Comments on: JWOC Sprint: Maps and Results

By: B

Sat, 06 Jul 2013 07:49:39 +0000

If the Bulletin is correct and it really is not possible to pass the bridge over the sides, then there will never be a need for a discussion if it is forbidden to do the impossible?
I find the information in the Bulletin to be a clarification to the runners when deciding rout-choices, “do not expect to be able to go this way” rather than” it is forbidden to go this way”. So it probably is not forbidden, but that is not necessary since it is not possible? But I agree that information could have been even better, since they start with regretting that bridges are not marked as forbidden to pass objects, and that indicate that they would have liked it to be so, but they are not forbidden?
If someone does the impossible, that is ok ;-)

By: hatifnatter

hatifnatter — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 22:59:05 +0000

Well done by organizers by noticing it (and I think it is forgivable for me as a stupid spectator to miss this). Nevertheless, what is written is ”
There are bridges in the terrain. A bridge (512.1) is
unfortunately not defined by ISSOM as a “forbidden
to cross” object. However runners must note that all
bridges in the terrain cannot be climbed from the sides”. This is very ambiguous: (1) it does not say anything about disqualification (2) it does not say anything about jumping down. Well, there are little pictures below this statement, which, however, do not clarify much, because states only “not possible” without any circumstances of disproving this statement.
So, still, there is no document which says that jumping down a bridge leads to disqualification.

By: Czech

Czech — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 19:06:32 +0000

forbidden in page 21, Bulletin 4

By: hatifnatter

hatifnatter — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 17:54:50 +0000

There is no any reason for such DSQ, because crossing a bridge (in any direction) is not forbidden by any document.