2019 Summer Series
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We are happy to announce the return of the BAOC Summer Series for another year. Similar to last year, this series of moderate-length events will be held from June through August on some of our more-urban and less-steep maps. Thus allowing us to continue orienteering, even during the hotter days of summer.
There will be six events this year, as listed below. Your best four of the six races will count toward your Summer Series Final Ranking.
Each event will include a "ranking" course (most likely in the form of a Middle-distance event, around 5 km), and another course more suitable for beginners. Some events may also include longer/alternative options for those folks not wanting to participate in the ranking event, and some events might offer more than one ranking course. See the webpage for each event for the details for that event.
All participants of the ranking events will be scored (based on time) alongside each other in a single league, using a handicapping system to account for age and gender. This is the same scheme we used in 2017 and last year (see below for details). The best four of six scores will be used in the final ranking. As in previous years, credit will be given for Course Setting and Event Directing.
More details about event locations and specifics are on the individual event webpages linked below.
We look forward to seeing you out there!
– Your BAOC Event Coordination Team: Deron, George, Graham, Marie-Josée, and Scott
(April 25, 2019)
The Schedule
The Summer Series will include the following events (click on the date to go to the event's announcement page):
- June 2: U.C. Berkeley Campus, Berkeley (results page, event points)
- June 16: Oyster Bay, San Leandro (results page, event points, Series standings)
- July 7: Presidio of San Francisco (Fort Scott), San Francisco (results page, event points, Series standings)
- July 21: Mills College, Oakland (results page, event points, Series standings)
- August 11: Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill (results page, event points, Series standings)
- August 25: Bedwell Bayfront Park, Menlo Park (results page, event points, Series standings)
Note: The July 21st event was originally planned for Golden Gate Park, but that permit could not be obtained. Thanks to the scrambling of our Event Coordinators, we were able to have the event at Mills College that day.
Note to Beginners
BAOC welcomes beginners to events with "clinics" that introduce orienteering and with "beginner" courses. We hope you will come to one or more of the Summer Series events (there is no requirement to attend all the events), and/or to our "regular" events listed in the schedule.
Important Note to All
Everyone must observe out-of-bounds areas indicated on the maps. Please note, in particular, that olive-green areas are out of bounds.
Failure to stay out of out-of-bounds areas could jeopardize our ability to get permission to hold events at the venue, as well as being unfair to those participants who go around the areas.
Some of the events will use maps with ISSOM (International Standard for Sprint Orienteering Maps) symbols, which indicate impassible features like buildings, fences, vegetation, and walls. Note that the rules forbid crossing (including reaching over or through) any feature shown on the map as "impassible", even if it's physically possible to cross.
- A sheet showing all the symbols used on ISSOM maps is available as this file (1MB/PDF).
- The International Specification for Sprint Orienteering Maps (ISSOM 2007) that is in effect through December 31, 2019 is in this document (PDF/285KB).
- A new edition of the Sprint Specification (ISSprOM 2019) will take effect January 1, 2020. (The new file on the IOF website is "huge"; a reasonable-size copy is available here (PDF/1.9MB).)
Scoring and Awards
To make things a little more interesting, participants can accumulate points throughout the series based on their results. Some of the best minds in the world's greatest database companies, and in the nation's finest research labs have deliberated carefully, and arrived at a scoring system for the Summer Series. (It's the same system that was used in 2017 and last year, crafted by François and Dennis.)
The scoring system for the Summer Series will combine all participants into one category by making adjustments, based on age and gender, to each person's performance. The person with the best adjusted performance in a given race will be awarded 1000 points. Everyone else will be awarded points in proportion to how their own adjusted performance compares to that of the person given 1000 points.
At each event in the Series, there will be an identified ranking course, which will be used for scoring. The other course(s) offered at the event will have no affect on the Series scoring.
Here are the details.
- We will use tables developed by USA Track and Field that make adjustments to 10 km road-race times based on age and gender.
- Each participant in the Summer Series has a fixed reference time based on those tables.
- For a given race, each person's adjusted performance ratio is calculated as their actual time for that race divided by their reference time.
- The person with the best adjusted performance ratio for the day is the leader and is awarded 1000 points.
- For anyone else, their point score is the leader's adjusted performance ratio divided by their own adjusted performance ratio, then multiplied by 1000, and rounded off to the nearest whole number.
This means it is possible for someone who finishes with the slowest legal time in a race to still have the highest point score for the day. So, don't give up!
Now that you've studied the methodology for scoring in minute detail, perhaps an example is in order.
- Suppose there is an event with just three people: a 45-year-old male who we'll call "F"; a 70-year-old male called "D", and a 25-year-old female called "T". Suppose their times on the course are as follows:
- F 45:51
- T 49:30
- D 57:20
- Given their ages and genders, their reference times are as follows. (Links to the USATF tables that we are using for reference times can be found here (http://runscore.com/Alan/AgeGrade.html). We're using the "10 km" column on the "AgeStdHMS" tab in the "Male Road (http://runscore.com/Alan/MaleRoadStd2015.xlsx)" and "Female Road (http://runscore.com/Alan/FemaleRoadStd2015.xlsx)" spreadsheets.)
- F 28:50
- T 30:20
- D 36:09
- Dividing course time by reference time gives the adjusted performance ratios for the course:
- F 1.59017
- T 1.63187
- D 1.58598
- So, D is the leader (despite having the slowest time) and gets 1000 points. To get the points for the others, divide their ratios into D's, multiply by 1000, and you get F with 997 points and T with 972.
Conclusion: If you want to win in the Summer Series, either (a) get fast, or (b) get old fast.
By popular demand, final standings will be based on each person's four best scores in the six-event Series.
For the record, note that François Léonard is the Official Scorer, so all queries and compliments should go to him. Complaints should be sent to DeptOfComplaints@whitehouse.gov (Good luck with that!).
We need to know everyone's age in order to make these calculations. As usual, your orienteering age is your age at the end of the calendar year. So what we really want is your year of birth. There will be sign-up sheets at either registration or at the E-punch download at each event. Please put down your name and year of birth.
Some "fine print":
- Everyone who has a valid finish for that day's full ranking course will be awarded points (except group entries will not earn points). However, to be eligible for the cumulative awards, you must be a BAOC member in good standing as of the date of the final event of the series.
- If you don't tell us your year of birth, we will assume you are a 21-year-old male. If you like that idea better than you like getting more points, well, that's up to you.
- If we find out your age after some of the point calculations have been made, we will try to go back and recalculate your point scores for the earlier events. In no case, though, will such retroactive point adjustments exceed 1000 points for a given race. (In other words, if you don't tell us your year of birth in time, and you should have been the leader that day, you won't quite get all the credit you might have gotten.)
- Course Setters for events in the Series will be given points for their own event equal to their best other point score in the series. Event Directors (some of whom may be able to run in their own event) will be given the higher of (a) their actual score in the event or (b) their best other point score in the series.
Final Series Results
Congratulations to everyone who participated in the events. We hope you had fun.
Thanks to everyone who helped at the events. The events would not have been successful without you.
- The methodology of determining Summer Series points is explained above. In particular, note that group/team entries do not earn points, and 21-year-old male is assumed if we don't have a person's birth year ("M21" below).
- As noted above, Event Directors and Course Setters receive credit for their service. Points earned by those credits are annotated with "cr" below.
- Event abbreviations:
- UCB = U.C. Berkeley; OBP = Oyster Bay Park; SFP = San Francisco Presidio; MCO = Mills College, Oakland; DVC = Diablo Valley College; BBP = Bedwell Bayfront Park
- You can click on a column heading below to go to the results page for the event.
Num. Best Pl Name UCB OBP SFP MCO DVC BBP Total Runs Four 1 François Léonard 1000 1000 1000cr 979 3979 4 3979 2 Rex Winterbottom 860 886 894 965cr 965 793 5363 6 3710 3 Yurii Konovalenko 826 1000 929 933 780 4468 5 3688 4 Daniel Sebo 801 965cr 894 965 849 4474 5 3673 5 Dennis Wildfogel 826 929 982 755 3492 4 3492 6 Steve Gregg 852 843 903 768 3366 4 3366 7 Wayne Staats 700 804 824 868cr 868 705 4769 6 3364 8 Chuck Spalding 833 769 767 842 768 3979 5 3212 9 Steve Haas 709 721 783 753 761 783cr 4510 6 3080 10 Deron van Hoff 704 761cr 739 756 761 3721 5 3017 11 Fyodor Konkov 583 718 747 708 741 644 4141 6 2914 12 Sheila Cotter 695 808 739 644 2886 4 2886 13 Jan Cisar 709 740 657 746 603 3455 5 2852 14 Riley Culberg 860 1000 960 2820 3 2820 15 Werner Haag 701 566 730 666 716 3379 5 2813 16 Julia Doubson 853 991 793 2637 3 2637 17 Bob Strauss 644 651 587 626 658 3166 5 2579 18 Jeff Goodwin 789 913 848 2550 3 2550 19 Eduard Nasybulin 512 486 658 636 695 558 3545 6 2547 20 Matthias Kohler 509 721 592 721cr 2543 4 2543 21 Tapio Karras 750 940 786 2476 3 2476 22 Evan Custer 606 637 666 554 2463 4 2463 23 Graham Brew 819 881 705 2405 3 2405 24 Jason Lee 614 393 579 536 647 2769 5 2376 25 Peter Hsia 564 609 569 589 507 2838 5 2331 26 Marie-Josée Parayre 783 881cr 592 2256 3 2256 27 Andrej Masalkov 709 722 774 2205 3 2205 28 Lori Huberman 743cr 743 700 2186 3 2186 29 Derek Maclean 623 761 690 2074 3 2074 30 Jason Reed 427 675 466 470 298 2336 5 2038 (M21) 31 Erin Schirm 1000 1000 2000 2 2000 32 Michael Behrens 564 762 604 1930 3 1930 33 Erika Reed 616 613 651 1880 3 1880 34 Kevin Culberg 795 484 507 1786 3 1786 35 Ray Rosenbaum 651 521 523 1695 3 1695 36 Stephanie Maclean 558 586 502 1646 3 1646 37 Kai Douglas 503 479 619 1601 3 1601 38 Jeff Lanam 344 394 371 413 1522 4 1522 39 Penny DeMoss 695 813 1508 2 1508 40 Stephen Harrison 744 755 1499 2 1499 41 Greg Favor 632 791 1423 2 1423 42 Barbara Studihradova 423 605 366 1394 3 1394 (M21) 43 Theo Verhoeven 714 676 1390 2 1390 44 Tommy Ingulfsen 682 658 1340 2 1340 45 Florine Tailleur 652 674 1326 2 1326 46 Eric Rosenzweig 691 615 1306 2 1306 47 Carlo Giacometti 621 683 1304 2 1304 48 Vicki Woolworth 625cr 625 1250 2 1250 49 Gavin Wyatt-Mair 656 588 1244 2 1244 50 Christian Raeim 701 539 1240 2 1240 51 Quincy Rosenzweig 632 596 1228 2 1228 52 Liu Ambrose 708 516 1224 2 1224 (M21) 53 Mark Schneider 391 444 347 1182 3 1182 (M21) 54 Taylor Pospisil 595 577 1172 2 1172 (M21) 55 Eleonor Raeim 711 457 1168 2 1168 56 Nick Corsano 562 595 1157 2 1157 57 Tom de Vre 592 466 1058 2 1058 58 Shura Kretchetov 479 574 1053 2 1053 59 Yana Konovalenko 538 494 1032 2 1032 (M21) 60 Max Behrens 472 556 1028 2 1028 61 Olga Kraght 519 502 1021 2 1021 62 Jennifer Kerr 507 459 966 2 966 63 Rosemary Johnson 486 470 956 2 956 64 Tori Borish 952 952 1 952 65 Jenny Casanova 925 925 1 925 66 Zander Rosenzweig 399 468 867 2 867 (M21) 67 Mark Prior 852 852 1 852 68 Michael Ertmann 833 833 1 833 69 Anastasiya Gordeeva 807 807 1 807 70 Brooke Staats 371 420 791 2 791 71 Johanna Merriss 783 783 1 783 72 Takashi Sugiyama 777 777 1 777 73 Riley Dunn 767 767 1 767 74 Beiduo Rao 419 347 766 2 766 (M21) 75 Marcy Beard 755 755 1 755 76 Amalie Ertmann 744 744 1 744 77 Mikkel Conradi 732 732 1 732 78 Michael Lyons 701 701 1 701 79 Clifton Lyles 336 357 693 2 693 (M21) 80 Sam Coradetti 666 666 1 666 81 Matej Sebo 648 648 1 648 82 George Minarik 646 646 1 646 83 Zach Lyons 635 635 1 635 84 Gavin Williams 632 632 1 632 85 Gary Kraght 621 621 1 621 86 Samuel Kretchetov 381 238 619 2 619 (M21) 87 Leslie Minarik 592 592 1 592 87 Xiaofan Yu 592 592 1 592 89 Sarah Minarik 589 589 1 589 90 Juna Kamijimi 565 565 1 565 (M21) 90 Julie van Hoff 325 240 565 2 565 (M21) 92 Jamie Maclean 530 530 1 530 93 Dan Greene 506 506 1 506 94 Phillip Hoare 503 503 1 503 95 Grant Cutler 489 489 1 489 96 Garrett Nussbaumer 484 484 1 484 96 Sarah Williams 484 484 1 484 98 Madison Kiss 477 477 1 477 99 Michael Robinson 474 474 1 474 (M21) 99 Vin Noah 474 474 1 474 101 Denis Kourakin 461 461 1 461 101 Deyu Fu 461 461 1 461 101 Steve Keg 461 461 1 461 (M21) 104 Rory Maclean 460 460 1 460 105 John Beard 458 458 1 458 106 Chunjung Tai 457 457 1 457 (M21) 107 Jiri Zajic 455 455 1 455 (M21) 108 Alan Glendinning 451 451 1 451 109 Chun Wu 443 443 1 443 (M21) 110 Jay Hann 440 440 1 440 111 John Richardson 433 433 1 433 112 Laurel Larsen 420 420 1 420 113 Trevor Pering 389 389 1 389 114 Seth Benkle 386 386 1 386 (M21) 115 Gordon Bloom 385 385 1 385 116 Noah Vin 384 384 1 384 (M21) 117 David Moore 367 367 1 367 118 Philippe Rerolle 360 360 1 360 (M21) 119 Alexander van Hoff 352 352 1 352 (M21) 120 Steve Beuerman 336 336 1 336 121 Raymond Spore 327 327 1 327 122 Gary Carpenter 293 293 1 293 123 Stephen Ou 290 290 1 290 (M21) 124 Diyang Tang 272 272 1 272 (M21) 125 Joaquin Fornallez 266 266 1 266 (M21) 126 Andrew Clark 253 253 1 253 (M21) 127 Hani Juha 247 247 1 247 (M21) 128 Adrian Gonzales 238 238 1 238 (M21) 129 James Carpenter 210 210 1 210 (M21) 130 Scott Aster ED 0 0 0 130 Troy Kaji ED 0 0 0