JJ sent us copies of the relay results. I put them on the OK home page. I didn't try to make the formatting look good, but you can read them. The results are at:

http://www.geocities.com/okansas.geo/relay.html

-- Michael (meglin@juno.com), April 19, 2000

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Response to Relay results know available at the OK home page!

OK is cool. The guy in charge of the main NEOC page got the results sent to him on Monday evening, and I sent everything out to the people who run the secondary Troll Cup page this morning, but OK is the first to have the results up.

So... maybe somebody should send a note to Debbie Newell asking her to put a headline on the USOF pages saying that the results of the US Relay Champs, hosted by NEOC, are now available on the OK web page. :-)

-- J-J (jjcote@juno.com), April 19, 2000.

Response to Relay results know available at the OK home page!

So... maybe somebody should send a note to Debbie Newell asking her to put a headline on the USOF pages saying that the results of the US Relay Champs, hosted by NEOC, are now available on the OK web page. :-)

Hmmm. I'd be afraid the "average USOF member" might start hitting the OK web pages. That might not be the best idea.

-- Michael (mike_eglinski@kcmo.org), April 19, 2000.

Response to Relay results know available at the OK home page!

Now that NEOC has posted the results of its own relays chumps sans the 4-point team results, wild rumors are flying across the o' community! Could there be a move in the works to disqualify SVO's illegal runner? People are asking questions and the public deserves an answer! Where do the o' pundits stand on this issue? Many seem to be taking a "wait and see" approach, which is simply a nice way of saying they are covering themselves carefully. It will be interesting to watch in the coming days to see what comes of this most controversial of issues!

-- Mook (everett@psi.edu), April 20, 2000.

Response to Relay results know available at the OK home page!

Ah, if only there were so much intrigue! No, as far as I can tell, it's just a matter of simple incompetence. We worked so hard to get everything right for the meet, then I got the results all spiffed up on Monday evening, and sent them to the webmaster (since I don't have access to put them on the web myself). 60 hours later, they had finally been butchered adequately for posting, I guess. In addition to the 4-point teams being left off, there are also a bunch of oopsies regarding place numbers on the Troll Cup results. (They were fine when I mailed them in, but *somebody* found in necessary to sort them differently.) I'm doing what I can to get this straightened out.

As far as I know, there has been no further action on the SVO eligibility question (and as chairman of the Grievance Committee, I'd be the first to hear).

So I was talking to Jeff Saeger (course setter) last night, and he asked if we had checked punches on the relay cards. I said we had, and he wondered if we had caught Gene Wee's card, since he knew for a fact that Mr. Wee had mispunched (Jeff was hanging around Orange #5, I guess). I pulled out the stack and doublechecked; Mean Gene's card was (of course) perfect.

-- J-J (jjcote@juno.com), April 21, 2000.

Response to Relay results know available at the OK home page!

Jeff Saeger (course setter) last night, and he asked if we had checked punches on the relay cards. I said we had, and he wondered if we had caught Gene Wee's card, since he knew for a fact that Mr. Wee had mispunched

Jeff spreads a vicious rumor about Mean Gene...and, what Jeff "knew for a fact" turns out to be entirely incorrect. As an OKer, this sort of mud-slinging disgusts me. It is, in fact, even worse that the "dissing" we typically get from ONA.

-- Michael (mike_eglinski@kcmo.org), April 21, 2000.

Response to Relay results know available at the OK home page!

Who is this 'Jeff' person and what club does he belong to?

-- Mook (everett@psi.edu), April 21, 2000.

Response to Relay results know available at the OK home page!

Jeff did see me at 5. I read the code and realized I was at 5 not 4. I then went to 4 AND then returned to #5, in the proper order - and punching in the appropriate boxoes. A 2 minute error! Certainly no advantage. . .

-- Mean Gene (gmw@ukans.edu), April 22, 2000.

Oh dear. Let's not be too hard on Jeff (of NEOC), he did a lot of work to make this meet happen. And when I doublechecked the punches (maybe even while I was still looking for the card), he did allow as how Gene might have punched properly eventually. He certainly didn't dispute my findings. And he felt that he himself had erred by setting the course in a way that made it so easy to accidentally get to #5 before #4.

-- J-J (jjcote@juno.com), April 23, 2000.

Jeff did no wrong, other than being an enthusiastic orienteer/course setter. He was out taking action photos. He actually was trying to help me by saying, "are you at the right control?" I normally check the control numbers, so his statement reenforced the fact that I was indeed at the wrong control. Tunnel vision (not looking just a half-inch off on my map) and sloppy compass work pulled me to the right - seeing #5 before getting to #4. Mook, I'll do more o'technique training next year so I won't get flustered seeing other people on the course. We certainly have more questions of Janet Reno's night O' actions than Jeff's walk in the woods. - Not-so-mean Gene

-- Mean Gene (gmw@ukans.edu), April 23, 2000.