Raw Score Results (V missing from these results as control wasn’t working)
Overall Results with points for V added back in plus HHH bonuses
Many thanks to those who braved this morning’s horrible rain and mud-fest to tackle this year’s Scrabble-themed HHH challenge. From a planner’s point of view it was fun to watch you all crossing and re-crossing the car park and trying to second guess your strategies, although in Oli’s case we knew why he kept reappearing as he’d no way of telling the time other than us shouting out “21 minutes”… “39 minutes”…
Also interesting to see who chose which bonus words to target and what a difference it made to the pre-bonus positions. Congratulations to Ian Hamilton who targeted the two big hitters, HANDICAP and HAZLEHEAD at 500 points each, gambling a bit to finish 51 seconds over time while hoovering up HAZE but boosting his score from 9th to 1st place. Also interesting to see that nobody chose to interpret the rules in a Taskmaster way by repeatedly running round GRAMP for 50 minutes – the rules didn’t say you could do that but then neither did they say you couldn’t – although I think that just demonstrates that orienteers have itchy feet and want to go new places all the time rather than a lack of deviousness.
Big thank you to the Essons for hosting the post-HHH social with 3 varieties of soup on offer plus nibbles, Lesley for the bumper crop of savoury scones which complemented the soup perfectly and Rachel for the pepperkakehus to round things off.
Thanks also to Pete, Ian, Sam, Tim, Zoe and Rachel for control wrangling and David Esson on keyboards.
Scrabble Score
Controls were labelled with letters, values were Scrabble letter points x 10.
As with a normal Score, face value for each letter was scored on first visit only but… stonking bonus points to be had for this event ( a sort of reverse handicap?) if you revisited controls in correct sequence whilst spelling out certain themed words as listed on the map. For maximum efficiency folk started spelling words right from the start which gained them control points and bonus points simultaneously.
Splits printout showed the letter codes so we could quickly check nobody had sneaked in a random high scoring letter somewhere in the sequence thus invalidating any bonus.
Time limit: 50 mins
Late finish penalty: 10 points/min over limit
Ultimate penalty: lose all points if over 60 mins
Click here for a copy of the map if you fancy doing some armchair orienteering. What would you have chosen to do?
GRAMPIAN ORIENTEERS 