World of O News

Todays Route to Christmas travels to Germany – to the German Championships Ultralong at April 21st! As it is a rainy(?) Saturday today, I have prepared two long legs for you with the help of course setter Bjarne Friedrichs. – It was a great challenge to do the mapping and ...

A real classic for today! Can you guess which country this map is from? The WorldofO Christmas O-Quiz gives you one map sample each day from December 1st until December 24th. You get one point for each day you guess the correct country for the map sample – can you ...

Another day – another map! Nearly 2000 answers have been given in the WoO Christmas O-Quiz already – very impressive! And based on your comments, I think you may have spent in total about 3-400 work hours searching for the correct answers (some have used an hour for an answer ...

Today is your lucky day! Not one, but two(!) very interesting legs from Croatia are on offer in Route to Christmas today. And the legs offer very different orienteering challenges: Although significant parts of the map are extreme karst, the other part is more typical continental terrain, and the course ...

After a very flat map yesterday, I found some contours for you today! Can you guess which country this map is from? The WorldofO Christmas O-Quiz gives you one map sample each day from December 1st until December 24th. You get one point for each day you guess the correct ...

In todays leg in Route to Christmas we are moving south from Scandinavia to Switzerland. The race in question is the first national race on April 9th – and as there was GPS tracking in this race there is a lot of data to analyze. With WOC being run in ...

You can’t go wrong by pulling out the compass and running straight here, can you? But can you guess where in the world this map is from? The WorldofO Christmas O-Quiz gives you one map sample each day from December 1st until December 24th. You get one point for each ...

The fifth day of Route to Christmas 2012 takes us to Sweden again – to a very interesting long leg in a middle distance course. Todays leg is leg number 12 in the H21E course from the Silva League WRE-race at April 15th. PS! I hope to soon get enough ...

The fourth day of Route to Christmas 2012 takes us to France to a very special training. This labyrinth was one of the suggestions for “Course of the Year 2012″ – but was not within the Top 10. The leg in question is leg number two. The rules are simple: ...

Read about the fantastic achievements of the 13 athletes and 3 teams who are nominated for The Orienteering Achievement of 2012. Then post your vote for your favourites, and be part of the drawing for prizes worth nearly 4000 Euros! Teams can now also win the achievement of the year ...