Thanks to everyone who joined us at the 2010 running of the First Frost Navigational Rally, and made this a very successful event!

The wonderful photo album is here, courtesy of pointandshoot.ca!

Rally Execution:

Nav Rallies are a hugely complex challenge to run, and we had a few snags. Somehow we missed stating the ET in the Novice Odo section. This cause for some early panic, but we quickly decided to change CP 1 to a route check for the novices to make it fair for everyone. Also, we somehow had one copy of an earlier version of the expert notes make it to Dennis which caused some issues for his EOL A ET calculation.

Beyond that, things went very well. We had a few novice teams end up off route and late. That's part of rallying and to be expected from time to time. We've all been there!  A few of the speeds caught people up, with a low CAS on a fast road causing the one expert team to question their last turn. We added only one deliberate trick, that being a subtle change in instruction wording in section A5 "Bad Directions", changing the "From x to y" to "To y from X". This caught several teams, both novice and expert alike. We hoped folks would catch on because the first time we did it would put you down a "No Exit" road.

We were happy to see everything run so well, with most of the teams having a fun day. This event also set the final scores for the 2010 ORRC season, with battles for the season lead still running in both Expert and Novice classes.

The Moore's managed to hold on to their lead, blocking the Leonard's from a tie in the expert season.

 

Brownhill and Corbett made a great showing to take First place in Novice for the event, which gives them a tie for first with Burgess and Ford for the Novice season.

 

Leg A Results

Leg B and Final Results