League season:
Every year QO organises six local events with colour coded courses which form the Forest League. The series starts in the Autumn and continues at approximately 1 event per month until the spring. Trophies and certificates are usually awarded at the club championships in the summer.
The current series is as follows:
| Date: |
Venue: |
| Sunday 20 November 2011 |
St Audries |
| Sunday 18 December 2011 |
Lydeard Hill, Middle Hill, Aisholt Common and Muchcare Wood, etc |
| Sunday 29 January 2012 |
Culm Davy |
| Sunday 12 February 2012 |
Cothelstone Hill and Twenty Acre Wood |
| Sunday 25 March 2012 |
Priors Park Wood |
| Sunday 13 May 2012 |
Staple Hill |
The league is open to any member of a BOF affiliated orienteering club. Non-members are not scored. Only individual competitors are eligible, i.e. pairs, teams, 2nd runs and shadowed juniors are not scored. Eligible competitors are automatically entered into the league - no separate registration is required.
The winner of each course is the person with the highest score from their best four events over the season. Two separate scoring systems are used: The Elite League and Handicap League.
The Elite League scores are generated purely from the finish times. On each course the average time for the top 90% of the qualifying competitors is worth 1000 points. Each score is based on 100pts for each standard deviation quicker or slower than the average time.
The Handicap League scores take into account age handicaps, in order to try to eliminate the effects of age and sex. All times are first adjusted by multiplying competitors actual times by handicap factors based on the competitors age class. This often changes who the course winner is! Based on the adjusted times the scores are calculated as above. The age handicaps are as follows:
| Male: |
Female: |
| Class: |
Age Handicap: |
Class: |
Age Handicap: |
| M10 |
0.70 |
W10 |
0.60 |
| M12 |
0.74 |
W12 |
0.62 |
| M14 |
0.80 |
W14 |
0.65 |
| M16 |
0.84 |
W16 |
0.67 |
| M18 |
0.88 |
W18 |
0.70 |
| M20 |
0.93 |
W20 |
0.71 |
| M21 |
1.00 |
W21 |
0.80 |
| M35 |
0.93 |
W35 |
0.71 |
| M40 |
0.89 |
W40 |
0.67 |
| M45 |
0.84 |
W45 |
0.62 |
| M50 |
0.79 |
W50 |
0.57 |
| M55 |
0.74 |
W55 |
0.53 |
| M60 |
0.68 |
W60 |
0.48 |
| M65 |
0.60 |
W65 |
0.44 |
| M70 |
0.53 |
W70 |
0.39 |
| M75 |
0.46 |
W75 |
0.35 |
Below are the winners of the 2009-2010 QO Forest League being congratulated by club president Mike Crockett:
