ELO Club Championships 2024
Saturday 9th November at Vogrie
Ian Rowland was ELO's first Adult Male champion in 2019
ELO’s club championships for 2024 were held in combination with Interlopers staging of the Scottish Score Championships at Vogrie on Saturday 9th November. Last year’s overall champions, Joel and Emily Atkinson, were both absent at other events so there was a chance for new names to shine.
Congratulations to all of our ELO champions for the coming year …
- female club champion – Kirsty McArthur – a new champion – with Vik Baillie very close behind
- male club champion – Evgueni Chepelin – a previous champion – with Robin Strain close behind
- junior W14 and M14 – Jonah Henderson
- junior W12 and M12 – no competitiors in this category this year
- junior running Yellow – W10 and M10 – Magnus Madhra with Magnus Baillie close behind
Trophies will be ordered and presented at a future event – hopefully at the Festive Frolic on 28th December which will be held at Vogrie again.
Congratulations also to three club members who became Scottish Score Champions: Felix Remai, Robin Strain and Sheila Strain. Kirsty and Evgueni each came 3rd in their respective categories.
Advance information
ELO’s club championships for 2024 will be held in combination with Interlopers staging of the Scottish Score Championships at Vogrie on Saturday 9th November.
Entries close at midnight on Sunday 3rd November. There may be some EOD but you should enter in advance to be sure of running your correct course.
Champions will be decided in five categories …
- female club champion – W16 and above – born in 2009 or earlier
- male club champion – M16 and above – born in 2009 or earlier
- junior running LG – W14 and M14 – born in 2010 or 2011
- junior running Orange – W12 and M12 – born in 2012 or 2013
- junior running Yellow – W10 and M10 – born in 2014 or later*
This is the first time that ELO champions will be decided at a Score orienteering event rather than on traditional linear courses. As this is also the Scottish Score championships you have the chance of becoming a Scottish champion and an ELO champion – two trophies for one good run!
ELO male and female overall club champions will be decided by using the British Orienteering ranking points system. This lets us compare performances fairly across all the senior courses. You don’t have to be a BOF member to win the trophy as we can calculate what your ranking points would have been if you were a BOF member.
The junior winners are simpler to decide. For the W/M14 and W/M12 it will be just the highest score amongst the eligible runners on the 40-minute Score course. For W/M10 it will be the fastest unassisted runner on the Yellow course*.
*For safety a junior can be shadowed on Yellow but if the shadower ends up helping then the junior should be declared non-competitive at Download.
Trophies will be presented at a future club event to ELO club champions.
Please note that as an ELO member you do qualify as a Scot for the purposes of the Scottish Championship – “All members of Scottish open clubs (where that club is their main or first club) shall
automatically be recognised as Scots”. Fabian4 currently omits this from its list of eligibility criteria. The omission has been reported.