Summer Evenings 1: Hell Wath, 6th May

Welcome to the first in the annual series of 6 summer evening events. Note that this year they are being held on Wednesday evenings, not Tuesdays! For this we return to a perennial favourite, Hell Wath, and a fun format that proved really popular last year: Snook-O – snooker with a map! Details of how it works are given at the end of the event details below.

Venue: Football pavilion (Ripon City Panthers JFC), Hell Wath Lane HG4 2SE
Location w3w: evidently.standards.unravel OS grid: SE300698
Times: Registration opens 1800, mass start 1830 (late starts till 1900), courses close 1945

Courses:
1. Beginners course: score event (as many controls as possible in 45 minute time limit)
2. Snook-O: modified score event, 45 minute time limit (see details below)

Entries: via Racesignup when available
Entry details: British Orienteering senior members £6, non-members £7; juniors £2. Timing chip hire: Seniors £1, Juniors £0.50 (fee for a lost chip: £30). Enter by midnight Sun May 3rd for a guaranteed map.

Snook-O – how it works
Its a lot simpler in the doing than in the writing, but here goes! There will also be a briefing on the evening.
There are 8 red controls, and a full set of the 6 other colours from Yellow to Black. There is also a special White control.
To start with, you have to ‘pot’ as many Red controls as you can. These can be done in any order. After every Red, you then ‘pot’ a bonus colour control, each worth the points as set out below (and as in snooker). Each Red can only be potted once.
Having potted all 8 reds plus bonuses (or at any point earlier if you want!) you can move on to potting the colours, in their set sequence of increasing value. To show that you have started this sequence, you MUST start with the White control (worth 0 points); after ‘potting’ the White, you cannot pot any more Reds, and you must pot the colours in the correct sequence to count them. If you don’t pot the White, you don’t get any points from the other colours so don’t forget! Also be sure you don’t pot the White accidentally – if you do, you will have to move on the colours to score any more points.
As with any score event, you receive penalties for any time late back: 1pt for every 12 seconds
late (ie 5pts per minute). So, don’t be late!
Red controls are numbered 191-198. The colours are numbered 20X where X is their points value, so White is 200, Yellow 202, Green 203, Brown 204, Blue 205, Pink 206, Black 207.