Resources For Event Organizers

Meet Director

• Cascade OC Event Director Checklist
• Cascade OC list of meet staff job descriptions
• USOF Meet Director's Guide
• The Canadian Orienteering Federation has a brief list of resources for organizers
• British Orienteering Federation guide for organizers
• British Handbook For Major Event Organizers Comphrehensive. Of note are the sections "I would never have expected ...." and the description at the end of dealing with a major medical emergency.
• Bay Area OC Meet Director's Guide
• The Bay Area OC web site also lists numerous other guides and resources
• The Delaware Valley Orienteering Association's Event Directors Corner is an extensive collection of material
• The New England Orienteering Club's Event Director's Handbook is comprehensive, but does not include electronic punching or print-the-night-before O' maps.
• The USOF USOF "Virtual Binder" contains a lot of very useful information

Course Design

Long, long ago, Mike Schuh wrote a couple of articles on course design that were published in Bearing 315, the Cascade OC newsletter (part 1  part 2). A third part was contemplated, but never written... (something Mike can add to his "to-do" list). Mike's articles were written before the advent of electronic punching and such wonders as OCAD and CONDES.

There are also the USOF Course Design Guidelines. There are many other useful documents in the USOF "Virtual Binder".

Ben Hall (Cascade OC) has written an e-punch operator's manual, available at http://www.nwlink.com/~ben/odocs/.

The Canadian Orienteering Federation also has a SportIdent guide for organizers (Cascade OC practice differs from the Canadian procedures).

Here is a suggested layout for the start area at WIOL meets.

Tool To Assign Start Time Blocks Written by Mike Schuh (Cascade OC); of value primarily to the WIOL Director.