Deeside Summer Evening Event Programme and Summer League
All summer evening events offer courses that are suitable for novices and experienced orienteers. Registration will be from 17:30, with start times from 18:00 to 19:15 unless otherwise stated. Fees for 2009 are £4.00 for seniors (£4.50 if not a member of an orienteering club) and £1.50 for juniors.
For dates and venues of all DEE events, see the full DEE events list
| Course | Technical difficulty |
Typical length km | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow | easy | 1.5 - 2.5 | suitable for beginners |
| Orange | medium | 2.5 - 3.5 | suitable for adult beginners |
| Light Green | moderate | 2.5 - 3.5 | |
| Green | difficult | 3.5 - 5.0 | |
| Blue | difficult | 5.0 - 7.5 | may be replaced by a 'long technical' course where the terrain is not suitable for a full blue course |
Our Summer League is based on the results achieved by DEE Club Members at the Summer Evening Events.
The Summer League rules are used to calculate the league results.
Summer League Rules
For the benefit of new DEE Members, and as a reminder to the old hands, here are the Summer League Rules:
The Deeside Summer League (or Galoppen as it used to be called) is open to all members of Deeside Orienteering Club, including members of affiliated groups such as schools.
The Summer League this year is based on the results of the Summer Evening events organised by DEE and MDOC. The Summer Evening events are detailed in the Summer League Leaflet as well as on the Club Events Page.
At MDOC's Brereton Heath event only classes Yellow, Orange and Light Green will count towards the Summer League.
Points are awarded as follows:
- The fastest DEE Member in each class is awarded 100 points.
- Other DEE Members in each class are awarded points based on the difference between their time and that of the winner in their class. Competitors are awarded one point less than the class winner for every 30 seconds (or part thereof) that they are behind the class winner.
A competitor must score points in at least three events to be included in the final results.
The six best results of each competitor are used to calculate their points total at the end of the season.
Only people running as individuals can enter the Summer League; groups running together do not count.
The following classes are available, subject to sufficient competitors. The Galoppenmeister claims the right to combine or eliminate classes at the end of the season if there are too few competitors to make separate classes worthwhile.
The Women's Summer League Classes Trophy Course Class(es) SENIOR LADIES A BLUE Open VETERAN LADIES B GREEN W40+ SENIOR LADIES B GREEN W20, W21, W35 JUNIOR LADIES B GREEN W18- SENIOR LADIES C LIGHT GREEN W20+ JUNIOR LADIES C LIGHT GREEN W18- JUNIOR LADIES D ORANGE W16- JUNIOR LADIES E YELLOW W14- The Men's Summer League Classes Trophy Course Class(es) VETERAN MEN A BLUE M45+ SENIOR MEN A BLUE M20 to M40 JUNIOR MEN A BLUE M18- VETERAN MEN B GREEN M45+ SENIOR MEN B GREEN M20 to M40 JUNIOR MEN B GREEN M18- SENIOR MEN C LIGHT GREEN M20+ JUNIOR MEN C LIGHT GREEN M18- JUNIOR MEN D ORANGE M16- JUNIOR MEN E YELLOW M14- To be sure that your results are included in the Summer League, you MUST ensure that you put your AGE and SEX class and your Club (i.e. DEE or affiliated school) on your entry form. The Galoppenmeister is not going to sift through the Deeside membership list trying to identify names he does not recognise!
The winner of each class will be presented with a small trophy at a time to be decided.
Peter Hills, Galoppenmeister.
