Buchan Country Park Night Score

60 Minute Score
Entered: 2

A one-hour score event with a briefing at 19:25 and a mass start at 19:30. The main course will have 20 controls, numbered 90 to 109 which may be visited in any order. You score 10 points for each control visited, and lose 10 points for each minute, or part of a minute, late back.

To keep the faster people occupied for an hour, there will be bonus points available. You get an extra 10 points for consecutively punching 2 controls with the same last digit. Thus the sequence 90 – 101 – 100 – 91 scores 40 points for 4 controls, but 90 – 100 – 101 – 91 scores 60 because of the bonuses for punching 90 & 100 and 101 & 91 consecutively.

This scoring system is sometime known as dumbbells because if you draw lines between pairs of controls, they look like dumbbells. For this event there isn't a complete line as it clutters the map too much, but a short line has been attached to each control circle in the direction of its pair.

To reiterate, this is NOT one of those events where you have to visit all your 90’s before 100’s or vice versa. You can jump about between 90’s and 100’s as much you like and each control will score. If you are not going for bonus points, the control codes do not matter at all.

Senior British Orienteering member £6.00
Senior British Orienteering member offering to collect controls £3.00 (max 4, experienced night orienteers only please)
Senior non-member £8.00
Juniors (U21 on 31/12/2026) £2.00
SI dibber hire £1.00
Lost hire dibbers will be charged at £30.

Under-18’s must have the permission of parent or guardian to enter.

Entries before midnight on Monday 12th January are guaranteed a map - after this a limit will be set based on map availability.