Discussion: Results

Hello everyone! Thank you to everyone who competed today, we hope you had fun and we look forward to hosting y'all tomorrow at Lake Frederick!

The official results for Day 1 have been posted on our website, both by class and by course. Splits should be uploaded to attackpoint shortly.

Secondly, here is the link to Livelox. Please let us know if there are any issues

Just a note...I'm having trouble accessing the meet guide and hadn't downloaded it. I don't know if others are having this issue.

Hello everyone! Thank you to everyone who competed this weekend. Our team had a blast hosting you all! We hope y'all enjoyed the courses and the terrain.

The official 2-Day Combined results, as well as results for each day have been posted on our website, both by class and by course. Splits should be uploaded to Attackpoint later today.

Livelox for Day 2 is posted as well.

Please share any comments you have, about the courses, logistics, registration, etc, so that we can put on an even better NRE for everyone next year. Each year a different member will be in charge of each role, so these comments will play a big role in helping the various functions improve for the future.

Thanks, all! My family had a great time and thought the event was really well organized! We were discussing Livelox routes way too late into the evening!

West Point NRE Event Recap is now posted on the Orienteering USA website. Links to Results, Splits, Maps, Routes & Photos.

I signed up for West Point expecting it to be tough. It did not disappoint! For those that whizzed through the day 2 courses especially, I would really appreciate some pointers for how to move quickly through that type of fine terrain detail. Attackpoints to use? I have never seen that density of rocky features and spent half the time wandering around trying to make sense of it. The only routes I managed passably well on are ones I could clearly distinguish a large feature, like a trail bend, stream, or marsh, and even then I was pokey slow because of uncertainty.

Also, my wife came with me this trip and did the white courses. She does not orienteer but it was gratifying for both us that she could participate. So thank you for the planning and attention that goes into that end of the spectrum.

Thank you to the West Point cadets for organizing an enjoyable and well-run event!

@JBoyer- excited to see you made the trek east, and sorry we missed you, we couldn’t make it this year.

I think most people have come out of their first West Point event with a feeling of despair. I looked back at my own log in 2018. I DNF the first day and was out there forever the second day. Coming from SMOC land it was terrain type so totally different, both on the map and in the field that it almost felt like a different sport. I can imagine your experience was similar.

I’m sure others can provide you better actual tips than me, but just a few thoughts:
1) someone once told me the more orienteering you do the more places, you create a mental catalogue that you learn to apply to new terrain types. So, the more you orienteer in general, the easier, or at least more familiar, it gets.

2) specific to your question, learning to “look past” all of the features, and focus on the “important ones” is a hard skill to develop, but paramount to navigating in terrain like West Point. Such as Ignoring all the rock features, and pretending it’s only contours.

3) practice what you can in the terrain you can. Like getting contours only versions of courses, even in NEOOC or SMOC. This really helps your learn to navigate off of new features instead of easy features like trails.

I’ve been to West Point 4 times and I think each time feels a little better. Other places like New Hampshire can provide similar enough terrain to be useful training grounds as well.

Hope that helps!

@kfish - good to hear from you! Hope all is well with you guys. Thanks so much for the note - sounds like strong advice and appreciated. Hoping paths will cross again sometime soon.

Nice article in the West Point news about the event.

(Okay, so most competitors weren't given compasses with their maps, but they could borrow them.)

So Yury Tambasov is not mentioned anywhere here, is that on purpose?