St Ives - Galoppen Wed, 9 September 2009
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Map Memory Score


Pos  Name                        Memory     Map     Total   Penalty   Final Score
                                                    
1    John Marshall                  630     110     740                   740
2    Dil Wetherill                  120     480     600                   600
3    Peter Haynes                   300     270     570                   570
4    Ben Holland                    360     220     580       30          550
5    Andrew Stimson                 420     110     530                   530
6    Matthew Haynes                 270     220     490                   490
7    Helen Bickle                   210     230     440                   440
8    Bruce Marshall                 270     170     440       10          430
9    Maurice Hemingway                      420     420                   420
10   Tom Hemingway                          360     360                   360
11   Madeleine Humphreys                    350     350                   350
12=  Maria Marshall                         330     330                   330
12=  Jean Sinclair *                120     210     330                   330
12=  James Haynes                           340     340       10          330
15   Ian Lawson                      30     260     290                   290
16   Pam and Catherine Hemingway            270     270                   270
17   Hazel Bickle                           240     240                   240
18   Ursula Oxburgh                         220     220                   220

* Jean was only out for 34 minutes of the 45 allowed

Organiser's Comments

Despite our not getting the planned access to the bridge chapel, fine weather allowed the event to go ahead on the historic St Ives bridge. Competitors had the choice of when to swap from map memory (30 points per control) to map (10 points per control). The results show some very different strategies. John's memory eventually defeated Dil's getting all but 10 of the 62(!) controls. Considering that included writing down the answer, then Dils' exceeding 1 control per minute was impressive, but not enough to win. Hopefully this event provided useful practice at fast and furious urban-O for those who went on to the London City Race at the weekend, and a fitting end to the 2009 Galoppen season.

Peter Duthie