roadrunner wrote:
RJ wrote:
Scott wrote:Does the club need to "offer" its area to BOF? Many major events will have a new map made and paid for from the event budget anyway; the commercial third party will probably be quite able to make its own contact with the relevant landowners.
I'm sure a third party would be able to do all the 'pre-event' organising, entries, maps, courses, controlling, RA. But..... where will the 100+ volunteers come from to man the on-the-day jobs. Perhaps a pre-requisite of your entry..... you have to do a spell on parking, starts etc!!
Yes, BOF and commercial parties could probably cover all of that - but the club that "owns" the area - probably one of its best ones - then loses the use of it during the embargo, but doesn't get any benefit from the event itself, and maybe its members still get roped in to help. Doesn't sound great from the club's point of view!
Which may well precipitate a breakaway orienteering organisation when the local club lays on its own event on its (copyrighted) map using commercially-available insurance and is disciplined by BOF. Good or bad? Discuss.
Statistics: Posted by cbg — Tue Mar 24, 2015 8:40 pm