Fantasy World Cup: A Lot Of Final Changes!
Helena Janssons disqualification due to running into a forbidden area at the Sprint race in the World Cup Final cost the leading team of manager Anders Skarholt and the Scary Team a lot of World Cup points – but so did it for a majority of the other top teams – including manager Kristoffer Fiane Pedersen and the Bushmen Team who has been fighting with Skarholt for the overall victory all the way. Thus Janssons disqualification did not have any impact on the overall results in the World of O Fantasy World Cup.
[Note! Results are still unofficial as they are not fully checked - please report any errors to jan@kocbach.net]
In the end the Bushmen Team proved to be the strongest: The Scary Team lost valuable points to the Bushmen team in both of the last competitions – and thus the Bushmen Team took the victory with a total of 5224.50 points ahead of the Dæhlie Team with 5137.20 points and the Scary Team with 5135.50 points.
Congratulations to the Bushmen Team for taking the victory in the first WoO Fantasy World Cup!
Overall results Fantasy World Cup
The overall results in the Fantasy World Cup is given in the following table. Full results – including results for each race and team runners for the teams in each race – are given here.
| Place | Team name | Manager | Points so far | E-mail address |
| 1. | Bushmen | Kristoffer Fiane Pedersen | 5224.50 points | krist_o_ffer@—–.— |
| 2. | dæhli | Magne Dæhli | 5137.20 points | magne.dahli@—–.— |
| 3. | Scary | Anders Skarholt | 5135.50 points | 21014@—–.— |
| 4. | Die Förschtar fi Sarnthein | Thomas Widmann | 5032.40 points | ueidman@—–.— |
| 5. | stars team | Eran S. | 5020.50 points | eran2segal@—–.— |
| 6. | SamWise | Samuel Vainiomäki | 5015.95 points | samuel.vainiomaki@—–.— |
| 7. | Tutzoooom | Torben Utzon | 4986.30 points | tutzon@—–.— |
| 8. | Karst Stars | Áron Less | 4954.70 points | aron.less@—–.— |
| 9. | Sloths | Pete Huzan | 4947.25 points | peter.huzan@—–.— |
| 10. | Sheffield Steelers | OJ | 4935.75 points | olijohnson@—–.— |
Overall World Cup Results
The Overall World Cup has been covered elsewhere (see World of O frontpage). Final victories went to Daniel Hubmann and Simone Niggli-Luder after impressing races by all of the Swiss Team – and especially Hubmann and Niggli-Luder – in the World Cup Finals.
Maps World Cup Final
- Map World Cup Final Sprint (Routegadget) or Hubmann’s route
- Map World Cup Final Middle (Routegadget) or Øystein Kvaal Østerbø’s route
Rule changes in 2010?
Thanks to all participants for making the Fantasy World Cup a great competition – making it even more interesting to follow the Orienteering World Cup. It has not yet been decided if the Fantasy World Cup will continue in 2010. Please add a comment below if you want the Fantasy World Cup to continue – and especially if you see any rule changes which would make it even more interesting!
Get ready for a new weekend with live GPS tracking and interesting orienteering competitions. For the Finnish Champs Middle distance on Saturday September 19th, there will be 
From 14:20 CET today live GPS tracking is offered from the Norwegian Champs Middle distance (first start is 13:00 CET for the elite). For the Swedish Champs Middle there is live speaker sound with Per Forsberg (start elite from 12:00 CET) and live results. 
