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SCOA League Prizegiving

Congratulations to the following BADO members who won prizes (1st place) or certificates for the 2009/2010 season:

Tom WatkinsWhite1st
Andy MacGregorGreen1st
Dave WatkinsBlue1st
Tony LudfordBlue2nd
Mike FrizzellBrown2nd
Ben WatkinsWhite=3rd

The SCOA League prizegiving for the 2009/10 season is planned for the SOC event at Acres Down at 1:30 pm on 12th September 2010, the first event of the 2010/11 season.

SCOA League 2010/2011 Events

The proposed events are listed below. Please check the fixtures list and club websites for additions, cancellations, changes to dates/venues etc.

EventVenueDateClub
E01Acres Down12th Sep 2010SOC
E02Swinley West 10th Oct 2010BKO
E03Kingswood 24th Oct 2010TVOC
E04Bentley & Fritham 05th Dec 2010SOC
E05Wendover 19th Dec-2010TVOC
E06New Forest 09th Jan 2011SOC
E07TBC 15th May 2011BKO
E08TBC 22nd May 2011TVOC
E09TBC 12th Jun 2011BADO

The SCOA league is based on performance at a number of colour-coded events held through the season in the region. All members of SCOA clubs are automatically entered in the League. Your total score is the best 6 results out of all the events attended. The winner of each course gets 100 points per event, with other runner’s scores calculated on the time taken.1 point is lost for each minute or part of a minute more than the winner’s time, ie if someone is between 6 and 7 minutes slower than the winner they score 100 – 7 = 93 points for that event.

Rule Changes for 2010/2011 Season

There are several changes to the rules for this season. They are as follows:

  1. Adults (16+) running White, Yellow and Orange courses will be treated as non-competitive for the SCOA League.
  2. For all courses, trophies will only be awarded when the course winner has run in at least 4 events during the season.
  3. SCOA League event officials (Organiser, Planner and Controller) will be awarded 100 points on the course of their choice for the event they officiate at (once per season).
    This is to avoid disadvantaging those who volunteer to do these jobs, without which the SCOA League could not take place.

New threat to Blackwood Forest.

Forest Holidays (part of the Forestry Commission) have submitted a new application to build holiday chalets at Blackwood Forest. The original application was refused.
The extent of the development will almost certainly leave Blackwood unuseable for orienteering.

Southern Championships 2010

Congratulations to Andy Mac-gregor for winning the M70L class at Lydney.

Lyme Disease

Link to an interesting article on Lyme Disease.