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Did you check out all the great courses nominated for “Course of the Year 2023″? Monday is the last chance to vote – here you can check out which courses are in the Top 12 so far.  Still not delivered your vote? Do so here: Vote for Course of the Year 2023 ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is leg 6 in men’s course from the Norwegian Championships long distance. The leg is not very long, but there is still an interesting route choice puzzle for you here. Here is the terrain description from the invitation: The terrain has partly good runnability ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is a very long leg from the women’s course in the Swedish Championships Long distance. Thanks to Björn Johansson for the tip! The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how you ...

What was the best orienteering course of 2023? Set up your personal Top 5 List from the nominated maps – and win prizes from our sponsors! The nominated maps have been chosen based on submissions from the WorldofO.com readers and some of the world’s top orienteers. Now YOU can choose “The Course ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is a very interesting long leg from the Czech Championships Long distance – a course that came to my attention after being nominated for Course of the Year 2023. The course has several interesting legs where I struggled to find a solution I was really ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is another leg from the Japanese Championships Long distance – you can take a look at yesterday’s leg here to learn more about this terrain. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is an exotic one for many – we travel to Japan for a routechoice leg from the Japanese Long distance orienteering championships. This course was suggested for the “Course of the Year 2023″ – head over and add your nominations for “Course of ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is an intriguing leg from the men’s course in the Junior World Orienteering Championships Long distance in 2023. Lots of contours and many possible choices – what would you choose?  The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is leg 6 in a shortened Long Distance organized in Tenerife in early January. Thanks to Alvar Palmén for the tip and to Thierry Gueorgiou for help with the analysis. The course is from a training camp at Tenerife with the national teams of Norway and Finland ...

[See all nominations here] Monday December 18th is the last chance to add suggestions to “Course of the Year 2023″. We already got 47 nominations in the comments to the intro article  – most of these are high quality courses which will be part of the voting in “Course of the Year 2023″. Based on ...