Michael Brandon  Mitre 2003

COMMENTS

Controller's Comments

Organiser's Comments

Planner's Comments

RESULTS: STATEMENT

We apologise for the delay in getting these results finalised. There have been a number of technical issues which have taken a huge amount of time to rectify:

1)       Start

One of the start boxes at the west start rebooted just before the event, which meant that everyone who used this box had to have their start times reset by 9hrs 43 mins 11secs.

2)       Failed units

A further 4 control units failed during the event (and another before the event started!) - 1 of which rebooted and then turned off (#175). Unfortunately we were unable to reconstruct the splits for those people who visited #175 between its reboot and turn off times.

3)       Finish splits

As many people noted, the splits between the last control and the finish were a little on the short side! I have to thank those people who took their own splits and were able to point out that their split between the start and first control was too long. All the start and finish units had been programmed 17sec behind the control units, so we have amended everyone's start and finish actual time to correct this. The overall elapsed times are unaffected, but the 1st and last splits should now be accurate.

4)       Road-crossing (the one we'd planned for!)

Removing a split in OE2003 is surprisingly difficult, as the programme only records the actual time of a punch and not the splits. OE2003 also doesn't allow [recalculated] punch-times to be imported, but it does let you import a recalculated overall time. Thus these results are based on the overall time without the road-crossing split, even though you will still be able to see it. (If you want to check, the overall time is the cumulative time at the finish minus the road crossing split (#185-#184)

My thanks go to those people who helped me with the recalculations. Given the large amount of manual calculations we've had to do to reconstruct the event, it is possible the odd mistake still exists. We have done our best to ensure that these are minimal and that the results are an accurate record of the event.

       Finally thank you for you patience and understanding in this matter

Helen Pearce, Planner

[ Last Updated: 09/03/2004 ]