Frick Park
Orienteering Meet
22 September 2019

It was a very hot day for late September, temperature around 85 by mid-afternoon.  Nevertheless, we had an excellent turnout with 120 people participating and 65 starts.  Everyone seemed to have a very good time; there were a lot of positive comments.  More than a few people said they liked the format of the event - in the past all orienteering events at Frick have had cross-country courses; this was the first one in a score format.  The only complaint I heard was that one of the controls was hung too low, almost on the ground.

Yaki Barak designed and set out the course.  He predicted that no one would clear it and he was right.  Even the people with the highest scores did not get to 6 or 7 controls.  No one went to all of the 60 point controls or even all of the 50 point controls.  There were a total of 30 controls, five were 10-pointers, five were 20-pointers, five were 30-pointers, five were 40-pointers, five were 50-pointers and five were 60-pointers for a  total possible of 1050 points.  The value of the controls were influenced by how easy they were to get to.  Because the course participants were to be at all skill levels, some controls were very easy, some a little harder and so on to the most difficult ones.  Because everyone had the same map, all controls were game for anyone on any skill level.  Some beginners deliberately tried and were successful in getting to one or two difficult controls; something they were justifiably proud of.

In the table below, people are listed from highest net score to lowest.  A number of people exceeded the 90-minute time limit and were penalized 11 points for each minute (or partial minute) late.  A few entries have very short times; these are not mistakes - the people only went on the course of about an hour or less.  In the column "Category" I have attempted to categorize the participants so they can compare their results against others in the same category, rather than just comparing to the person with the most points.  The categories are my guess about the skill level of the participants:  E (expert) is for people who typically do the advanced courses, I (intermediate) is for people who typically do the novice or intermediate courses, B (beginner) is for people who are doing orienteering for the first time or have only done a beginner course before and U (unknown) is for people that I couldn't make a guess about.  If your see my categorization and disagree, let me know and I will change it.

We needed extra volunteers for this event.  Thanks to Giuseppina Mecchia, Lee Bash, Barbara Johnstone, Yaki Barak, Laurie Opila, and Mark Puda for handling registration.  Thanks to Katrina Weinmann, Debbie Stiles, Lee Bash and Andy Mowrey for handling start/finish.  Thanks to Joe Logan and Naomi Jarvis for providing instruction.  And thanks to Andy Strat, John Huffman, Kevin Fisher and Lee Bash for doing control pickup.

Alexis Rzewski was only in the registration area for part of the event; however, he managed to snap a few photos; you can see them here

Our next event is on October 6 at Yellow Creek State Park;  it will feature five cross-country courses.
Name Club Category Raw Score Time Penalty Score
Kevin Fisher WPOC E 840 88:32 0 840
Alexis Rzewski WPOC E 830 90:54 -11 819
Sydney Fisher WPOC E 780 90:49 -11 769
Katrina Weinmann WPOC E 750 87:55 0 750
Jim Trautmann WPOC E 520 86:04 0 520
Ryan & Ivan E 520 89:59 0 520
Joe Logan WPOC E 500 84:02 0 500
Luca Rzewski WPOC I 540 93:25 -44 496
Will Levine I 430 89:09 0 430
Andy Strat WPOC E 410 43:54 0 410
Irvin Family (3) I/E 440 96:49 -77 363
KKBR (4) U 330 85:48 0 330
Brian (2) U 330 86:29 0 330
David Ross E 330 87:22 0 330
Edna Spang E 310 88:27 0 310
Nick Fedarek U 290 85:20 0 290
Tatarinov (2) I 290 89:14 0 290
Vitro WPOC U 270 85:38 0 270
Alex Rudenko & Melda Korkut  I 270 89:00 0 270
Will & Kelli Keel & Andrew U 250 81:07 0 250
Andy Mowrey WPOC E 250 86:41 0 250
Michael Brown E 250 88:11 0 250
George (4) U 240 83:38 0 240
Christee & John Homan WPOC I 240 88:05 0 240
Katerina Kimes U 240 89:48 0 240
Sleepy Bears (3) B 230 84:53 0 230
Antonio Gumucro (3) U 220 80:58 0 220
Johan Holm I 260 93:53 -44 216
Chris & Lucy T U 210 66:57 0 210
Abel Sun I 210 83:58 0 210
Komoroski  (4) B 200 83:51 0 200
Marsha U 200 88:10 0 200
Jonas & Carlos B 240 94:03 -55 185
Tommy & Michael Nelson B 180 84:26 0 180
Kozak (4) B 180 84:56 0 180
Avery (2) B 190 90:35 -11 179
Giuseppina Mecchia WPOC I 170 82:13 0 170
Emily Voelker B 170 84:30 0 170
Jacob Trudeau (3) B 160 83:25 0 160
Scott & Hilary & Erica B 160 86:09 0 160
Susan Caro (2) I 160 87:47 0 160
Joanne Buchbinder & Thomas M B 160 89:08 0 160
Max Caro (2) I 160 89:57 0 160
Rex Danger Vest (3) B 200 93:49 -44 156
Kathrine & Sara Halo WPOC I 320 104:25 -165 155
Tali Shalom-Barak WPOC I 150 85:33 0 150
Debbie Stiles WPOC I 150 88:58 0 150
Scott (2) B 140 63:07 0 140
Condie (2) WPOC I 200 95:04 -66 134
Josiah & Eric Smith B 120 78:40 0 120
Sue Holm & Shlomo T B 120 87:07 0 120
Larissa Campuzano (3) B 110 74:42 0 110
Mike Griffen & Gary Peter & Michelle Bothun B 140 92:31 -33 107
Mark Puda WPOC I 100 90:20 -11 89
Rick (2) B 140 94:02 -55 85
Shannon Wyszonierski (2) B 70 77:06 0 70
Phillips (2) B 80 90:57 -11 69
Katie Maloney B 50 79:51 0 50
Stephen Brown I 170 101:55 -132 38
Laurie Opila WPOC I 140 101:10 -132 8
Smell the Roses (2) WPOC I 170 108:51 -209 -39
Oren Barak (6) B 160 108:54 -209 -49
Barak B 160 108:54 -209 -49
Bob Dodson E 710 229:39 -1540 -830
Andrew Kuznetsov B 160 No Start DSQ