PNWOF Day 8: GrizO NRE University of Montana Sprint

This is Day 8 of the Pacific Northwest Orienteering Festival. Day 8 is hosted by Grizzly Orienteering at the University of Montana campus.

This will be a Sprint Distance National Ranking Event.

Mapper: Jon Campbell

Course Setter: Siri Christopherson

Map scale: 1:4,000.

This is a typical US university campus sprint map, with irregularly shaped buildings and passageways creating challenging route choice options. Runnability is very high throughout. Previous maps can be found here.

Full map and course notes are here.

 NEW: Knockout Sprint added! 

In addition to the regularly scheduled Sprint NRE on Sunday, June 30, we will also offer a knock-out sprint tournament the same day on the U of M campus, *free of charge* to anyone entered for the sprint. Siri Christopherson is the course setter for the knock-out sprint, as well as the NRE. When you register, you will have the opportunity to opt in or out of the knockout sprint.

The sprint NRE will be used to seed the heats for the knockout tournament. Top 36 men and top 36 women will advance to the heats. Anyone who doesn’t advance can run in a consolation heat.

For each of the two brackets (men’s and women’s), there will be six quarterfinal heats, with the top 3 in each heat advancing to the semifinals.

The 18 semifinalists in each bracket will be placed into 3 heats each, with the top 2 from each heat advancing to the final.

Approximate timeline:

• 9am-11am: NRE starts
• 11:30am: NRE awards
• 12:00pm: Knockout sprint heat selection
• 12:30pm: Quarterfinals
• 1:30pm: Consolation
• 2:15pm: Semifinals
• 3:00pm: Finals
• 3:30pm: Awards

We think this will be a fun, spectator friendly event to finish off the Festival and prepare folks for the first-ever knock-out sprint at the North American Championships later this summer.

We apologize for the late notice and any already-made travel plans that may be affected, as this has only materialized over the last several days. I will note that our contract with Lubrecht runs through Monday morning, July 1, so if folks choose to fly out Monday, they can keep staying at Lubrecht.

The planned schedule for the entire festival is as follows:

June 22 - COC / Fisk NRE / dinner

June 23 - COC / Fisk NRE

June 24 - EWOC / Riverside State Park

June 25 - EWOC / Holmberg Conservation Area

June 26 - off

June 27 - GrizO / Larry Creek NRE / Starts between 1-3pm / Classic distance

June 28 - GrizO / Soft Rock NRE / Starts between 11am-1pm / Middle distance

June 29 - GrizO / Lubrecht NRE / Starts between 10am-1pm / Long distance / dinner

June 30 - GrizO / U of M NRE / Starts between 9am-11am / Sprint distance