El Dorado Valentine Score-O 2022

El Dorado Regional Park, Long Beach

Sunday, February 6, 2022

An enthusiastic group of about 70 orienteers gathered at El Dorado park for our Valentine Score-O event. This event utilizes the score-O course from the previous day's youth meet which is made up mostly of beginner and intermediate level controls. Combined with the flat, grassy picnic terrain at El Dorado, it was fast and furious.

Eight runners managed to get to all of the points within the time limit, but a twist added some additional strategy. Each control had a tag attached that the first person to arrive could remove and turn in for a 10 point bonus. With a total of 30 controls on the course, that's a total of 300 additional points up for grabs! James Prunty from Eldorado NJROTC made the most of this. He took a quick route to the southern part of the map, picking up a good portion of the tags available along the way. Event though his strategy meant skipping a few controls, he eked out a Junior Male win over James Wofford of Troy who visited all controls and scored a few tags to match Prunty's score, but without as fast a time. They were bested only by Adult Male winner Sergey Biryukov who picked up all of the controls and a few tags in a time close to Prunty's. Top female result was Noelani Lopez of Eldorado with a score of 650 points.

In the premier Valentine Pair category, The Romantic Wannabees had the highest score, missing only one control. But as late starters they missed the awards ceremony and the candy went to team Coffee??

Thanks to all the volunteers who made this event possible:

Preregistration - Allan Pincus

Course Setter - Joe Vlietstra

Registration - Clare Durand

Epunch - Rich Hoesly

Finish - Harvey Woo

Control Pickup - Rich Hoesly, Troy NJROTC

Event Announcement

Place Score Name Club COOL Time Punched Penalty Extra

Junior Female (8) 30 C 720 Pts 1:00:00

1 650 Noelani Lopez LAOC Eldorado 45:57 640 +10

2 640 Lauren Gao LAOC Troy 1:01:36 650 -10

3 600 Isabella Domingue LAOC Eldorado 53:19 600

4 510 Samantha Hook LAOC 53:26 510

5 500 Ashley Park LAOC Troy 1:01:05 510 -10

6 320 Katrina Salcedo LAOC Eldorado 46:07 320

7 310 Marcia Castillo LAOC Eldorado 53:15 310

8 260 Esperanza Rojas LAOC Eldorado 46:10 260

Junior Male (26) 30 C 720 Pts 1:00:00

1 740 James Prunty LAOC Eldorado 44:04 640 +100

2 740 James Wofford LAOC Troy 59:21 720 +20

3 720 Brian Phan LAOC Troy 43:02 710 +10

4 720 Mikhail Biryukov LAOC 43:03 720

5 720 Dimitri Kouloumbis LAOC Troy 50:46 720

6 720 Nikita Phillips LAOC Troop 97 53:50 710 +10

7 720 Eric Hong LAOC Troy 59:10 720

8 705 Kevin Yuan LAOC Troy 1:02:02 670 -15 +50

9 690 Ryan Lee-Nguyen LAOC Troy 53:47 680 +10

10 680 Jasper Wang LAOC Troy 58:14 680

11 660 Ostty Wang LAOC Troy 58:41 660

12 650 Jonathan Sanchez LAOC Eldorado 52:36 650

13 630 Tom Yuan LAOC Troy 55:35 630

14 625 Gino Duarte LAOC Eldorado 1:10:20 710 -85

15 580 Ethan Noh LAOC Troy 51:56 580

16 570 Alex He LAOC CS Arts 58:14 570

17 570 Caden Salazar LAOC Troy 59:18 570

18 560 Davin Schneider LAOC Eldorado 50:13 510 +50

19 550 Krishna Chugani LAOC Troy 55:13 550

20 525 Chris Seo LAOC Troy 1:08:37 590 -65

21 520 Ryan Leem LAOC Troy 45:52 520

22 500 Andy Garcia LAOC Eldorado 59:22 500

23 480 Anthony Rivera LAOC Eldorado 58:55 470 +10

24 470 Freddy Wang LAOC Troy 55:40 470

25 210 Joshua Lee LAOC Troy 43:04 210

disq Aaron Shan LAOC Troy 52:42 720

Adult Female (5) 30 C 720 Pts 1:00:00

1 580 Jossalyn Emslie LAOC 52:50 580

2 580 Elena Vinnichenko none 57:28 580

3 520 Clare Durand LAOC 54:19 520

4 250 Nitza Brand none 44:29 250

5 210 Judy Shubin none 53:41 210

Adult Male (9) 30 C 720 Pts 1:00:00

1 760 Sergey Biryukov none 44:19 720 +40

2 730 Todd Hook LAOC 46:30 720 +10

3 720 Wayne Cottrell LAOC 48:44 720

4 720 Ron Sandvick SDO 49:39 720

5 720 John Kuehle LAOC 49:46 700 +20

6 695 Sergei Vinnichenko none 1:04:30 720 -25

7 660 Lorenzo Rossi LAOC 52:44 660

8 630 John Grieshaber LAOC 58:11 630

9 545 Christopher Cassone LAOC 1:00:02 550 -5

Valentine Pair (4) 30 C 720 Pts 1:00:00

1 710 The Romantic Wannabes none 58:24 710

2 660 Coffee?? LAOC 53:30 660

3 625 Joseph and Sharon LAOC 1:00:36 630 -5

4 220 Shiloh's posse LAOC 53:54 220

Family Team (2) 30 C 720 Pts 1:00:00

1 610 Katerina and Polina none 58:35 610

2 470 Pokemon LAOC 58:23 470

Junior Team (2) 30 C 720 Pts 1:00:00

1 535 Loony Llamas none 1:06:30 580 -45

2 495 Torum none 1:04:53 520 -25

Adult Team (3) 30 C 720 Pts 1:00:00

1 500 Bestie Mamas none 55:34 500

2 500 Golden Buffaloes none 59:26 500

3 330 Brown Fox LAOC 44:11 330