SWOC Christmas Snooker Score Event
                 Castell Coch  28 December 2004
                        Results

                      Snooker Score Results.	(Max possible: 260)

				    Punched	Time								            Points	Penalty	       Total
	1.	A. Powell		260		260
	2.	Rhodri Buffett	SWOC	M16	260 	30	230
	3.	James Clemence	SWOC	M40	230		230
	4.	Richard Sharp	TVOC	M40	230	10	220
	5.	Dai Wilson	RAFO	M21	200		200
	6.	Jeff Colbert	SWOC	M21	200	20	180
	7.	Steve Collins	EBOR	M35	170		170
	=	Gareth Buffett	SWOC	M55	170		170
	9.	Michael Bryant	SWOC	M16	160		160
	10.	Peter Ribbans	SWOC	M45	170	15	155
	11.	David Mitchell	SBOC	M45	150		150	
	=	Ifor Powell	BOK	M35	150		150
	=	Steve Edwards	IND	M40	150		150
	14.	Frank Ince	SWOC	M60	140		140
	=	Roger Stein	SBOC	M50	160	20	140
	16.	Peter Nicholson	SWOC	M55	130		130
	=	John Mills	SWOC	M50	130		130	
	=	Andy Creber	BOK	M45	130		130
	=	Nigel Ferrand	SWOC	M45	130		130
	20.	Lauren Ferrand	SWOC	W16	120		120
	=	Peter Colbert	SWOC	M50	120		120
	=	Ian Kennett	IND	M40	120		120
	23.	Holly Bryant	SWOC	W14	110		110
	=	Noel Bryant	SWOC	W45	110		110
	=	Helen Sharp	SWOC	W40	110		110
	26.	Bryan Stadden			110	5	105
	27.	Sue Colbert	SWOC	W55	110	10	100
	=	Bob Teed	NGOC	M65	100		100
	29.	Jeff Bryant	SWOC	M45	140	45	95
	30.	Tony Noot	BOK	M65	90		90
	31.	Kate Balmond	SWOC		90	5	85
	32.	Alan Mackenzie	SWOC	M55	70		70


Non-Snooker Score:	(Max possible: 160)

	1.	Sam Mitchell	SBOC	M10	160	160
	=	Ben Mitchell	SBOC	M12	160	160
	=	Peter Seward	SBOC	M70	160	160
	=	Bridget Stein	SBOC	W45	160	160
	5.	Holly Morris	SWOC	W10	80	80
	=	Owen & Iestyn Morris	SWOC	M4/6	80	80
	7.	Jake & Lowri Jones			70	70
	8.	Alex Kennett	IND		60	60
	9.	Rebecca Collins			50	50
	=	Shaun Collins			50	50


Comments:
 Thanks to John for running registration and to Clem for collecting in a third of the controls - without his help there would still be controls to collect tomorrow (Wed). It rapidly gets dark around 4:20 as I found out on Monday, when I had to abandon putting out some controls.
 Also thank you all for coming, without your support it would not be worthwhile. Right now, Tues 9:45pm, it's been a long day - in the forest at 8:00am, I wonder why I ever volunteered to put on the event. As anyone who has done these things before will realise, orienteering is an extremely labour intensive activity - I reckon this small event has taken 4 / 5 man-days to stage. It would be soul destroying if it was not for your support.
Not sure what to make of the "snooker" approach. Clearly some of you really enjoyed it - not surprisingly they were the ones who did well. Others I suspect kept their own council! Although the total area of the map is not too small, the area is split into two by a very steep (eastern slope) of the central N/S ridge. This results in splitting the map into two rather small areas. It then becomes difficult to put on a standard 1-hour score event which will challenge the younger, fitter orienteers. This "snooker" approach did allow this. However, on reflection I should have given a little more consideration to the location of some of the controls "revealed" at the colour controls. In particular at the Pink control they should not all have been so distant.

Graham Tough