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2009 Sierra Avalanche Ski-Orienteering Championships

Five Days, Five Venues in the Lake Tahoe Area

Date: Jan. 25 - Feb. 1, 2009
Location: Lake Tahoe Area
Event Director: - 650.793.8764
Course Setters: Brenda Giese, Bob Baylor, Chuck Lyda, Matthias Kohler
Type: Ski-O; 5 Ski-O events in 8 days in the Lake Tahoe area -- Register by JANUARY 16 for discounts

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Championship Results

The semi-final results for the 2009 Sierra Avalanche Ski-Orienteering Championships are below for participants to review. If you see anything to change (such as a calculation, or the application of a volunteer or absence credit), let know. I tried to apply the credits where they best helped each participant in the scoring.

Scoring is performance based and calculated as follows:

  1. The scoring for a Score-O event (day 1) is calculated as your control points divided by the winner's control points, with the last point being a ratio of the winner's time divided by your time (i.e., tie breaker based on time). The total is multiplied by 100. The winner of each class gets 100 points and everyone else gets a percentage of 100.
  2. The scoring for point-to-point events (days 2 through 5) is calculated as the winner's time divided by your time, times 100. The winner of each class gets 100 points and everyone else gets a percentage of 100.
  3. You are allowed up to five scores. If you do not compete all five days, you are also allowed up to one absence or volunteer credit for each day that you compete (you cannot have more credit scores than competitive scores). A volunteer credit is given for a day that you work at the event without competing, and it is equal to your highest competition score for the first volunteered day and your second highest score for your second volunteered day. An absence credit is given for a day that you do not attend the event as a competitor or volunteer, and is equal to an average of your competition and volunteer scores times 90 percent. It pays to attend!
  4. Where ties exist in the final score, we first try to break them by awarding 0.01 points to the better skier for the last common event (or 0.02 and 0.01 for the better skiers in a three-way tie). If the tied scores are for events not skied in common, we add the trivial difference for the better performance at the later event (often this is for two or three skiers who get 100 points on separate days without competing against one another). It pays to ski the last event if you tie someone!
  5. Awards are given only to people who complete at least one course for their class. Medals are given for fully competitive gender/age classes, and ribbons are given for open classes.

Here are the results:

                                                                       Vol.   Absence  Grand
  Pl  Name                 Club   Day 1  Day 2  Day 3  Day 4  Day 5   Credit  Credit   Total

F-Open  (White course)

   1  Nina Seeman                   A      -      -   100.01    -        -     90.00  190.01 **
   2  Galena Shahnovsky    BAOC  100.00    A      -      -      -        -     90.00  190.00 **
   3  Emily Hann           BAOC     -      -      A    60.82    -        -     54.74  115.56


M-Open  (White course)

   1  Milo Manett-Tomlinson         -      -      -   100.00    A        -     90.00  190.00


F55+    (Orange course)

   1  Anndy Wiselogle      CROC  100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00      -       -    500.00
   2  Rosemary Johnson     BAOC   77.78  93.56  87.80  70.79  98.81      -       -    428.74
   3  Jennifer Kerr        GCO      A    92.19  84.94  51.01  88.34      -     71.21  387.68 *
   4  Helene Gordon        BAOC     -    80.95  80.68    A      A        -    145.47  307.09 *


F65+    (Orange course)

   1  Dayle Lavine         ROC   100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00      -       -    500.00
   2  Nancy Lindeman       BAOC   25.00  49.68  37.15  38.35  43.75      -       -    193.93


F-Open  (Orange course)

   1  Jennifer Heckendorn        100.00    A    88.08 100.00 100.00      -     87.32  475.40
   2  Sherry Timmerman    ARCTIC  90.16 100.00 100.00 100.00    A        -     74.81  407.27
   3  Katie Fox                     A   100.00    -      -      -        -     90.00  190.00
   4  Megan McCandless              -      -      -      A    70.90      -     63.81  134.72 *
   5  Sharon Evans         BAOC     -      -    58.02    A      -        -     52.22  110.24


M-Open  (Orange course)

   1  Alan Houser          BAOC     V    59.79  69.02  76.25    A      70.33   63.30  344.61 *
   2  Dan Greene           BAOC     A   100.00 100.00    -    25.00      -     67.50  292.50
   3  Jim Fish             BAOC   65.45  63.94  70.22    -    25.00      -       -    224.61
   4  JR Heberle                    -      -      -      A   100.02      -     90.00  190.02 **
   5  David Best                    -      -      -   100.01    A        -     90.00  190.01 **
   6  Oleg Shaknovsky      BAOC  100.00    A      -      -      -        -     90.00  190.00 **
   7  Benjamin Legg        BAOC     -      A      -      -    25.00      -     22.50   47.50


F40+    (Green course)

   1  Carol Schick-Lyda    BAOC  100.00    V      V   100.00 100.00   200.00     -    500.00
   2  Karen Sessler              100.00    A      -      -      -        -     90.00  190.00
   3  Brenda Giese                  -    74.96 100.00    -      -        -       -    174.96


F-Open  (Green course)

   1  Trinka Gillis        BAOC  100.00    A      A   100.00 100.00      -    180.00  480.00
   2  Marie-Josee Parayre  BAOC     -      A      A    90.48  88.71      -    161.27  340.46


M-16    (Green course)

   1  Sam Zabell                 100.00    A      A   100.00    -        -    180.00  380.00


M55+    (Green course)

   1  Max Suter            TOC   100.00  94.91 100.00 100.00 100.00      -       -    494.91
   2  John Campbell                 A   100.00    -      -      -        -     90.00  190.00


M65+    (Green course)

   1  Bob Cooley           BAOC     A   100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00      -     90.00  490.00
   2  Clark Maxfield       CAOC     A    96.13  83.90  71.32  81.96      -     75.00  408.32 *
   3  Jim Fish             BAOC     -      -    48.26    -      -        -       -     48.26


M-Open  (Green course)

   1  Matthias Kohler      BAOC     -      -      -      V   100.00   100.00     -    200.00
   2  Francois Leonard     BAOC     -      A      -   100.00    -        -     90.00  190.00
   3  Dan Greene           BAOC     A      -      -    59.48    -        -     53.53  113.01


F-21+   (Red course)

   1  Sharon Crawford      RMOC   95.24 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00      -       -    495.24
   2  Julie Raymond        BAOC  100.00    A      -      -      -        -     90.00  190.00
   3  Katie Fox                     -      -      -    66.93    A        -     60.24  127.17


M40+    (Red course)

   1  Mike Poulsen         CROC  100.00  95.82  85.74  78.20  87.95      -       -    447.72 *
   2  Kent Ohlund          BAOC     -      A      A   100.00 100.00      -    180.00  380.00
   3  Bob Baylor           BAOC   81.25    V      A    97.87  25.00    97.87   67.95  369.94
   4  Douglas Berling      RMOC   73.75  80.89  69.02  71.85  62.20      -       -    357.72 *
   5  Scott Drumm          CROC   56.25  80.89  56.88  71.84  63.26      -       -    329.12
   6  Pete Olsen           BAOC   43.75 100.00  25.00  79.81  61.10      -       -    309.65 *
   7  Matthias Kohler      BAOC     -      A   100.00    -      -        -     90.00  190.00
   8  Johnathan Owens               -      -      -    98.40    A        -     88.56  186.96


M-Open  (Red course)

   1  Bjorn Widerstrom     BAOC  100.00    A      -      -      -        -     90.00  190.00


Amazon  (Blue course)

   1  Julie Raymond        BAOC     -      -   100.00 100.00 100.00      -       -    300.00
   2  Brenda Giese                  V      -      -    76.57  69.43    76.57     -    222.58 *
   3  Denise Kowal                  -   100.00    A      -      -        -     90.00  190.00


M-21+   (Blue course)

   1  Chuck Lyda                  88.87  92.50    V    89.92  85.24    92.50     -    449.04
   2  Greg Walker          CSU   100.00  45.47 100.00 100.00 100.00      -       -    445.47
   3  Neil Hunt            BAOC   88.89    A    84.50  89.17  86.15      -     78.46  427.18 *
   4  Donatas Ereminas            96.30 100.00  60.45  91.96  77.69      -       -    426.39 *
   5  Ken Walker Sr.       CSU    83.70  79.72  74.70  75.31  74.80      -       -    388.23
   6  Charlie Shahbazian   CAOC     A    81.86  76.92  85.99  70.70      -     70.98  386.45
   7  Mikkel Conradi       CSU      -      A      A    92.55  92.39      -    166.44  351.37 *
   8  Francois Leonard     BAOC     -      -      A      -    60.56      -     54.50  115.06
   9  Benjamin Legg        BAOC     -      -      A    46.40    -        -     41.76   88.16
  10  John Campbell                 -      -      -    46.08    A        -     41.47   87.55
  11  Shura Kretchetov              -      -      -    45.16    A        -     40.64   85.81 *

Notes:
   A = Absence credit for a day not competing.
   V = Volunteer credit for a day of volunteering at the event instead of competing.
   * = Rounding error--typically less than 0.01 point. Original calculations are not restricted
       to two decimal places.
  ** = Tie breaker.  Where ties exist, we first check to see how the tied skiers compared to
       one another in the same race.  If the tied skiers did not race against one another (or
       remain tied if they did race against each other), we then give a slight advantage of
       0.01 point to the skier with the later high score (it pays to ski the last event!!!).