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7WRC Wrap-Up
This is the page where post-champs
updates, news, and scandals will be posted.
Check in here every little while to see what
is the latest. Entries are presented most
recent at the top. Immediately below are
some links to interesting past entries. Email us here at
info@rogaine2006.com.au
Extra Points for Some
Wicked Didge Playing!
Take another look at the photo gallery (see
page#6 here). Trevor Gollan reports that
it's worth noting that Tony Garbellini (on the
left didgeridoo in the concert photos)
participated with honour in the rogaine (36th
with 1610 points) and danced more than anyone
during the concert. How about 1,001 points for
that effort.
5.30pm Saturday - 35 days since 7WRC
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The Secrets of the
Champions - PowerNap!
We've sourced this story from Dennis de
Monchy, one half of the winning connection.
Read it here. For all you young kids out
there, there are some important tips in the
story, like the tips in the following:
Feeling a bit battered we got a few more
controls before W3. We decided a powernap
would help us along here, but more importantly
just taking the weight off our legs seemed to
do wonders.
Gazing up at the stars you could understand
why they had placed an Observatory nearby. A
magnificent starscape was stretched across the
sky. Just as I was picking out the Big Dipper,
and the Southern Cross, Chris’ alarm went off
and it was time to go again. Some more food
and we were off.
5.15pm Friday - 34 days since 7WRC
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Bring on More Stories!
Michael Watts has sent in a report about his
team's participation in the 7WRC.
Read it here. It's wonderful to get more
stories from the championships. We love this
line from Michael's story:
Our initial plan was to treat WRC7 as a
12 hour event and a 6 hour event – but without
the 3 month gap!
7.30pm Thursday - 33 days since 7WRC
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Right of Reply from Mr Course Himself!
Mike Hotchkis, 7WRC Course Setter
extraordinaire, has his right of reply.
More his own two cents worth, really.
In raising the issue of course size, Bob
Reddick has hit upon one of my pet subjects.
Here's my response and a few other remarks...
Regards, Mike.
Hopefully there are some more punters out
there who want to contribute to this
discussion; give us an email at
info@rogaine2006.com.au.
5.00pm Thursday - 19 days since 7WRC
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Course Design Agent Provocateur!
A v. v. thought provoking discussion starter
from our US friend, Bob Reddick.
Open it by clicking here. It is about
design, and the merits or otherwise of large /
small courses. Bob carries the argument that a
'course should be of a length and number of
controls that the top expected team gets 98%
of controls in 24 hours'.
We here at the Champs Wrap-Up Desk are in the
"a course is a course, whatever" camp, but we
are curious about the "in a big course, it's
hard to compare team efforts, except in the
planning phase"
argument.
Email us here at the Desk,
info@rogaine2006.com.au, with further
discussion.
7.30pm Monday - 16 days since 7WRC
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Analysis across 4 Hour Intervals!
Some further ultra-interesting analysis from the Trev'ster
Gollan.
See attached an alternate view of the
competition at 7WRC. It shows that Greg
Barbour & David Rowlands were winning after
6-hours, David Goerke & Rob Preston lead for
the next 12-hours, then Dennis de Monchy &
Chris Forne cleared away from the field in the
final 8-hours.
The arrows confirm that people spread all over
the course.
Cheers, Trev.
Email us here at the Desk,
info@rogaine2006.com.au, with further
discussion.
5.30pm Monday - 16 days since 7WRC
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Top 10 Analysis!
Ian Brown has provided some absolutely
sweet analysis of the
Top 10+ results according to six hour splits
(click here to see them).
We at the Champs Wrap-Up Desk have included
some of our favourite lines below. The
analysis confirms a few long-held truths:
- Rogaines are won – and lost – in the dark.
- Even the best teams go out hard and slow down
when the sun sets.
- Most teams can lift again after sunrise. If
you can’t you’re done.
A few other trends might also be drawn:
- Returning to the Hash House was a negative
factor (but the teams might say they needed
it!).
- Water and heat issues seem to have impacted
some teams.
- A few of the top teams seemed to have
navigational difficulties at times (or they were
resting or bandaging feet or something).
8.30pm Friday - 13 days since 7WRC
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Organiser's Report!
Alan Mansfield has written up a dashing
story for the NSWRA newsletter:
you can get an advanced copy
of the article here.
We at the Champs Wrap-Up Desk have included
a couple of our favourite lines below.
"You Killed Us Mike", Tom Landon Smith (Team
AROC)
Out right 8th, 9th and 10th place tell an
interesting tale of the variety of route
choices to be selected. 8th place chose a
route like a three pointed star with the Hash
House at the centre. 9th place went south east
then east then north east in a counter
clockwise direction whilst 10th place went
clockwise to the north then east and then
south east. The result as you can see is the
same points and 1minute and 6 seconds between
8th and 10th place. All three teams contain
rogainers, orienteers, multisporters and
runners of considerable experience and skill
who came up with different solutions to route
choice selection and revision on the run.
Rogainers only go rogaining so that they can
indulge in a good autopsy!
8.00pm Friday - 13 days since 7WRC
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Interesting Topic of Conversation #1 -
Navlight!
To demonstrate the Champs Wrap-Up Desk's
balance, here is another perspective on the
new technology from John Soden.
In regards to the navlight system - its
still not failsafe, our teams download (team
21) crashed the system and we never got our
splits - lucky we had the trusty punchcard!
Email us here at the Desk,
info@rogaine2006.com.au, with further
discussion.
7.30pm Friday - 13 days since 7WRC
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Interesting Topic of Conversation #1 -
Navlight!
Andrew McComb has sent in a very good
suggestion.
Navlight was great. Ideally would love to have
every team member have to wear and activate
Navlight at each control - this would
eliminate the still common practice of teams
stretching the rule as to how close each goes
to a control.
Email us here at the Desk,
info@rogaine2006.com.au, with further
discussion.
9.30am Thursday - 12 days since 7WRC
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NSW Stingers - not just Good Rogainers!
Rob Preston, member of the second placed team
from the NSW Stingers Club (together with
Damon
Goerke) has compiled a report at
www.nswstingers.com.
Very interesting reading.
9.00pm Wednesday - 11 days since 7WRC
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Interesting Topic of Conversation #1!
We are heartened here at the Champs Wrap-Up
Desk that there are still at least 200 of you
out there logging in to the website each day
(according to our only sometimes reliable
statistics). This being the case, we thought
we'd give an "interesting topic of
conversation" a go.
So here we go.
Let's start with a general positive: the
Navlight scoring system.
The general vibe we have received
post-event is that the Navlight was a big
success. It worked very well for a World
Rogaining Champs, enabling tight analysis of
timing etc. Also a plus for the processing of
the 700 odd entries. Some questions for
entrants: how were they to use? Were they
unobtrusive? Questions for any interested
party: should we be looking to use a system
like this for all non-urban rogaines?
Where could we go next with the use of
technology?
Email us here at the Desk,
info@rogaine2006.com.au, and we'll
collate the ideas.
9.00pm Monday - 9 days since 7WRC
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Even More Photo Favourites - Lots more!
The Champs Wrap-Up desk has been chained
to the computer for the last 25 hours straight
importing lots and lots of photos (everyone
that we have received) into the photo gallery.
Not much sorting going on yet, but lots of
happy browsing for you dear reader. The photo
below, for your information, is of the lucky
winners of the 7WRC boot trophy, at one of
their last water pickups, we think.
On another topic, the Route Gadget (see Map
Analysis) is getting a steady stream of
recorders - good stuff - keep it up.
9.00pm Sunday - 8 days since 7WRC
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Photo Favourites!
The photo gallery has been updated with
about a dozen or so more cracking images. Our
favourite would have to be camping amongst the
flowers, domestic bliss (P3 of gallery), the
lonely road - just you, your mate, and the
path (P2 of gallery), or overlooking the Hash
House to the Grand High Tops (P3 of gallery).
Please send through a note on which you think
is a beaut photo - not only does it give us a
warm and appreciated feeling here at the Desk
- it also helps us with our editorial choices
for what to include in the column.
8.00pm Saturday - 7 days since 7WRC
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A Reminder that We're Famous!
Those of you who were too busy last
weekend to follow the Champs Report Desk
commentary might not know
about the article in The New York Times.
Oh yeah, we of the 7WRC rate a mention all
right. At the finish, the most important part.
3.00pm Saturday - 7 days since 7WRC
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How Good is that RouteGadget!
We here at the Champs Wrap-Up Desk are huge,
huge fans of the resource (link through from
the map analysis page). It is, for example,
most cool to see where teams got a bit lost,
circling around a control some.
Can we recommend you do an animation on at
least the first two placing teams. They head
off in different directions, but go along some
similar lines (just in reverse). Note, due to
the way that the winning team entered their
data, their animation finishes earlier.
Another neat animation is the comparison of
the two teams on the same score (in the
1700s). They also go in reverse directions,
and at some point you can summise that they
may have crossed paths. Wonder if there were
words spoken? "Gunna beathca!". "Nah, we you".
A beautiful rogaine thing, they drew.
7.15pm Friday - 6 days since 7WRC
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Not Enough Time in the Day!
We here at the Champs Wrap-Up Desk are also
charged with uploading photos to the gallery.
Rest assured, oh good and patient reader,
about a million photos are on the way. They
look tops, they just need a little down sizing
& renaming before they are uploaded to the gallery. We'll
update you when there are more in there.
5.30pm Friday - 6 days since 7WRC
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Nice Analysis, V. Nice Analysis!
Scott Hamilton has provided a swag of v.
interesting analysis:
I've plotted the control routes for the
top 50 placed teams in the rogaine
(click here to see that folder). If they
returned to the hash house during the event
and punched in and out with a Navlight punch
their second loop is drawn in blue.
There is also an image in that directory
called
controls_visit_frequency.jpg. The number
in red represents how many visits that control
had.
Many thanks, Scott. From Champs Wrap-Up Page's
quick skim it looks like Control 36 (ESE of
and near to Hash House) was the most visited
on 204 team hits, whilst Control 32 (far west
of course, only 30 points) was the least
visited on 20 teams.
5.00pm Friday - 6 days since 7WRC
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What We Can't Leave Behind (U2)!
Some messages from Ian our strong and
faithful administrator:
1) 'Found' items -
email me if anything was lost and I can
check the box.
2) Extra clothing orders - about 15-20 people
said they were interested in ordering
clothing. If more are interested, there is a
chance we could fill out an order. Could
people
email me with details of what they would
buy. I could then follow up by email if there
was enough (ie. requesting payment by post, or
even to reopen the online orders) or to advise
if we don't get enough.
3) Starters Certificates - many were not
collected. If you want them please send a
stamped self-addressed envelope to me (Ian
Almond, 220 Cordeaux Road, Mount Kembla NSW
2526, Australia) & I will
send on. If people want their certificate
returned without folding they need to provide
a C5 size envelope (229 x 162mm) which
requires a $1.00 stamp. One idea is for people
to send a group request.
4.30pm Friday - 6 days since 7WRC
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The Sweep!
A note from Dave Griffith's (the
Professor):
While you racehorses were sweating it out out
there, we were betting on ya - this is the
land of the Melbourne Cup after all! $1 in,
nearest to the winner's score gets the loot.
The results are in and the sweep is won. 24
bucks to the winners:
Available points 3430
Winning points 2610
(76.1%)
Biggest pessimist: Graeme Cooper 1800 (52.4%)
Biggest optimist: Alan Mansfield (how
fitting!) 3030 (88.3%)
The winner: Dave Sigley 2550 (74.2%) [-1.9%]
Second by a whisker: Matt Mellor 2680 (78.1%)
[+2.0%]
And Matt had never seen a rogaine before.
Congrats to two of the hardest workers on the
day.
PS - On re-reading the "race call", both Dave
and Matt thrashed both the "Champs Report
Desk" and Sue in the World Rogaining Tipping
Champs. Due acknowledgement please!
Note from Champs Wrap-Up Page - yeah, but
you had the advantage of being there - we
think there needed to be a handicap - this is
the land of the Melbourne Cup after all.
3.45pm Thursday - 5 days since 7WRC
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Final Results Are IN!
We are happy to report that final results are
in. Now, we might discover some typos and the
like, so for a little while they will be draft
final results. To offset that, we have also
made available the Navlight data for ALL
competitors.
3.30pm Thursday - 5 days since 7WRC
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One Door Closes, Another Opens!
As the Champs Report Page was saying, when one
door closes, often another opens. With better
half's tacit blessing, we are now reborn as
Champs Wrap-Up Page! Irrepressible!!
For the first item of this new column, the
Champs Wrap-Up Page would like to revisit one
of the last items on the Report Page: the
graph of scores. It appears to us (see below)
to be a beautifully linear distribution, with
only the lowest and highest scores curving
away. What does this say about the event? Is
it typical of rogaines? Is it what we wanted
with a WRC? We'd love to hear from you.
2.30pm Thursday - 5 days since 7WRC
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If you have any feedback, please
do not hesitate to email us here at the Champs Wrap-Up Desk on
info@rogaine2006.com.au
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