Comments on: Vote for Course of the Year 2012 now!

By: tom

tom — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 09:17:55 +0000

“A lot of good, old long distance courses in there.”

I hope IOF is watching :)

By: Jan Kocbach

Jan Kocbach — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 09:01:59 +0000

@Tom: Looking at the votes coming in, you haven’t got much to fear:) A lot of good, old long distance courses in there.

I think “The course of the Year” is a good place to highlight that orienteering is really FUN!

By: tom

tom — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 08:58:46 +0000

I somehow agree with Sim. Lately there is a lot of training courses with fantasy drawings around (palm islands, sponge bobs and whatever). These are pretty cool to look at and I fear that people are biased voting for great fantasy ocad drawings instead of a good course.

So why then not have 2 categories.
lets say:
1) competition course of the year (state of the art courses)
and 2) creative course of the year (freestyle class where everything is allowed)

By: Jan Kocbach

Jan Kocbach — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:12:49 +0000

If 2000 people vote for a training for 5 persons as the course they find the best course in 2012, I guess it is OK that it can be “The course of the year”. But in order to convince that many people that this is really the best course of the year – the course would have to be very innovative…

I think that letting people suggest the courses is fine. The question is of course if I should have nominated all the suggestions for the voting process. I wanted to reduce from 80 to around 50, but it was not easy doing the selections.

If the best courses are used for training only – maybe they will eventually find their ways to competitons? At least local competitions – but maybe not WOC level …?