Quid GamesSat 18 January, 2025

Local level event

Explanation of Event levels

Training events are non competitive events used for training and coaching, aimed at members of the club, but they can attract people from neighbouring clubs, and are often ideal for newcomers to try the sport.
Local events are usually low key and in the 'localised' area, ideal for newcomers to try the sport. Most clubs run some 'mini series' throughout the year as local mid week events.
Regional events attract participants from around the local Region.
National events are high quality competitions that will attract people from far away,
Major events are Major Events such as a British Championships or the annual JK competition.

Results

• Results: Splits and Scores

RouteGadget

Is a web browser app for sharing and comparing orienteering routes. You can draw your own route or upload a GPS track from your watch. It also allows you to watch an animated replay with a simulated mass start.

Go to the Pendle Forest Routegadget now

Location Info

Near:
Lat,Lng:
Postcode: BD23 3AE

Directions / Parking

There will be marshals to guide you once off the A59, follow signs for Utopia Café/business park. There is a large wide car park to the south of Utopia Café. (Pictured below follow the yellow arrows). Beware this is also the 'warm -up' area for participants so please drive slowly.

Map / Terrain

Map/Equipment/Terrain/First Aid:

The map will be a two-sided map of a scale 1:5000. This means that for every 1cm on the map it is 50m 'on the ground'. It will not be a true orienteering map, but a map from Open Orienteering Map. This will show roads, paths, walls, fences, building and woodland. It will be simple to understand regardless of your orienteering experience! There will be blank maps in the event village to have a look at!

You will not need to know how to use a compass to navigate around, though as always it would be a benefit. Checkpoints will be located in easy to nav places - the skill is deciding what to go for and it what order! Will you head straight for a prize control or play the long game and build up the points??

The terrain is very runnable and a great mix of track/road and runnable farmland. There are very few grazing sheep on the grounds so underfoot is very stable, trail shoes but not dobs are recommended. There will be very quiet service roads on the course, traffic is expected to be a minimum but as always, be aware.

Where there are walls and fences - please only cross these at crossing points - these are shown on your map with two purple lines pointing outwards, help us keep Broughton Estate happy!

First Aid will be located at information - there are also two remote, self applied first aid bags on the course, shown by a red first aid cross on your map.

Out of bounds areas:

Broughton Hall stately home and it's private grounds will be out of bounds throughout the event, as will other areas, these are clearly marked on your map with purple hashings. You must respect this at all times - there will be marshals on the course to enforce this. Pictured below are out of bounds areas for before the race - again these will be marshalled, you will not be allowed to warm up in the areas shown in purple hashings, and can only do so in the car park - please look out for each other!

Course Information

Format:

60 minute score course -Mass Start at 6pm
10 checkpoints located around the grounds each worth 10 points - maximum score 100 points, overall winners will be decided by the highest points achieved in the quickest time, male and female.

You can visit the checkpoints in any order - once.However you must visit Checkpoint #10 last - this will be clearly marked on your map. This will be located near the Finish and will be placed on the course after the race has started- there is a prize for the fastest run into the finish from Checkpoint 10 for both male/female.
You will not have the map at the start of the race! At 6pm - a Silva Spectra Headlamp will highlight where the maps are located within the grounds- get there as fast as you can to grab one map from the boxes of maps at this location.
Where you are when you pick up the map (not where the mass start was) will be shown by a triangle on your map.
At each checkpoint will be an orange & white orienteering flag and an SI Timing box (pictured below) - place your SI Card into the box to record your visit- it will beep.
The checkpoints will be numbered purple circles on the map - they will be located where the circle is and not the number corresponding to it.
Once you have visited the mandatory final checkpoint #10 - the finish is shown by a double circle - make sure you put your SI Card into the finish boxes to stop your time!
You will lose 2 points per minute late after 60 mins - time your return! After 15 minutes (7:15pm) you will lose all of your points and any prizes you may have gained throughout the event.
After you have finished - visit the Download/Information tent to download your SI Card - this will tell us how many checkpoints you visited and in what time. Results will be announced in the prize giving which starts at 7:30pm.

Entry Details

Entry £10 plus £1 for dibber hire. Entries limited to 150 participants. No EOD.

Facilities

Information/SI card pick up:
There will be many volunteers to answer any questions you may have, plus blank maps for you to familiarise yourself with. If you have hired an SI card - please visit the British Orienteering marquee in the event village to pick this up. Before the race you will be instructed to 'Clear' and 'Check' the SI card, this will take place at the race briefing at 5:45pm.This involves putting the SI card into two small boxes and registers your card for the event - marshals will show you how if you are unsure.

During the race the SI card must be placed on your finger to punch in the boxes (pictured below) - do not lose this!

Event Village:

The event village will open at 5pm, there will be an information tent, portaloos and stands from our sponsors Rab, Scarpa, OTE Nutrition and Silva. Our sponsors will have brilliant gear for you to try both at the event village and out on the course, including;

Rab:
Available to test - 10x Veil 1 and 13x Veil 6 lightweight running vests - useful for putting in some spot prize control items (full details below). There will also be Spring/Summer 25 kit to preview on the stand.

Scarpa:
Spin ST Trail Running Shoes to test out on course! Fantastic grip for the terrain!

OTE Nutrition:
OTE Cookie and Cream Duo Bars will be making their debut at the Quid Games socome and try some free samples! Show your Quid Games keyring (collected out on course) to Max once you have finished, to claim a free anytime bar too.

Silva:
Silva will have demo headtorches to borrow for the event - first come first served! There will be a range of torches to view at the Silva shelter should you be looking to upgrade your headtorch from SportsShoes in the future, these will range from 250 lumen to 3000 Lumen modular headtorches.

Food/Drink:
North Pizza (@northpizzaco) will be there with a woodfired pizza oven perfect for your post-race munchies! A coffee van will also be serving hot drinks, you are also welcome to bring your own refreshments into the village. Both of these accept card payments.

Miscellaneous

Prizes:

Prize giving will start from 7:30pm in the event village, enough time to get into warm clothes, order your pizza and chat about the race!

Overall Winner M/F 18-39 -Huge swag of prizes from our sponsors and SportsShoes!
2/3 place M/F 18-39 -Sponsor Bundles

Overall Veteran Winner M/F 40+ - Sponsor bundles

Prize Checkpoints- On the course, some of the checkpoints will prize checkpoints! These will be shown on the map as usual checkpoint circles with the sponsor logo next to them. At the sponsor checkpoints there will be two branded medals hanging, 1 blue (M) and 1 pink (F), if you are the first male or female to the checkpoint, grab the relevant medal for an amazing prize after the event! If you reach the checkpoint and the medals are gone - you still need to register your visit in the timing box to get the 10 points!

Mega Checkpoint - One of the checkpoints is the £££££ checkpoint! This will be shown by a usual checkpoint circle and a '£' displayed next to it! At this checkpoint will be 10 envelopes numbered 1-10. Grab one envelope and stash it somewhere safe as at prize giving, if your number is called out, you win £500 of SportsShoes vouchers! Again, if you reach the checkpoint and the envelopes are gone - you still need to register your visit in the timing box to get the 10 points!

Spot Prize Checkpoints: -There are two checkpoints on the course where everybody has the chance of winning the prize after the race. Visit these checkpoints and punch in for 10 points anyway however -
1 - The 'Barkley' - At this checkpoint you will find a book - rip out one page and keep it safe - if your page number is read out at prize giving you win a mega prize!
2 - 'Token Gesture' - At this checkpoint you will find a Quid Games token/keyring. This will be numbered, take one and keep it safe - if your number is called out at prize giving you win a fantastic bundle of prizes!

Make sure you keep any medals/pages/tokens safe until prize giving as you will need these to claim the prizes! Beware - if you return after the final cut off time of 7:15pm (in addition to losing lots of points! - You will also lose any medals/token/pages you may have collected out on the course!).

You must be at prize giving to receive any of the prizes including overall age cat prizes.

Further info and photos from the events here