Elysian Park - Echo Park Urban Score-O, November 7th 2010

This was a test of the "Thinking Sport"
Not Just a Walk in the Park.
Results updated 11/16/2010 10.20pm


Meet director - Olive Kearney - - -      your event contact
Mapper and clue setter - Scott Schmitz

Thank you everyone for a great turnout. Did you enjoy it? Email your comments to the SConet email group or contact Olive via email

Photos: some have been loaded to the SConet yahoo group website - you need to be signed up to Sconet _and_ have a YAHOO ID to access them. You are encouraged to load your own photos there.

This event tested route choice and map reading.
Scoring was cunning this year, to test your THINKING ABILITY under pressure.- - There were wrong-answer and overtime penalties.
      So there were fewer wrong answers this year - penalizing them made guesses a thing of the past - and allowing everyone 2 hrs made for very few overtimes.

New faces - including many local residents who were excited about using their streets.
Old faces - someone even remembered my Griffith Park Christmas event when I gave o-flag tree ornaments to finishers :-)
Well-known faces - thank you for coming out in support.

An intriguing area for Score-O, and it seemed a great social occasion. People had a chance to mingle both before and after.
       It was not surprising to Scott and myself that our talented experienced orienteers found it a challenge too. How people did , which controls were most visited? Alex Kiperman did brilliantly and Brad Weyers also broke the 800 barrier.

#200 green zone    Afterwards John and I drove up to this control - a magnificent view of downtown and Dodger Stadium.
    Why dont you take the map and find some other spots you may have missed?

Lets talk about Meet Directing and VOLUNTEERS

This was my last time as MD for this club. Over the years I have loved every minute of MDing events. Working with the Course setter to be sure they have all they need, that the assembly area fits their course starts etc. Scott Schmitz and I even walked the hills to double check a few clues, and we simplified a few of them for you! Get to the control and prove it.

Finding volunteers is really a rewarding part of the MD work. Ask them personally - think about what that person might like to do - who they might enjoy being with on a drudge task.
I like to mix people up - get them to make new social contacts within a club. Get juniors to meet advanced Oers. etc etc. As there was no control retrieval at this event, I was determined to use some of the fast runners to assist on the more mundane jobs like registration. Give them a taste of what so many others do for them at every event. Gotcha!

Here are the special people for this Event, please join me and thank them:
Gary Dolgin and Jim Whitted were chiefs of the Fees and Welcome-form-filling stations. Gary missed his shade tree. Jim looks forward to Meet Directing - some time . Usually control pickers Brad Weyers helped Gary and Jeremy Swirsley helped Jim.

Nancy Pistole was very alert and intuitive and stepped in when things anywhere needed doing.

Cal-tech - Luigi Perotti, Madeline Miller and Tommy Ingulfsen
I thought it a great opportunity for CalTech O-club to step up to the table, so I asked them to handle the results. They worked so hard and said I should have chosen 5th graders who were better at addition :-) I asked Alex Kiperman to join them - he is at college for Computer Science - an opportunity for these young tech people to meet . I may consider 5th graders another time! Seriously, it was planned that they enter the answers on a spreadsheet but Scott's laptop failed . So it was count on your fingers time.

Joe Vliestra came a long way to bring his First Aid kit and knowledge - luckily he didnt even need to help with a blister - but he was there with Amanda in readiness.
John Kearney, manned the Finish timing, the refreshments, and kept an eye on everything and was such a help all week as I organized this and that.

What you have been waiting for :- FINAL results updated 11/16 10.20pm.
Elysian Park Score-O. November 7th 2010
 
 
PlaceIndividualTotalScoreBonusAnswe
Penalty
Time
Penalty
Bib
1Alex Kiperman8958854030029
2Brad Wyers80076040001
3Joel Thompson73569540006
4Kevin Bauldauf725685400031
5Eugene Kiperman6706504002030
6Luigi Perotti665655100020
7Carl Finer65064040201037
8Nancy Pistole645605400035
9*Joe St. John6356054010015
9John Kuechle6356351010017
11*Tommy Ingulfren630590400028
11Cory Zelmer630650400608
13Madeline Miller590550400019
14Danny Trudeau5706004010609
15Clare Durand5305204030024
16*Kristen St. John525515100016
17Adam Reilly515475400039
18*Jeremy Swirsley47043040002
19*Allan Pincus425385400026
20Hima Hassenruck-Gudipati380340400018
21Luna Sena3753554020044
22Anne Mullins33029040003
22*Gary Dolgin3303304004041
24Kim Poste310350030107
25Lauren MacMullan250270020042
26Laurens Fein2302103010043
27Harvey Woo19019000023
28Jim Whitted1702101005034
29Mike Freeman16517501005
29William Reilly165375403022038
31Vinh Huynh15015000033
32Fred Wang6070010012
 
dnfDan Hart40
dnsVikki Lam?
dnsSvetlana Lavrova?
dnsRick Toomim?
 
 
PlaceTeams TotalScoreBonusAnswer PenaltyTime PenaltyBib
1Stephen Kashynski and the Killer Guppies550510400011
2Brian Baldauf and WHEATIES545505400032
3Belle Philibosian & Look Far495455400036
4Jackie & Dan Dwyer-Wong485445400021
5Team Saara4804504001045
6Brian Jensen Family475435400025
7Team Sanna4504204010046
8Joe & Amanda Vlietstra440470003027
9Jeanette & Carl McKinley385345400014
10Don & Sharon Sieveke31031000022
11Cecilia Schreyer & Team27523540004
12Team Grunburg2452154010010
14Scott Wilson and the Wolf Dragons19019000014

* 2009 results
Allan Pincus525
Joe St John510
Kristen St John500
Gary Dolgin315
Jeremy Swirsley100

Thank you and send in your comments to Meet director and event contact :-      Olive Kearney