Night-O and Search-and-Destroy-O at Cricket Holler Scout Camp

December 17, 2011

17 groups with 40 people came out on a warm night to the annual MVOC Night-O and potluck party. The first hour was the standard score-style Night-O, with 20 points up for grabs. However, this year, the fiendishly difficult course was created by Ben Bond, who was completing his Orienteering merit badge for Boy Scouts. Only 2 competitors would get all 20, one of them being someone who actually set all of them that afternoon. Before the 1 hour time limit, everyone was instructed to return and hand in their punch cards so that they were eligible for the Search-And-Destroy-O, with extra points for bringing back the controls. The 2 top competitors duked it out but only 1 emerged victorious, having grabbed 3 controls to bring back which negated the fact that his adversary came in earlier.

Many thanks go to Ben for creating the course, field checking, and setting the controls; Matt Bond for course consultation, field checking, and course setting; and to Tom Wentling who handled most of registration, and then went on to do the course with his friend.

The tiebreaker for teams with the same number of controls (punched and retrieved) was time. The time listed is how many minutes/seconds before the 1 hour time limit expired (so a longer time listed means they got back earlier.) Times listed as 0:00 are overtime.

 

 

Team Name

# Punched

# Retrieved

# Total

Time

1

Mike Minium (OCIN)

20

3

23

4:47

2

Matt Bond (MVOC)

20

2

22

14:16

3

Klipstines (Tri County Thunder)

16

3

19

2:33

4

Forte, Swartout, Johnston (Greenville NJROTC)

12

3

15

9:20

5

Ryan Howell

15

 

15

0:00

6

Mendenhall, Denman, Thornburry (Greenville NJROTC)

12

2

14

9:20

7

Fairborn 1 (Fairborn AFJROTC)

11

2

13

6:17

8

Tom Wentling, Justin Grace

10

2

12

1:10

9

Jarek Akers, Logan Bakies

12

 

12

0:00

10

Fairborn 3 (Fairborn AFJROTC)

11

 

11

2:07

11

Caterina Svobodny (MVOC)

9

 

9

0:00

12

Fairborn 6 (Fairborn AFJROTC)

7

1

8

13:15

13

Fairborn 4 (Fairborn AFJROTC)

8

 

8

12:55

14

Fairborn 5 (Fairborn AFJROTC)

8

 

8

11:09

15

Fairborn 2 (Fairborn AFJROTC)

5

1

6

12:47

16

Gusek, Day, Dingman (Greenville NJROTC)

3

1

4

11:41

17

Potter, Parsons, Spencer (Greenville NJROTC)

3

 

3

0:00