The President's Cup 2020 (the 33rd)

Uringa's President's Cup is an award, a competition, a tradition.

The 2020 Cups

Course setter and Club President determine the results

Small Cup: Sam James & Nick Wilmott, Medium Cup: Jonathan & Ant Nolan, Big Cup: Linda Sesta, with cup maker Jitka Kopriva

The 2020 Competition

Course setting was delegated to Matt Peters, who had advised potential competitors in a recent Uringa newsletter:

As a previous President’s Cup fried brains with completion of a puzzle and in response to subsequent controversy, there will be no sudoku.

 

There will also be no trivia additional to that associated with finding the answers to the clues?  Some controls will have missing answers and some will have missing questions!!

 

The Cup will be offered in three classes.

1 “I’m only here for the party”  9 Controls        2.0km              Baby bear climb

2 “I want to work up a thirst”.   12 Controls      3.6km              Mummy bear climb

3  “I am here to impress”.           15 Controls      4.7km              Daddy bear climb

 

 

The tradition

The first President's Cup event was on the Belanglo Creek map in 1988. Michael Anderson and Wendy Fleming were awarded cups (only two presented in those days). Bruce Graham was recorded with the fastest time. Those Uringans are no longer in the club. In 1989 Keith Richardson and Jan Sargood were awarded cups on the Bunnygalore map, and Nick Wilmott was recorded with the fastest time. Keith and Jan were still orienteering until a couple of years ago, and Nick was here this year.

Potter and orienteer Jitka Kopriva crafts the cups. She has been doing it since that first year (or perhaps the year after).

It's orienteering. Maps are involved. What the course is depends on the setter.  Nick Wilmott reports that the first time he was awarded a cup (1997, Peters Precinct) there were no circles on the map, only descriptions of the control features. Linda Sesta's (2011, Grays Point) included questions that tested map reading skills.  Courses set by Matt Peters in recent years (Villa Maria) have featured increasingly challenging question-and-answer formats.