Griffith Park Navigation Challenge

Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA

Sunday, March 27, 2022

Griffith Park decided that they did not want us putting out our usual controls, so for the first time we tried using the MapRun app as the punching system for an in-person event. Most things went pretty smoothly, but we also learned along the way. We tried having pin flags with codes as a backup manual system, but we lost about a third of them, so it didn't work very well. It was important that people could download the course in advance. This could be a problem if the assembly area doesn't have service or a place close by to get service. It is likely that next year, we will do this event entirely with the app and not put out anything physical. We'd love to hear feedback on how you liked using the app at this event.

The course had a total of 36 controls with a total of 2,360 points available and four hours to get what you could. Alex Kiperman achieved the high score of the day visiting 27 controls for a score of 1,820 points. La Habra NJROTC Team 2 with 960 points was the top score for any entry that included a female. Mikhail and Sergey Biryukov amassed 1,360 points to be the top entry that included a Junior member.

Candy bar awards were distributed to the top scorers in the categories shown in the results below.

The MapRun app creates its own results file which also links to a routegadget where you can see everyone's route. Some official results do not match the MapRun results due to score adjustments made by the organizers.

Thanks to all the volunteers who made this event possible:

Course Design - Clare Durand

Pin Flag setting and Pickup - Rich Hoesly, Chris Cassone, Clare Durand, Karen Murphy

Preregistration - Allan Pincus

Start/Finish - Harvey Woo

Instruction - Gary Dolgin, Chris Cassone

Event Announcement

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2022-03-26 Griffith Challenge

Results

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Place Score Name Club Time Punched Penalty

ScoreO

1 1820 Alexander Kiperman LAOC 3:57:34 1820 0

2 1660 Searching For Catan Jeff Lind LAOC 4:04:10 1810 150

3 1630 Lorenzo Rossi LAOC 4:01:26 1690 60

4 1360 Mikhail Biryukov (Rev30) LAOC 3:41:00 1360 0

5 1300 Ron Sandvick SDO 3:49:55 1300 0

6 1300 Eugene Kiperman LAOC 3:56:54 1300 0

7 1270 Mikhail Biryukov LAOC 3:41:00 1270 0

8 1230 Richard Dekany LAOC 3:32:07 1230 0

9 1050 Sage Thompson LAOC 3:51:57 1050 0

10 980 Joseph He LAOC 3:36:51 980 0

11 960 Ada. Reilly 3:07:32 960 0

12 960 Anthony Luna 3:52:12 960 0

13 950 Jennifer Sorbello 3:38:08 950 0

14 940 Jonah Peretti The Harnettis 3:48:00 940 0

15 930 Alan Van Drie 3:45:09 930 0

16 900 Jeff Laun LAOC 3:58:16 900 0

17 880 Sergei Vinnichenko 4:02:39 970 90

18 850 Kristi Samuelson 3:52:29 850 0

19 800 Lorenzo RossiTest LAOC 1:21:45 800 0

20 770 Eric Park 3:35:27 770 0

21 720 Luca Martinez Flores LHHS NJROTC T1 3:46:09 720 0

22 710 Laura Rink Ms. Clownfishiní 3:22:23 710 0

23 620 Kim Pincus LAOC 3:32:39 620 0

24 500 Catherine Fox LAOC 3:08:16 500 0

25 250 Elena Vinnichenko none 4:31:58 1210 960

26 220 Dan Hayes 2:34:04 220 0

27 180 isabella windust team 2:26:27 180 0

28 160 Clare Durand LAOC 35:29 160 0

29 100 isabella windust team 46:29 100 0

30 -200 David Saxum MARS 4:34:54 850 1050

31 -880 John Grieshaber Coast2Coast 5:02:21 1010 1890