Meet Director:Stanimir P
Course Setter: Stanimir P
Schedule:
9:30 a.m. |
Checkin |
10 a.m. |
Mass start |
11:30 p.m. |
Courses close |
(Maximum time on course: 1.5 hours)
Cost: (per individual or team)
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Event Day
Registration |
Online
Pre-Registration |
Participant |
$10 |
$7 |
additional maps |
$3 |
rental compass |
$1 |
(We suggest a maximum of four people per group.)
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On-line registration is now closed. Please pay on-site..
Details:
We'll be offering a standard point-to-point course (intermediate) and
a Madnaess course (advanced). We will be starting from the parking lot in front of the Grove 5 shelter. Enter off of Quentin Road.
Madnaess Details
The Madnaess format is very different from traditional orienteering
as the race is a mass start. The race is broken into three parts.
The first is a set of common controls where the runners go head
to head. They then enter the Madnaess box which features 7-8 controls.
The intent of this box is to equalize the race for all levels of
skill and as such each runner gets to skip a certain amount the
controls based on their age and sex. Elite racers will have to cover
all of them while younger or older runners will do less. Coming
out of the box they then cover a number of common controls once
again and if planned out properly most of the runners should finish
very close to one another.
For intermediate orienteering, we will have seperate intermediate course (yellow/orange).
The competition will go ahead through rain or snow (sleet, hail,
etc. You get the picture).
The Winter Madnaess Rules
- All events will have a mass start at 10:00 on the event day.
You may start without penalty up to 20 minutes after the official
start time. After that, your start time may be adjusted back to
20 minutes.
- The time limit is 90 minutes--all controls will be picked up
after this time.
- At each event, every participant must sign an event waiver
prior to the start, at registration time.
- Pre-marked maps are guaranteed to all who pre-register.
- Map cases may be purchased at pre-registration or on-site for
$1.
- To ensure competitiveness for all participants, each event will
use a handicap system called The Madnaess Box. Using their creativity,
course setters will attempt to choreograph that elusive mass finish.
The Madnaess Box
Each race will feature the infamous Madnaess Box, which consists
of a set of controls labeled with letters (A,B,C, etc) somewhere
on the course. Participants may attack the controls in the box in
any order. Additionally, participants may drop controls equal to
their handicap point total. Handicap points are awarded as follows:
Category |
Handicap |
Female |
add 2 |
12 or younger |
4 |
65 or older |
4 |
14 or younger |
3 |
55 or older |
3 |
16 or younger |
2 |
45 or older |
2 |
19 or younger |
1 |
35 or older |
1 |
Examples:
- A 46-year-old female may drop 4 controls in the box.
- A 19-year-old male may drop 1 control in the box.
- A 28-year-old male must visit all the controls in the box.
Directions:
Take Route 53 north of I-90 for 6 miles. Exit on Dundee Road, turn
left, and go west 3 miles to Quentin Road. Turn right and go north
0.5 mile. Turn left into the forest preserve. Turn right at the
first intersection and follow the road all the way to shelter #5.
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