BAOC COOL

Bay Area Orienteering Club California Outdoor Orienteering League


2014 Season

There will be a limited season this year, consisting of only these events:

There will be limited awards, but a couple of special awards for the top Varsity boy and top Varsity girl. Each will receive two tickets to Lorde at the Fox Theater in Oakland on March 27, 2014! A high school aged performer for a high school competition.

The following competition classes will be available:

Elementary – White course
Middle School – Yellow course
High School JV – Orange course
High School Varsity Girls – Brown course
High School Varsity Boys – Green course

"Running up" is allowed, as well as "running down". For running down, you get half the points for each level down. For example, a 9th grader JV runs White and wins for 100 points. However, since the 9th grader is running two levels down, points awarded are 100 * (1/2) * (1/2) = 25 points.

There is no bonus for "running up". However, there are at least three reasons to do that:

  1.  A middle-school student may compete on Varsity in order to try for the Lorde tickets.
  2.  A student practicing for international competition may run Red or Blue for better practice.
  3.  A middle school student may run Orange all season to be in better competitive shape for running Yellow at the Interscholastic (IS) Championships.

If there are two (or more) people in a class who get 100 points because one (or more) runs up, the fastest pace (fewest minutes per kilometer) wins the tie. Here's an example of how that can happen:

  1. A Varsity Boy runs Green (his normal course), and is the fastest student on Green, getting 100 points.
  2. Another Varsity Boy runs Red (running up), and is the fastest student on Red, also getting 100 points.
  3. Both have 100 points—the one with the faster pace wins the event.

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Results of COOL #1

Results of COOL #2