2010/01/01 DestructO Results & Scramble Meeting New Years Day

The DestructO event and meeting were quite successful.

The results are below, and you can see when each person began to pick up controls both by looking for the same control punched twice and looking at the times because pickup began at 4:10 pm.

We met at 2:30 at Lake Johnson Avent Ferry Rd South of the bridge.  We divided the map into three sections, 5 points for controls in one section, 10 in another, and 15 for the far out section.  Everyone took 2 controls of their choice.  The controls numbered in the 50’s were for the 5 point section, the 60’s for the 10 point section, and the 70’s were worth 15 points.  Donald and Patrick took their bikes to set the far out controls.

When everyone got back we each marked the controls we set on everyone else’s  map.  When everyone had all the controls on their map we had a mass start.  We had 30 minutes of regular score course to punch as many controls as possible, but instead of returning to the start each person found a spot where they thought they could collect as many controls as possible in the 15 minutes they had to return to the start.  So when you look at the results, starting at 4:20pm the controls are being collected.

The points score in this way:  the 30 minute score is regular points, the 15 minute DestructO you get twice the normal point value, and every minute overtime you loose 10 points.

Amazingly enough we were right on schedule, and ordered the pizzas and had them at the house for the dinner at 5:00.  Then at 6:00 we started the meeting and went through the outline for the Scramble and discussed all the issues that we could think of, and got people to head up all the main teams.