The Big Blackfoot Score ‘O’

Organizer: Geraint Edmunds (Event Director)

Don't miss this ultimate O challenge:

Options: Choose 1 hour, 3 hour or 6 hour time limit.

Location: Central Staging Area, Blackfoot Provincial Recreation Area

Drive 3km north from the intersection of Range Road 195 and Township 515A to the central staging area
Better than average out houses next to the shelter.

Format:
Some controls with SPORTident and flags, close enough to each other for the all participants to get a good score. Many of them in the grazing fields.
Also lots more ‘virtual’ controls which can be scored by using the MapRun6 app. These are further apart and further away from the start/finish than the real controls. There are several controls in the wooded areas.
For both kinds, points are won by finding controls and lost by being over the chosen time limit.

Scoring: your time starts when you punch the SPORTident start unit and finishes when you punch in at the SPORTident finish unit. The officials will calculate and deduct points, if necessary, of 10 points for each minute you are over time. (NO bonus for being back early).
Points for visiting the controls, whether real or virtual, are the usual standard:
50 points for any control numbered in the 50 series e.g. # 57 gets you 50 points, so does #51
80 points for any of the 80 series e.g. #88 gets you 80 points, so does #83.
and so on.
You will be able to tell from the map whether a control is real or virtual.
Real controls need to be ‘punched’ but will not get a MapRun beep. Virtual controls will beep and maybe have a ribbon, but do not have an SI unit.

You can do this on your own or in a small group (partner or small family group)
You may visit the controls in any order, including changing back and forth between real and virtual. One specific virtual control will start the app for the virtual controls.

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