Willow Glen Holiday Lights
Date: (Sat.) Dec. 16, 2017
Location: San Jose, CA
Event Director: 
- 650.302.4835
Course Setters: Tony Pinkham, Brad Wetmore, Jitka Hiscox
Type: C; 60- or 90-minute Light-O (Score-O) course and potluck social
Related Event Information
Event Announcement RouteGadget – Introduction RouteGadget – This Event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=404)
Event Write-Up
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This year we had approximately 135 people attend our annual event, and we did have more people pre-register for the event this year. It was wonderful to see so many people, especially young people and families, turn out this year. We had many scouts. The decorations in the neighborhood were incredible, and many other people were out walking around the neighborhood enjoying the decorations. I bet it's one of the best decorated neighborhoods in the Bay Area.
They have changed the way you get a permit to use the facility, and this year I went through Facilitron to get the permit, it is easy to get and they let me know right away that we had permission. Sometimes we wait months to get the permission, as you might notice that many of our events have "pending park permission" even two weeks before the event. Our club now has an account with them, and it will be easy for other event directors to get their permits. It's too bad that we can't use Facilitron to get permits for all our events, especially the East Bay events!
Peter Graube had a good crowd again this year to listen to his interesting Water Play presentation. He really holds his audience's attention.
Congratulations to Vicki Woolworth, the winner of this year's BAOC Service Award. Thanks, Vicki, for all you have done to help the club!
Thanks for making this event possible go to:
- Tony Pinkham and Brad Wetmore, the course setters, for all their hard work on this event. They set the really interesting courses and added content for the BAOC Holiday Lights webpage. Brad ran the starts and finishes, and Tony was out from 6:15–7:15 with the moving control. This year his moving control went in a loop, which made it more interesting to catch up with him. He's moving to Oregon, so we'll miss seeing him at this event in the future.
- Jitka Hiscox, our assistant course setter, who is interested in course setting and worked with Brad and Tony.
- Steve Haas for handling registration and the presentation of the Service Award.
- Bob Cooley for printing the maps.
- Chuck Spalding for help with the website.
- Brad Wetmore for setting up the on-line sign-up form.
- Marina Keeting for handling the insurance.
- Steve Harrison, Fyodor Konkov, Chuck Spalding, Matthias Kohler, and Shirley Pierce for help with results/finishes.
- Peter Graube for bringing in all the science equipment, and giving the popular Water Play presentation.
- Kathie Wiegant for help with setup/teardown, and everyone else who pitched in to help, including the father of a scout who helped the custodian figure out how to get the benches and tables down.
- And everyone for coming out and participating in the event.
Results
Willow Glen Holiday Lights
San Jose, CA
Saturday, December 16, 2017
The results for the 2017 Willow Glen Holiday Lights Night Score-O event are below. Note that tie scores were broken by elapsed time (if two people have the same scores, but different times, the one with less time on the course is placed ahead of the other competitor).
Note: 135 people registered, but I count at most only 80–90 people in the results, which means that some people didn’t turn in their answer sheets (or some group/family teams had a lot more than 3 people). If you didn’t finish a course, remember next time to let us know when you are done so that we don’t have to go out looking for you—this is a serious matter especially when we are competing in the wilderness.
My apologies if I misspelled your name (it was difficult reading some handwritings of names). If I have your name wrong, let know and I’ll correct your listing in these results.
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60-Minute Class 90-Minute Class
You can see the event map with the actual routes traveled by participants, and draw your own route for comparison, in RouteGadget for this event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=404). (Use of RouteGadget is explained here.)
- Since this is a Score-O setup with no E-punch, RouteGadget knows only the Start and Finish locations. All the control circles are included directly on the map image.
- You need to enter your name and total time in MMMSS format before drawing/uploading your route. For example, 89:52 is entered as 8952.
- When drawing your route be sure to visit the Finish only after you have completed your route. That is, the blue line pointing to the Finish should follow you throughout your route. You can also upload your GPS track if you have one.
- For the animation, each competitor's speed is averaged out over the whole length of their (manually drawn) route. For Score-O this works out just fine as competitors often end up taking very different routes anyway.
- To learn to use RouteGadget, view the video here (http://routegadget.net/download.cgi). (Note that the video has no audio!)
60-Minute Class
Control-Points Elapsed Time Total
Pl Name(s) Correct/Penalty Time Penalty Points Errors
1 Rex Winterbottom 310 0 58:18 0 310
2 Tapio & Johanna Karras 250 0 1:00:04 -10 240
3 Steve Haas 180 0 1:00:01 -10 170
4 Sophia, Julien, & Joe Knapp, Erica Morris 160 0 1:00:40 -10 150
5 Brian Hu 150 0 1:00:04 -10 140
6 Vicki Woolworth 150 0 1:00:15 -10 140
7 Volkov 140 0 1:00:44 -10 130
8 Ally Kraus, Patrick Lundquist 120 0 58:40 0 120
9 Tom, Liz, & Elijah Theis 110 0 59:01 0 110
10 Ali Chalaknia 110 0 59:07 0 110
11 Dennis Wildfogel 180 -60 1:00:40 -10 110 #61, #62
12 Nancy Lindeman, Kathie, Shirley Pierce 90 -30 1:01:50 -20 40 #64
13 Rachelle Romander 70 0 1:02:10 -30 40
90-Minute Class
Control-Points Elapsed Time Total
Pl Name(s) Correct/Penalty Time Penalty Points Errors
1 Jason Lee 400 0 1:26:10 0 400
2 Graham Brew 400 -30 1:27:45 0 370 #9
3 Jason Reed 480 -90 1:31:04 -20 370 #17, #40, #61
4 Thorsten Achterkirchen 360 0 1:28:41 0 360
5 Mary Beard 440 -30 1:34:33 -50 360 #302
6 Steve & Koda 330 0 1:29:30 0 330
7 Attack Squad 23 320 0 1:21:52 0 320
8 John Beard 320 0 1:29:08 0 320
9 Jedi Johnsons 320 0 1:29:22 0 320
10 Erika Reed 330 -30 1:32:18 -30 270 #36
11 Kyle Peter 280 -30 1:29:30 0 250 #64
12 Lobomir Å ebo 240 0 1:20:47 0 240
13 Irena Stefanova, Nikolay Gersiev 240 0 1:29:03 0 240
14 Joanne, Ada, & Blake Johnson 230 0 1:25:30 0 230
15 Oesterreich 220 0 1:27:07 0 220
16 Nelson 200 0 1:27:20 0 200
17 Maeghan Myles & Kelleher 240 -30 1:30:28 -10 200 #20
18 Julia Doubson, Claire Duffie 220 0 1:27:40 0 220
19 Betsy Farley, Jodi Hau 180 0 1:27:28 0 180
20 The Expert Family 160 0 1:28:22 0 160
21 Jun Fujisawa 160 0 1:29:10 0 160
22 Nick Corsano, Esther Heller 150 0 1:25:48 0 150
23 Jocelyn, Eliana, Mateo, Hijino 150 0 1:28:44 0 150
24 Akito Fujisawa 140 0 1:24:02 0 140
25 Van Berkey family 140 0 1:29:32 0 140
26 Ethier 150 0 1:30:03 -10 140
27 Neil Peter 130 0 1:11:25 0 130
28 Obico & Talati Team 130 0 1:22:45 0 130
29 Mike, Keelye, & Neil Butcer 130 0 1:22:59 0 130
30 Jeff Lanam 150 0 1:31:10 -20 130
31 Benj Brisal, Kenneth Stotts 110 0 1:30:00 0 110
32 Tom De Vrè 140 -30 1:30:03 -10 100 #64
33 Vawn 120 0 1:32:30 -30 90
34 George Mount & family 80 0 1:08:23 0 80
35 Rajesh 140 0 1:39:50 -100 40
36 Manasuiui 10 0 1:32:37 -30 0