solomatniko BAOC 1:24:11 51:31 9:05
11 Jeffrey Kabel BAOC 1:33:38 60:58 8:55 (2nd Course)
12 The Mamas None 1:42:31 69:51 9:34
13 Shura & Leta Krechetov BAOC 1:42:33 69:53 21:11
14 Team MJJB BAOC 2:03:43 91:03 14:58
Catharine Yezek CHS NJROTC DNF
Terry Gleason BAOC DNF
Orange Course (4.0 km, 270 m climb, 13 controls)
Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Jason Reed BAOC 52:02 4:37
2 Erika Reed BAOC 1:14:46 22:44 6:04 (2nd Course)
3 Anthony Meyer CHS NJROTC 1:23:26 31:24 10:18
4 Zander & Eric Rosenzweig BAOC 1:39:08 47:06 10:42
5 Seth & Ryan BAOC 1:46:12 54:10 7:13
6 Unknown Runner None 1:50:18 58:16 20:49
7 Ada Krechetov BAOC 1:51:32 59:30 14:14
8 Red Bear None 2:48:02 116:00 22:26
Darren Blum BAOC MSP
Brown Course (3.7 km, 200 m climb, 13 controls)
Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Tobias Tornqvist BAOC 51:42 2:52
2 Chuck Spalding BAOC 52:29 0:47 1:54
3 Linus Tornqvist BAOC 56:12 4:30 2:46
4 Gary Kraght BAOC 1:09:48 18:06 5:19
5 Irena & Nick BAOC 1:27:25 35:43 7:52
6 George Minarik BAOC 1:28:38 36:56 13:51
7 Joe Geddes BAOC 1:47:32 55:50 33:56
8 Tharu & Rishi BAOC 2:15:07 83:25 18:07
9 Leslie Minarik BAOC 2:17:01 85:19 44:04
10 Diyang Tang BAOC 2:27:04 95:22 42:25
11 Erin Majers BAOC 2:33:00 101:18 62:28
Jeff Lanam BAOC DNF
Sarah Williams BAOC DSQ
Long Brown Course (4.5 km, 305 m climb, 11 controls)
Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Gary Carpenter BAOC 1:18:52 3:05
2 Steve Haas BAOC 1:22:21 3:29 3:30
3 Bryar Fancher CHS NJROTC 1:40:21 21:29 5:59
4 Evan Custer BAOC 1:43:51 24:59 4:44
5 John Richardson BAOC 1:45:00 26:08 12:32
6 Janet Petersen BAOC 1:52:58 34:06 4:46
7 Chris Delp BAOC 1:55:34 36:42 13:19
8 Olga Kraght BAOC 1:59:54 41:02 11:28
9 Trinity Harvey CHS NJROTC 2:00:14 41:22 19:09
10 Johanna Merriss BAOC 2:00:16 41:24 27:06
11 Ashwin & Alex None 2:12:14 53:22 28:00
12 Trevor Pering BAOC 2:18:28 59:36 16:09
13 Stan Barrett, Liz Williams BAOC 2:20:18 61:26 15:25
14 Jason & Danny None 2:50:17 91:25 24:04
15 Judy & Tom Cronin BAOC 3:05:06 106:14 25:25
Anika Soulier CHS NJROTC DNF
Green Course (5.4 km, 305 m climb, 21 controls)
Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Tapio Karras BAOC 1:04:40 2:43
2 Jeffrey Kabel BAOC 1:08:15 3:35 5:47
3 Steve Gregg BAOC 1:08:33 3:53 2:59
4 Derek Maclean BAOC 1:12:16 7:36 5:14
5 Michael O'Kelly BAOC 1:26:35 21:55 10:04
6 Hayden Hold CHS NJROTC 1:38:20 33:40 13:22
7 Vin Noah BAOC 1:41:33 36:53 19:00
8 Vicki Woolworth NAVX 1:41:51 37:11 7:09
9 Scott Sampson BAOC 1:56:20 51:40 22:59
10 Reka & Matt BAOC 2:06:52 62:12 17:40
11 Russell Green BAOC 2:07:32 62:52 20:16
12 Daniel Ingram CHS NJROTC 2:21:21 76:41 34:14
Nathaniel Ingram CHS NJROTC DNF
Red Course (6.5 km, 390 m climb, 24 controls)
Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Riley Dunn CHS NJROTC 1:13:11 1:41
2 Nikolay Chukanov BAOC 1:15:30 2:19 1:35
3 Deron van Hoff BAOC 1:29:34 16:23 6:15
4 Mark Petersen BAOC 1:30:28 17:17 4:23
5 Takashi Sugiyama BAOC 1:30:35 17:24 5:48
6 Fyodor Konkov BAOC 1:37:56 24:45 5:09
7 Jared Deselms CHS NJROTC 1:41:43 28:32 15:47
8 Penny DeMoss BAOC 1:43:52 30:41 4:41
9 Garrett Nussbaumer Tulock NJROTC 1:48:08 34:57 10:49
10 Kyle Navarro CHS NJROTC 1:57:08 43:57 11:17
11 Theo Verhoeven BAOC 1:57:27 44:16 11:06
12 Damian Swift BAOC 1:58:12 45:01 9:41
Blue Course (7.6 km, 430 m climb, 26 controls)
Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Anthony Riley DVOA 1:05:53 1:42
2 Wyatt Riley DVOA 1:12:02 6:09 0:00
3 Daniel Å ebo BAOC 1:22:31 16:38 6:02
4 Rex Winterbottom BAOC 1:37:09 31:16 7:16
5 Matej Å ebo BAOC 1:44:27 38:34 12:06
6 Eduard Nasybulin BAOC 1:45:29 39:36 17:59
7 John Crowther RMOC 1:57:15 51:22 8:59
8 Greg Favor BAOC 2:04:30 58:37 12:02
9 Peter Hsia BAOC 2:10:33 64:40 19:26
Joe Maffei BAOC DNF
Jeff Goodwin, Chris Laster BAOC DSQ
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DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)
DSQ = Disqualified (violated a rule)
MSP = Mispunched (one or more controls wrong)