Many orienteers will have really enjoyed the live GPS of that middle race in Porvoo and so have no problem with the overall mostly reflecting that, rather than the two televised sprints. I think it may also be a better guide than the sprints to speed in the final, except for following (which is a big “except”.)

I suppose an alternative would be to base the starts on say 15secs x positions in the sprints (max 31 as that was the qualification cut, and it’s a bit messy counting the QF and SF knockout but you might rank by time.) That would allow Matthias Kyburz, Daniel Hubmann and Matthias Merz to start first spread over a minute, with Matthias Müller and Scott Fraser a minute behind, and Fabian Hertner and Øystein Kvaal Østerbø a further two and a half minutes back. Olav Lundanes, with Andrey Khramov and Johan Runesson to keep him company would be 10 minutes back, and Pasi Ikonen even later. I think I prefer what we have.

One change might be to make the more significant of the early stages number 2; building up to the final.