2006 Results

2006 Street Scramble at The Market – December 9

Final results – all scoring has been double checked for accuracy and 23 scores have been adjusted since the award ceremony. There is still one mistake in the table below: team Metsker Maps should be listed as a Mixed team, not Corporate. Those of you who are entitled to different ribbons than you received will be mailed your ribbons the second week in January. Many thanks to Patrick for compiling results for this event.

It was great fun basing Street Scramble at the Market Theatre. Alan of the Theatre staff worked the sound and lights to make the briefing and the awards quite theatrical. About 250 people actually showed up to this sold-out event. We raised $1653 for the Market Foundation during pre-registration, plus over $150 in event day contributions.

It rained continuously while folks were visiting checkpoints. After offering question sheets on rain-proof paper for 18 months, this was the event at which we tried to economize by using regular paper and trusting a friend's rosy weather forecast. Thus, some people's scores were reduced significantly because they needed to deal with disintegrating question sheets, sometimes needing to return to the Market Theatre to get a new one. Our apologies and it won't happen again.

Many thanks to Brian and Cameron Crawford for course design, Greg Adams for vetting, Bruce McAlister for refreshments, Lyn Smith for handling registration, Bob Reddick for heading up the scoring crew (and it was an extra tough task this time because of the wet paper), and Patrick Nuss for checking and formatting results. Thanks also to the following event-day volunteers: Brian and Cameron Crawford, Patrick Nuss, Davida Brooks, Patrick Tescher, Jana Dvorak, Anna Urbanova, Don Atkinson, Steve Frederickson, Pat Reddick, Eugene Wong, Linda Chen, and two volunteers from the Market Foundation. And a special thanks to the Market Theatre for providing a warm, dry event center.

Here is a race report from team Teriyaki Donut and one from More Cowbell.

Some results highlights: The top-scoring team overall was Metsker Maps, visiting all but four of the checkpoints. As our sponsor, Metsker was entitled to a free entry, and since none of their staff was available, they asked us to put together a team for them. Roger Michel of team MerGeo.com suggested Martin Buhr, not knowing that he was helping build a team that would defeat him and his partner Yumay Chang in the Mixed class (Metsker is incorrectly listed in the Corporate class below) by a solid 70 points.

We had a lot more women's teams than men's this time. Top men's team and second overall was More Cowbell with 860 points. Top women's team was Czech Power, comprising our finish timers Jana Dvorak and her daughter Anna, with 730 points.

As usual, the Family class had many entries. Congratulations to first place team The Oxy-Morons. This is Geoffrey Martin-Noble's last Street Scramble as part of a family team. Geoffrey had been away due to injury for most of the past year and it is good to have him back. The next four places were taken by Street Scramble regulars, all scoring very close to one another. Top Family newbie team was Isabelle-Jack Team with 440 points – great job!

Team SMD was the only Junior entry. This was Chris and Brandyn's first Street Scramble. Corporate team REACH: Hi-Liters returned quite early, perhaps due to a wet question sheet, yet with a score of 610 still won by 10 points over their Boeing colleagues, REACH: Bad Guys.

Among the Veteran (50+) teams, team Zola was the winning Mixed Veteran team with 710 points (tenth overall). Zola members Jack and Leslie Hamann are volleyball coaches at Garfield High. Top Veteran Women's team was Cheryl Marek with 580 points. Cheryl has joined us in years past but is usually unable to participate due to her other athletic passions; we were glad to have her with us again. And finally, top Veteran Men's team and, impressively, third overall, was solo team Enger Management with 870 points. Dave Enger usually scores impressively on bike; now we know that he can also score impressively on foot.

This is the first time that we have had a participation limit for Street Scramble. The limit was due to the capacity of the Market Theatre. It was great to reach capacity, though it was hard to turn away those who did not register in time. Clearly, Pike Place Market and Seattle's downtown at Christmas time were big attractions. Thank you for helping us raise so much money for the Market Foundation. We are already planning our 2007 Street Scramble at The Market for December 8.

• Whidbey Island Nerds
• REACH: Hi-Liters
• Teriyaki Donut
• Damage Incorporated (Gmaps route)

• Teriyaki Donut (Report, html)
• Everist, Party of 3 (Gmaps route)
• Exchange (Gmaps route)
• Whidbey Island Nerds

Puyallup Results

• The World Turns East: route using Gmaps pedometer – 19.44 miles
• REACH: Hi-Liters: routes using Gmaps pedometer – " This is was our intended route for Ballard (680 points), before my knee gave out and didn't want to run anymore. 17 miles for us is a bit of a stretch, so we might have had to take checkpoints 12 and 22 out to make it a mile shorter for 650 points. This is our actual route. We could have planned a shorter/smarter route for just 460 points, but I didn't think my knee would cause so many problems. However, we were really happy with the weather and the route along Golden Gardens! Very scenic."
• Whidbey Island Nerds

Ballard Results

Scroll down for tabulated results

In the 90 minute event, Linda Noble (Team M&M) won a stunning victory on foot, visiting 16 checkpoints and accumulating more points (420) than any other team, foot or bike. Sue Grigsby (Team Solo Sue), a local and new to Street Scramble, was right behind Linda in the Women's class, and third overall, with 360 points.

Second overall and first in the Men's class was Tyler Frederickson with 380 points. His dad, Steve Frederickson, won the Veteran (50+) Men's class with 290 points as Team Bun Pao Duh Cheuh.

Eleven teams entered the Family class on foot. Winning that class with 260 points was Team Larson (Brett & Larson Bucholz and Susan Halbach).

Congratulations to team Rogainer Slow (Bob & Pat Reddick) who won the Mixed Veteran class with 160 points, just 10 points more than each of the other two teams in that class. Congratulations also to local adventure race team Nuun -- Mud & Flesh Wounds for their second victory of the season in the Mixed class.

In the 3-hour race, Ben Hall cleaned the course once again on bike to earn the maximum 1000 points. Fastest on foot, earning 760 points, was team The World Turns East (Nikolay Nachev and Targo Tennisberg). Nikolay and Targo are training to enter the 16-hour Night & Day Challenge on foot. Just behind them were Men's team More Cowbell (John Zobel) and Veteran Men's team The Torrs (Greg Adams), both with 740 points.

Also on foot, Ardis Dull once again won the Veteran Women's class and also outscored all women with 440 points. Among Mixed teams, Whidbey Island Nerds won with 650 points (Arch-rival team Swiss Miss was mistakenly announced as the winner at the event.) A score of 650 was also earned by top-scoring Corporate team REACH: Hi-Liters, giving them their third victory of the season.

More 3-hour bike highlights: team Enger Management (Dave Enger) visited all checkpoints but took a 30-point late penalty for a total of 970. Team Fox Walkers (Steve Fox and Lori Walker) scored 800, winning the Mixed class, and team Teriyaki Donut (Greg and Omar Barnes) won the Family class with 640 points, with Omar on his trail-a-bike.

These are just a few highlights. We congratulate everyone who participated, especially Everett residents who had never done a Street Scramble or orienteering event before.

Acknowledgements

A huge thank you to Doug and Joan Beyerlein, who did the course design and a huge amount of community outreach and promotion. This event was their idea and it could not have taken place without them.

Thanks also to the many event day volunteers from the Cascade Orienteering Club: Jana Dvorak, Chase Moodie, Ana Urbanova, Bob and Pat Reddick, Janet Eriksson, Don and Libby Dermenstein, Ardis Dull, Mike Schuh, Nikolay Nachev, Linda Noble, Roger Michel, Yumay Chang, Lyn Smith, Dave Dummeyer, Marsha Majors, Bruce McAlister, and Marjorie Stratton. Thanks also to event day volunteers from our sponsor, Structural Design Associates: Chris and Linnea Covington, and Tracy Marconi. And thanks to those participants who stepped in to help when needed: Jeff Sloane, Chase and Lexi Jones, and the father and son (whose names I never got) who distributed T-shirts.

Everett Team Reports and Routes

Send us your routes and reports and we'll post them here. HTML links are preferred, but we'll take plain text and Word documents too.

• Teriyaki Donut: Another delightfully entertaining report.
• TRP – Critical Patches: route using Gmaps pedometer
• Whidbey Island Nerds: route using Gmaps pedometer. 660 points, 16.4 miles. "The only thing I would have done differently was to approach #54 from the north (along the water) between #13 and #36. This was how it was supposed to be done and I failed to recognize the red line as meaning uncrossable. This would have allowed us to get #11 and score 670 pts. There was not too much else that we could have done in the distance that we covered."
• The World Turns East: route using Gmaps pedometer – 19.05 miles
• REACH: Hi-Liters: route using Gmaps pedometer. "We ran about as perfect of a course as possible. We stuck with our original route plan all the way through, and we came back with just a few minutes to spare. No second guessing on this one. There were a few hiccups, though. We hit the corner of the wrong reservoir near Forest Park (5 minutes), and we were frustrated with the locked stairway and non-working elevator in the parking garage (1 minute). My knowledge of downtown Everett and Forest Park definitely helped us out!"