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Welcome to Performance Corner! This is the section where we highlight performances by our members at relevant events. The primary information source is our own club Personal Performance System, where we compare individual performances at certain nominated Performance Events against current Ranking Points. This simple system enables us to highlight strong performances across all ages and abilities. In addition, we provide notice and information of club performances at major events such as BOC, JK and multi-day events at home and abroad.

Details of our club Personal Performance System can be found here.

We provide notice of event performances by email to those members who join our specific mailing list for these items. If you would like to be included on our reviews of events, please email and keep in touch with how you and your colleagues are performing!.

We also keep historical performance reports for previous seasons. Click here to go to the performance history.

PPS Scores for Event 3: CS Cup TVOC 19/02/12

Well, that was the CompassSport Cup that was, everyone, over for another year. We had 28 starters, scored almost as well as we could, but were well behind the major clubs with larger turnouts. At least we don’t have to traipse all the way to the Borders in September. Perhaps we should focus on 2014, when the CS Final will apparently be held in the SCOA region!

Well done to all those who performed really well on the day. The HOT Rod awards for this event go to:

Hot ROD Awards	Seniors	Improvers
GOLD Award	Andrew Southwood 104.2%	Robert Lattimore 127.1%
SILVER Award	Janet Gibson 103.7%	Chris Speed 116.8%
BRONZE Award	Gill Godbold 101.4%	-

For the first time, we have Cat A runners gaining the Gold and Silver Awards, so it looks like the revised scoring system is helping to create more balanced competition. Both Andrew and Janet had great runs to score so well at this high quality event. Robert Lattimore continues to improve quickly, as teenagers seem to do each year; I hope he keeps up this excellent progress. A special Mention in Despatches goes to those who topped the magic 100% mark: David Lattimore, Doug Greenwood, Andy Strakova and Kingsley Starling (almost!).

This event was also the first round of our Spring Performance Cup. With 28 starters, the top 14 finishers now go through to the semi-final next week at the SCOA Championships, hosted by SARUM. Those who qualified today have their PPS scores shown in italics.

Today we had our first mover from Starters to Improvers: Chris Speed had three previous qualifying RP runs, so has moved up. Stephen Beal and Andy Parry have now recorded three qualifying scores, so move up to Improvers from their next PSS event, and Simon Moore, who did not run today, has also moved into Improvers. Good luck to them all in the ‘Big League’!

I attach the PPS workbook showing today’s results in one sheet, and the overall Spring Season standings in a second sheet. I hope we see you all at the SCOA Championships at Hamptworth next Sunday.

Attachment	Size
BKO PE3 Spring 2012.xls	134.5 KB

PPS Scores for Event 2: BKO 29/01/12

Everyone, it was a very impressive day’s orienteering today, topped with results and Routegadget posted by 6 pm, and Ranking Points available on the BO website by early evening, so well done to all the organising team. This has forced me to move fast to calculate the PPS scores, made more complex by the many new BKO member runners on the day. We had 55 ranking scorers overall, our largest ever total, including five who had no previous ranking scores at all. This was a great turnout.

PPS Scores for Event 1: HH & NWO 22/01/12

The results of our Spring season's first PPS day are provided here. I’ve made a retrospective decision to include results from the NWO West Woods event as well as the HH results. Firstly, this gives more results for the overall day, and secondly it tests out one idea I wanted to try, of having multiple counting events on one day. Thus last Sunday has now become a ‘Performance Day’. I’ll bet that any low scorers now wish they’d gone to the other event!

PPS Scoring Modifications for Spring 2012

Hi everybody. I have been reviewing the PPS scoring system following last season’s successful trial, and I am making two modifications and adding one further facility. I attach a rather lengthy document giving more background to the changes, but the main points are given below.

Performance Event 6: SOC 11/12/11: PPS Scores

Hi again everybody. After last Sunday’s SOC event, the last Performance Event of our Autumn season, I have only now been able to calculate the PPS scores, as SOC were unusually slow in forwarding the results to the BO Ranking System. However, I now have the calculations. We had a very small turnout of only 11 members, and the whole event seemed much smaller than most SOC events. I suspect most people were put off by an unfavourable weather forecast, but it did in fact stay dry most of the morning.

Performance Event 5: BADO Regional Event 20/11/11: PPS Scores

PPS scores for the Pamber event on Sunday are now available. We had a very large turnout of more than 50 members at the event, with several juniors, which was excellent, presumably with many turning out in the hope of gaining a good performance in our own Club Championship event. While there were some good results, we also saw quite a large number of retirals, which was a disappointment. The forest was not particularly technical, with plenty of catching features, but the map did contain a great deal of detail, and it was easy to become confused. Many controls in depressions were hung very low, making it difficult to spot the kite from even 10m away.

Performance Event 4: SOC Regional 06/11/11: PPS Scores

The November Classic on Sunday was our fourth Performance Event, and what a great event it was. With bright sunshine, a beautiful runnable beech forest with few major paths, and genuine long course planning, it was about as good as it gets in the South of England. The club had 28 runners on the day, with a further 9 who had entered but were unable to compete. There was a very large turnout at the event, approaching 900 competitors in total, with a full 180 on the Blue course.

Performance Event 3: TVOC 22/10/11: PPS Scores

The club had a strong presence at the TVOC event on Sunday. We had 35 senior (age 16+) members competing, plus 2 juniors on White and 3 on Yellow, which was a great turnout. Was the thought of gaining a PPS score too tempting to miss?! It looks like ranking points were harder to get this time than at the Hawley event. Our more regular competitors were not so close to their average on this occasion, and it’s the improvers amongst our newer members who have reached the podium.

UK Masters Cup: 4th for Janet, 5th for Richard, 8th for Martin

The 2011 Masters Cup competition reached its conclusion with the Cambridge City Race on 22^nd October. Janet Gibson gained an excellent 4^th in W70 overall, Richard Rae 5^th in M65, and Martin Wilson 8^th in M60. Well done to these regular competitors for completing this marathon competition of 16 events over the past ten months, with the best eight scores to count. After the event, we caught up with our heroes and asked their views on this new competition:

Performance Event 2: BKO Regional 25/09/11: PPS Scores

PPS scores for our event at Hawley on Sunday are now available. They provide some interesting reading. We had 31 senior club members who ran at the event. Of these, 21 obtained a PPS score as they already had three counting ranking point scores, which is our minimal qualification. Another eight members ran and obtained RPs, but had less than the required minimum number of previous scores to count. For this latter group, their RPs and the count of their previous runs are in the spreadsheet. I hope these newer and more occasional runners will come again to future events and will soon be integrated within PPS.

Performance Event 1: SOC Regional 11/09/11: PPS Scores

Hello again, everyone, and welcome to the new O season. You will have seen in the recent Newsletter that we have now formalised the Rankings Performance System we trialled during the spring, and it has now become the BKO Personal Performance System. The principle remains as before, to encourage visibility of good performances whatever your standard, and hopefully encourage us all to compete at more events.

Personal Performance System Trial: Spring 2011

BKO has been trialling a new Personal Performance System at selected events throughout 2011 Spring to compare relative performances of club members aganst their BO Ranking Points. The results of the trial are available at http://www.bko.org.uk/performance/2011/09/26/pps-trial-spring-2011-results.