NI Score and Night Championships 2023 (Updated)

NI Score and Night Championships   2023

Fermanagh Orienteers invite you to the Score and Night Championships and NI Prizegiving.

Venue Todd’s Leap Activity Centreliver.warping.seabirds

Date Saturday, 25th February, 2023
 

Directions From Belfast/Dublin/Enniskillenfollow A5 from Ballygawley towards Omagh. After approx. 2miles from Ballygawley roundabout turn right onto Tullyglush Rd (Brown – Todd’s Leap signage) then Todd’s Leap Rd. Entrance to Todd’s Leap Activity Centre is on the left.

From Omagh follow the A5 towards Ballygawley. After approx. 14 miles turn left onto Tullyglush Rd (Brown – Todd’s Leap signage) then Todd’s Leap Rd.

Parking Look for signage to Orienteering parking.

Facilities Toilets available in Todd’s Leap Activity Centre. Food/drinks available from Bar Menu (contact centre for times and menu).

Please note:- the centre will have a large number of clients onsite taking part in various activities so it will be very busy.

Entry details

  • Online entry at SiEntries from Thursday 2nd February 2023.
  • Entries close at midnight on Sunday 19th February 2023.

The NI Prizegiving will be held after the Score. See below.

Entry Fees

 MemberNon-Member
One EventTwo EventsOne EventTwo Events
Senior (aged 21 or over)  £10  £16  £12  £18
  Junior or Student  £5  £8  £6  £9
Maximum charge for a family*  £25  £40  £30  £45
*If you are entering a family and it comes to more than rates in the bottom row then please contact the organiser after you have paid for the individual Senior, or Junior/Student entries and we will arrange a refund of the difference. Parents accompanying children go free. SI timing card hire is free but lost cards are charged at a replacement cost of £30.

Score Championships Dunmoyle Forest (adjacent to Todd’s Leap, Co Tyrone)

Mass Start 2pm

Classes         

M/W Open
M/W Vet 45+
M/W Super Vet 55+
M/W Ultra Vet 65+
M/W18-
M/W14-

 Map This forest was mapped in late January 2023. The scale is 1:10,000

Terrain notes This is a mixed mainly conifer woodland with some rough moorland and recently felled areas. Extensive mature areas give generally fast running. There is a network of forest roads and an extensive pattern of unofficial mountain bike trails not all of which are mapped. There are steep slopes and ravines to be negotiated.

Toilets available in Todd’s Leap Activity Centre. Outside ones opposite the ‘Beer Garden’ and indoor ones (no studs please.) through the reception entrance.

Officials

  • Planner – Raymond Finlay
  • Controller – Robbie Bryson
  • Organiser – Teresa Finlay

NI Prizegiving

This will take place in the Todd’s Leap Activity Centre. If you know you are a prize-winner, please try to stay on to collect your prize. We would urge even those members who are not winners and/or not staying for the Night Champs to come along to applaud the prize winners. We aim to start at 4.00 pm. (Course closure on the ‘Score’ will be 3.00 pm)

It will take place in the Centre’s Conference Room upstairs through the Reception door. Please note the Centre provides a reasonably priced ‘Pub Grub’ menu but does not permit the consumption of your own food in the Beer Garden or the indoor bar area so please eat any food brought with you at your car. Access to the Centre’s many and varied activities must be pre-booked. Their website is toddsleap.com

Night Championships Todd’s Leap Activity Centre, Co Tyrone

Directions As above.  Fees as above.

Starts available from 6.00 – 7.00pm.  Courses close 8.00pm.

Course/Class combinations           

CourseClassesProvisional
1M Open, W Open3.0 km 180m
2M45+, M55+, W45+2.4 km 140m
3W55+, M16-, W16-1.9 km 110m

Map This Centre was mapped in late January 2023. The scale is 1:4,000 for clarity. It is not a Sprint map

Terrain notes the event will mainly be within the narrow and very unusual and compact grounds of the Activity Centre. These grounds sweep down along a very steep wooded East and South-east facing slope split by deep ravines. The woodland on the slope is passable. There is a very complex and confusing maze of tracks (many churned up by 4×4 vehicles!), paths, rough trails and fences mostly crossable. These all weave up, over and across the slope. There are a variety of unusual point features; animal sculptures and activity equipment! (There is also numerous unmapped small mobile activity equipment!) The ground is generally wet with a few streams and ponds. All courses will visit some rough moorland with the Long and Medium also crossing to the other side of the main road (very quiet but take care!).

Officials

  • Planner – Raymond Finlay
  • Controller – Robbie Bryson
  • Organiser – Teresa Finlay

NI Score and Night Championships 2023

Fermanagh Orienteers invite you to the Score and Night Championships on Saturday 25th February 2023.

The NI Prizegiving will be held after the Score.

We hope to have a new map for these events and will publish details in early February. SiEntries will also open then.

Frostbite 23 – 3 Florencecourt West end

Sunday 15 January 2023

Don’t let the shortness of the courses fool you! It is a ‘barebones’ type of event where participants are expected to be experienced orienteers and who come with all necessary clothing (for very cold/wet winter conditions) and equipment including a plastic bag (A4) for map cover (plain paper and printed on ink-jet). Please ring 028 66348937 or email raymondfinlay@btinternet.com at least 24 hrs in advance to book a map.

Activity charge £5 for all participants. 

Registration between 9.15 – 9.45. Starts between 9.30 and 10.00am Courses will close at 11.30. (so that everyone can have Sunday Lunch!)

Terrain notes: Courses negotiate well featured open limestone grassland hillside descending into mature conifer interspersed with winter levels of undergrowth and occasionally negotiable clear-felled areas. On the ground decisions may pay dividends, or not!

Assembly: located on Marlbank Road (on a bend 400m beyond the left turn mentioned below)

https://goo.gl/maps/5zxsyoMj3FgqejGbA

10 miles from Enniskillen following directions for Sligo then Marble Arch Caves. Through Florencecourt village and then 3 miles west. Sign then indicates to turn left to Marble Arch Caves.

Parking is limited to roadside and care is needed to ensure safe parking and vehicle access to the field gate.

Courses – None of these are suitable for beginners or young juniors! Please choose carefully as terrain is demanding.

Long 4K 145m

Short 2.8K 120m

Very Short 2K 90m.

Starts are a 10-minute uphill walk following tapes from parking.

Finish 5 min walk back to parking.

Planner Damian Gribbin

Frostbite 23 – 2 Crossmurrin

Travel directions

Follow road signs for Marble Arch Caves. Coming from the Enniskillen direction go past the Caves entrance approximately 1 Km to the second of the Killykeegan Nature Reserve carparks where registration/download is situated.

GR 110340           Any3words  – flattens.staining.submitted

Don’t let the shortness of the courses fool you! It is a ‘barebones’ type of event where participants are expected to be experienced orienteers and who come with all necessary clothing (for very cold/wet winter conditions) and equipment including a plastic bag (A4) for map cover (plain paper and printed on ink-jet). Please ring 028 66348937 or email raymondfinlay@btinternet.com at least 24 hrs in advance to book a map.

Activity charge £5 for all participants.  

Registration between 9.15 – 9.45. Starts between 9.30 and 10.00am Courses will close at 11.30. (so as everyone can have Sunday Lunch!)

Terrain Notes

This is not a place for beginners! The courses are technically difficult and will mainly use the West side of the area. The terrain in the West consists of complex limestone upland, clothed in places by low visibility scrub woodland and rough open farmland. The ground conditions vary, with rough and stony limestone pavement, boggy moorland and short grass meadows. Fences and walls will need to be negotiated, some of which are in poor condition. Please report any damage.

Courses – None of these are suitable for beginners or young juniors!

Long course – 4Km (140m)

Short course – 2.8Km (70m)

Very Short course – 1.9Km (30m)