Comments on: EOC 2025 Knock-Out Sprint: Maps, Results and Analysis

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 02:07:46 +0000

Nothing to do about the lacking of action until the end in the finals without forkings, but in earlier stages they should really copy the ‘lucky loser’-concept from ski sprint, to keep the speed up and maybe also inspire to individual routechoices earlier in the races…

By: Jan Kocbach

Jan Kocbach — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 22:31:23 +0000

“Somewhat lacking” is a classic British understatement:) In my opinion, if you don’t even manage to attract orienteers, you have a problem…

By: Adrian Bailey

Adrian Bailey — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 22:23:27 +0000

From the point of view of an orienteer this event is somewhat lacking, but I understand this event was introduced to attract/entertain a more general audience. I’d be interested to know what non-orienteer viewers made of it.

By: Jan Kocbach

Jan Kocbach — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 09:30:50 +0000

It is interesting to watch in the same way as track athletics is interesting, yes. But there wasn’t really much happening in the semifinals and finals until the very end of some of the heats with regards to taking different route choices. Yes, there were interesting route choice options in there prepared by the course setter, but due to the non-forked nature of the race very few tried out any of those route choices (except those who didn’t have a chance to keep up, who just had to try something).