[ARDF] Host Club sought for 2005 USA ARDF champs

[Jay Hennigan]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Matthew Robbins wrote:

> This is just a few disjointed ideas, quickly thrown together.
>
> I went to last year's R2 Champs website, and got the list of
> competitors.  Pasted it into Excel, then sorted by State.  I added Bob
> and Dick, and changed the names of the states to more accurately
> reflect geographic positions. So "Kentucky" became Cincinnati, and
> Ohio was split between Cincy and Cleveland.  I added at least one
> competitor I'm aware of, and I tried to split California into Northern
> and Southern (by guessing who lived where).  I then sorted by "state"
> and got this:

[Snippage]

> Deleting the states that haven't hosted a big event (and Hungary) gives:
> (oh, I left Oregon in, too.)
>
> Alabama
> Cleveland
> Colorado
> Illinois
> Indiana
> Indiana
> Indiana
> Indiana
> Indiana
> Massachusetts
> Montana
> Montana
> NoCal
> North Carolina
> North Carolina
> North Carolina
> Oregon
> Oregon
> Texas
> Texas
> Virginia
>
>
> Of this list, every duplication is a family (I think) except Indiana.

Indiana is, IMHO, really part of the Cincinnati/Kentucky locale.  In fact
the 80 meter event venue of the 2003 event was in Indiana.

> Unless a club has a lot of money to have a map made, I think it's
> reasonable to assume a map needs to be already available.  (Updates,
> if needed, are usually much cheaper than a new map.)  So the next step
> should be to look at a list of Orienteering Clubs and try to match
> that list up with a group of people interested in ARDF.

Agreed.  There is often a common interest.

> I'd think that the groups who have club gear like transmitters and
> controllers could loan gear to any group who needed it, so that could
> further reduce the monetary outlay to put on these championships.
> Hopefully, any necessary gear could be paid for out of the event
> income.
>
> Another thought would be to try to piggyback the championships onto a
> large orienteering event, like the Convention or possibly the 1000
> Days (Wyoming).  Even a standard A-Meet might work.  (I realize that
> I'm being presumptuous.  A lot of details would have to be worked
> out.)  If the location chosen didn't have any interested ARDF
> organizers nearby, and if two maps were to-be-used for the event, a
> different course setter could be chosen for each day.  That way, for
> example, the 2m course setter(s) could compete on the 80m day.
>
> As a first cut, here's my guess as to the availability of O'Maps to
> the list above:
>
> Y Alabama (Don't know club name...)
> Y Cleveland (NEOOC)
> Y Colorado  (RMOC)
> Y Illinois  (Chicago Area OC?)
> Y Indiana  (Indiana Crossroads OC?)
> Y Massachusetts (Don't know club names...)
> Don't know Montana (?)
> Y NoCal (BAOC)
> Don't know North Carolina (This has to be yes, right?)
> Y Oregon (Don't know which cities have maps)
> Y Texas (Houston OC? Bastrop SP? Others?)
> Y Virginia (QOC.  Others?)
>
> I was expecting that to have some No's in it.  Hmmm.
>
> Another thought would be to look at cities with lots of orienteering
> maps (hopefully including some interesting cities to visit for a
> week), and see if anyone can be found to go-to-the-trouble of putting
> on an event there. I went to an A-Meet near New York City last
> November, and St. Louis just updated one of the first really good maps
> I ever ran on, Hawn State Park.
>
> Like I said, it was just a bunch of random thoughts.  I know that
> since I used the 2003 competitor list, I probably missed some
> potential states.  Updating the list would be worthwhile.

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