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How not to plan a course

Todays national event at Kfar HaHoresh had great terrain, beautiful weather, and a course which I would classify as "boring". The lengths of all the legs were similar, most route choices were trivial, and some controls were absurdly simple. As a result, the percentages of mistakes for participants, as calculated…
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in our LapCombat system (thanks to Noam Ravid), were very low.I had an almost perfect race, and I was thrashed by Omer, who is simply faster than I am. The only way for me to beat him is to have lots of technical orienteering which will slow him down, and there was none of that today - he was faster to every control but one.Below is an example of the course planning. To control 8 you have to drop down 25m to an easy feature in an open area, and then go straight back up to an even easier one…

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