Summer Evenings 1: Hell Wath, 6th May – Results
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. Beginners Course starts 1815-1900. Snook-O mass start 1830, but later starts available by negotiation with the organiser. Courses close 1945
Courses:
1. Beginners score event (as many controls as possible in 45 minutes).
2. Snook-O – a modified score event, 45 min See explanation of Snook-O rules below.
The Beginners course does not leave the Hell Wath nature reserve; the Snook-O has some controls in the adjacent housing estate where there may be a little traffic.
Post event social: drinks & food at South Lodge Pub, Ripon, HG4 1ST, food orders to David: ripondays@gmail.com by 12 noon on Monday 4th. Menu at https://www.thesouthlodgeripon.co.uk/food
Entries: Choose either a Golden Ticket for all 6 races for the price of 5, or to enter this event individually.
Golden Ticket: 
This event only:
Entry details: British Orienteering senior members £6 (Golden Ticket £30), non-members £7 (£35); juniors £2 (£10). Timing chip hire: Seniors £1 (£5), Juniors £0.50 (£2.50). Please note, the fee for a lost chip is £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 each Red, you then ‘pot’ a bonus colour control, each worth the points as set out below. 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 start this sequence off, you MUST pot the White control first (worth 0 points); after this, 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 first, you don’t get any points from the other colours, so don’t forget!
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.