2022 Summer Series
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Related Event Information
We are happy to announce the return of the BAOC Summer Series. Similar to last time (in 2019), 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. If you choose to "compete", your best four of the six races will count toward your Summer Series Final Ranking.
Each Summer Series event will typically have a Beginner (White) course, a Short intermediate course, and a Long intermediate course. (The "intermediate" courses will usually be about Orange difficulty, or whatever format the map can support.)
As described below, each event will have two "ranking" courses, and there will be two Series competitions for those who choose to run those ranking courses. In addition, there will be at least one alternative courses for those folks not wanting to "compete" (and they can do a "ranking" course without competing). In particular, note that beginners are welcome at all the events. See the webpage for each event for the details for that event.
More details about event locations and specifics will be available over the next few weeks. See the individual event webpages linked below for current information.
We look forward to seeing you out there!
– Your BAOC Event Coordination Team: 
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(April 5, 2022)
The Schedule
The Summer Series will (hopefully) include the following events. Note, however, that the dates and locations are subject to change. (Click on the date to go to an event's announcement page.)
- June 5: Joaquin Miller Park, Oakland (results page, Summer Series event points)
- June 26: Mills College, Oakland (results page, Summer Series: event points, standings)
- July 2: U.C. Berkeley Campus, Berkeley (results page, Summer Series: event points, standings)
- July 23: Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill (results page, Summer Series: event points, standings)
- August 14: Vasona Lake County Park, Los Gatos (results page, Summer Series: event points, standings)
- August 28: Bedwell Bayfront Park, Menlo Park (results page, Summer Series: event points, final standings)
Note to Beginners
BAOC welcomes beginners at events, with (free) "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.
Summer Series Discount Package
This year we are offering a fabulous package deal for BAOC members: all six events for the price of four. The details are here.
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 ISSprOM (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 (or reach over or through).
- A sheet showing all the symbols used on Sprint Orienteering maps is available as this file (1MB/PDF). (Note, however, that there might have been some minor changes to some of those symbols since that file was created.)
- The latest edition of the International Specification for Sprint Orienteering Maps (ISSprOM 2019-2) is in this document (PDF/1.2MB) (the identical file on the IOF website is "huge").
- These related IOF documents are available: ISSprOM - Guidelines For Complex Urban Structures (PDF/2.6MB) and What Has Changed In ISSprOM 2019 (PDF/764KB).
The Series Competition
The BAOC Summer Series will be split into two competitions, a series of Short courses and a series Long courses, both of which will be "handicapped" by age and gender—that is, using the same system we used in 2017–2019. (If we do not have easy access to the information [see below], you will need to send us your birth year and gender, so we can give each athlete a fair representation in the points.)
The six planned Summer Series events (see above) will be set on some of our best "urban" maps—campuses, parks, etc.—which make for better events during the summer. There will, in fact, be effectively two Summer Series—a Short-distance version, and a Long-distance version. We have made this decision acknowledging the diversity of the athletes we have at BAOC events, and hopefully everyone will find a distance they are comfortable with. Both Short and Long will be basically "the most technically challenging courses the map will support". The Short courses will not be "easier", they are simply shorter.
Important Note: Points earned in one Summer Series (e.g., Short) are not valid in the other series (e.g., Long). And each competitor will ultimately be ranked based on the points from their best four of the six events. Thus the intention is that each athlete will choose to compete in either the Short or the Long competition, and (mostly) stick to that length throughout the summer. Of course, everyone is welcome to run any course they wish at each event, but to maximize your chance of a higher overall position, you should try to stick to one length or the other throughout the summer. Furthermore, while you are always welcome to run two (or three!) courses at any event, you will be eligible to earn points only on the first course you run at an event (which means no points if you run a ranking course after the Beginner course).
Note that, in addition to the Ranking-Short course and the Ranking-Long course, each event will have a non-ranking White course, and perhaps a second non-ranking course. Further details for each event will be released closer to the date (i.e., on the webpage for the event).
As in previous years, the Summer Series results are weighted by age and gender, to create something closer to a level playing field for all athletes. The age and gender information will first be taken from past BAOC events where this information was used. Then, the OSUA rankings website (https://rankings.orienteeringusa.org/find.php) will be referenced.
If you are a relative newcomer to BAOC events, and you know you are not listed on that OUSA website, you can help us out by sending your gender and year of birth (please do not send your complete date of birth—we have no interest in that). You can send the information to
. Otherwise we will try to reach you to get the information. If we ultimately fail to determine an athlete's age and gender, they will assumed to be a 21-year-old male. Hence, it is in each athlete's best interest to get us accurate information.
The Series rankings will be released (to the BayONet (https://groups.io/g/BAOC) and on the BAOC website) as quickly as possible after each event, although please allow a few days for the various processing to take place.
As in previous years, credit will be given for Course Setting and Event Directing (so contact us now if you would like to earn some "free" points this way!).
If there are any questions or comments on any of the above, you can contact . However, questions about specific events, locations, etc. are best addressed to the Event Director for each event (i.e., as found on the event webpages that are linked above).
Very best of luck to all competitors, and we look forward to seeing you out there!
– Graham Brew, BAOC Event Coordinator, and the entire BAOC Summer Series Team
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, 2018, and 2019, crafted by François and Dennis.)
The scoring system for the Summer Series will combine all participants into two categories 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 two identified ranking courses, 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". (Amazingly, their ages haven't changed since the first Summer Series in 2017. 😉) 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. (The USATF tables that we are using for reference times [and related documentation] can be found here (http://runscore.com/Alan/AgeGrade.html). We're using the files MaleRoadStd2020.xlsx (https://github.com/AlanLyttonJones/Age-Grade-Tables/raw/master/2020%20Files/MaleRoadStd2020.xlsx) and FemaleRoadStd2020.xlsx (https://github.com/AlanLyttonJones/Age-Grade-Tables/raw/master/2020%20Files/FemaleRoadStd2020.xlsx) in the "2020 Files (https://github.com/AlanLyttonJones/Age-Grade-Tables/tree/master/2020%20Files)" folder. In those files, we're using the "10 km" column on the "AgeStdHMS" tab.)
- F 28:30
- T 29:43
- D 35:45
- Dividing the actual course times by the reference times gives these adjusted performance ratios for the course:
- F 1.60877
- T 1.66573
- D 1.60373
- 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 and multiply by 1000, and you get F with 997 points and T with 963.
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.
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:
- JMP = Joaquin Miller Park; Mills = Mills College; UCB = U.C. Berkeley; DVC = Diablo Valley College; VLP = Vasona Lake County Park; BBP = Bedwell Bayfront Park
- You can click on a column heading below to go to the results page for the event.
"Short Series" Standings After All Events
Pl Name JMP Mills UCB DVC VLP BBP Total Events Best 4 1 Chuck Spalding 1000 913 1000 837 875 4625 5 3788 2 Tapio Karras 1000 822 947 851 3620 4 3620 3 Werner Haag 733 774 923 797 3227 4 3227 4 Jan Cisar 543 865 685 877 2970 4 2970 5 Evan Custer 706 544 589 742 611 3192 5 2648 6 Logan Sternberg 591 652 685 512 2440 4 2440 7 Sarah Williams 500 566 464 642 2172 4 2172 8 Terry Gleason 478 612 480 567 2137 4 2137 9 Yana Konovalenko 602 847 567 2016 3 2016 10 Jeff Lanam 437 418 493 562 520 2430 5 2012 11 Anthony Riley 1000 1000cr 2000 2 2000 11 Dennis Wildfogel 1000 1000 2000 2 2000 13 Jay Hann 478 516 447 434 1875 4 1875 14 Imogen Robinson 370 431 507 366 1674 4 1674 15 Nathan Curtis 601 512 541 1654 3 1654 16 Katy Robinson 425 448 426 351 1650 4 1650 17 Rosemary Johnson 592 431 537 1560 3 1560 18 Johanna Merriss 711 818 1529 2 1529 19 Anna Staats 358 328 461 245 1392 4 1392 20 Olga Kraght 523 611 1134 2 1134 21 Brooke Staats 648 425 1073 2 1073 22 Daniel Ingram 439 488 927 2 927 23 Eric Rosenzweig 811 811 1 811 24 George Minarik 810 810 1 810 25 Rayner Malasaga 441 351 792 2 792 26 Lauren Knight 777 777 1 777 27 Derek Maclean 727 727 1 727 28 Miriam Orrhede 669 669 1 669 29 Sierra Meisel 660 660 1 660 30 Enrico Rantala 658 658 1 658 31 Frank Markowitz 654 654 1 654 32 Kian Gupta 648 648 1 648 32 Nick Corsano 648 648 1 648 34 Stephanie Maclean 641 641 1 641 35 Josef Estrada 296 313 609 2 609 36 Amy Winston 596 596 1 596 37 Nat Jeffries 592 592 1 592 38 Yingfei Wang 571 571 1 571 39 Dan Greene 566 566 1 566 40 Maria Jergus 537 537 1 537 41 Ronald Ward 504 504 1 504 42 James Qian 489 489 1 489 43 Jussi Tahtinen 484 484 1 484 44 Chahal Vikram 480 480 1 480 45 Grant Kirschbaum 477 477 1 477 46 Samuel Barker 470 470 1 470 47 Nancy Lindeman 265 188 453 2 453 48 Ian Millard (M21) 446 446 1 446 48 Lonnie Mead 446 446 1 446 50 Logan Kenison 440 440 1 440 51 Melodie Desmarais 427 427 1 427 52 Gabriel Bruhn 414 414 1 414 53 Marsha Jacobs 411 411 1 411 54 Zach Saltzman 409 409 1 409 55 Ludovic Chubby 405 405 1 405 56 Alex Wells 403 403 1 403 56 Enrique Espinoza-Ayala 403 403 1 403 58 Connor Rogers 401 401 1 401 59 Swaminathan Ramesh 395 395 1 395 60 Nikolay Makhnenko 394 394 1 394 61 Clara Staats 392 392 1 392 62 Jasmine Slater 370 370 1 370 63 Charles Van Tassel 339 339 1 339 64 Joey Wang 338 338 1 338 64 Ruizi Tang 338 338 1 338 66 Osiris Estrada-Ledesma 318 318 1 318 67 Chuyan Zhu 315 315 1 315 68 Travis Navarro 302 302 1 302 69 Rio Segre (M21) 300 300 1 300 70 Zhiqi Ang 292 292 1 292 71 Mark Schneider 288 288 1 288 72 Yael Baruch 281 281 1 281 73 Jenny Zheng 272 272 1 272 73 Ryah Newton 272 272 1 272 75 David Bartz (M21) 243 243 1 243 76 Daniel Baruch 240 240 1 240 77 Henry Hardcastle-Ross 237 237 1 237
"Long Series" Standings After All Events
Pl Name JMP Mills UCB DVC VLP BBP Total Events Best 4 1 François Léonard 828 1000 1000cr 1000 969 4797 5 3969 2 Yurii Konovalenko 1000 970 985 955 989 4899 5 3944 3 Erin Schirm 1000 931 1000 1000 3931 4 3931 4 Carl Hoel 923 849 812 922 941 4447 5 3635 5 Rex Winterbottom 670 889 914cr 881 914 800 5068 6 3598 6 Wayne Staats 873 784 849 857 3363 4 3363 7 Graham Brew 581 822 803 834 877 3917 5 3336 8 Jeff Goodwin 850 775 754 761 3140 4 3140 9 Steve Gregg 702 646 797 798 793 3736 5 3090 10 Mikkel Conradi 822 729 681 748 786 3766 5 3085 11 Ouri Karni 757 784 758 744 3043 4 3043 12 Liubov Pitko 650 763 741 711 2865 4 2865 13 Marie-Josée Parayre 589 866 664 738 2857 4 2857 14 Deron van Hoff 599 769 754 695 2817 4 2817 15 Vicki Woolworth 695cr 664 616 656 695 3326 5 2710 16 Steve Haas 668 602 649 677 677cr 3273 5 2671 17 Taylor Pospisil 579 685 670 685cr 2619 4 2619 18 James Roney 627cr 619 605 597 627 3075 5 2478 19 Drew Taplin 421 580 586 601 588 2776 5 2355 20 Weichun Fong 325 563 570 694 524 2676 5 2351 21 John Richardson 403 598 579 506 566 596 3248 6 2339 22 Chun Wu 387 544 589 555 543 489 3107 6 2231 23 Andrej Masalkov 773 694 738 2205 3 2205 24 Michael Robinson 557 527 540 537 497 2658 5 2161 25 Jason Lee 513 589 504 524 2130 4 2130 26 Billy Bao 505 557 479 511 2052 4 2052 27 Tom de Vre 652cr 652 571 1875 3 1875 28 John Crowther 651 605 571 1827 3 1827 29 Sean Robinson 311 501 490 459 1761 4 1761 30 Briana Steven 823 806 1629 2 1629 31 Daniel Šebo 775 744 1519 2 1519 32 Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill 592 630 1222 2 1222 33 Kyle Navarro 527 608 1135 2 1135 34 Lance Kenison 478 575 1053 2 1053 35 Chris Degen 989 989 1 989 36 Takashi Sugiyama 888 888 1 888 37 Julia Doubson 863 863 1 863 38 Lubomir Šebo 794 794 1 794 39 Stephen Harrison 746 746 1 746 40 Greg Khanlarov 738 738 1 738 40 Roman Roshchin (M21) 738 738 1 738 42 Jonathan Owens 712 712 1 712 43 Martin Jergus 688 688 1 688 44 Suzanne Kosina 656 656 1 656 45 Stephanie Maclean 596 596 1 596 46 Nikolay Makhnenko 592 592 1 592 47 Zach Lyons 578 578 1 578 48 Logan Kenison 572 572 1 572 49 Derek Maclean 568 568 1 568 49 Michael Lyons 568 568 1 568 51 Amy Winston 553 553 1 553 52 Nick Corsano 539 539 1 539 53 Travis Navarro 531 531 1 531 54 Jason Reed 477 477 1 477 55 Kristin Bremm 461 461 1 461 56 Scott Sampson 453 453 1 453 57 Brad Jacobs 444 444 1 444 58 Lingshan Xu 443 443 1 443 59 Samuel Barker 440 440 1 440 60 Alan Glendinning 437 437 1 437 61 Henrique Miranda 426 426 1 426 62 Mattias Mattsson (M21) 412 412 1 412 63 Daniel Vo 405 405 1 405 64 Randy Robinson 396 396 1 396 65 Steven Luibrand 394 394 1 394 66 Jamie Maclean 385 385 1 385 67 Ellen Holbrook 370 370 1 370 68 Julie van Hoff 343 343 1 343 69 Pascal Vin (M21) 339 339 1 339 70 Gabriella Jergus 332 332 1 332 71 Shane White 289 289 1 289 72 Hui Shi (M21) 276 276 1 276 73 Philip Zhu 246 246 1 246 74 Cliff Sorrell (M21) 138 138 1 138