Not often you see more than half the field disqualified :)

http://www.vuggles.plus.com/results/EV0308.htm

What’s the story from Slindon??

Many thanks to Mike for a very entertaining evening event.  As can be seen from the results the micro O section with no control codes and dummy controls caught many people out!  It was necessary at 16 to read the control descriptions as to which side of the spur you wanted to punch. I managed that but found switching scales during the course to be tricky. 

Excellent use of a small but interesting area.

Also more world records fall on the run in?  90 metres in 7 seconds for Chris!  Many thanks to Mike for a great evening event.

I was caught out by 16 - up until then I hadn’t seen any dummy controls and wondered whether it was an empty threat. Navigated cleanly to the spur, saw a control and punched. Failed to see the other one 10m away and didn’t check the descriptions. Having said that I did check my descriptions for control 7 which ended up costing me 30s or so. Control was described as being between two thickets, running along the track I saw what I thought were the two thickets but I had a clear view of the gap between them and there was no control there. Only when I realised that I had overshot did I return to those thickets and found the control embedded in the southernmost one.

A most excellent evening event arranged by Mike G.
Testing many skills and forcing solid technique.
The Micr-O section did not forgive mistakes - get one wrong and you’re DSQ!
Just what I needed to force me to assimilate the full detail of the control descriptions (a common error for me). All the recent fine detail sprint events have been good exercise for that too.

I too found that transferring between the main 1:5000 and the 1:2500 inset of the Micr-O was tricky, but took it all in the spirit of trying to work round brain overload whilst out on the course.

The very fine evening weather that we all enjoyed reinforced the earlier decision to postpone the event from a very wet evening a few weeks earlier.

Many thanks again Mike.
I now hope that I can put all the good stuff that I’ve had trained into me into use over the forthcoming Summer events (for me: French 6 Days; and the White Rose Weekend).

I messed up both Number 16 and 3. I didn’t see the other control at 16, so punched the dummy one, and at 3 I went to 17.  Changing between the different map scales was very tricky, and I overshot 6 as a result. I thought it was a fantastic event, and it made me realize how important it is to navigate straight up to the control and check control descriptions, rather than running in the right direction and hoping the find the right control.