BK Finish Split Handicap

Since the Australian Orienteering Champs in Queensland in 2008, BK have been running a fun finish split handicap at the major Bush-O carnivals. Even if you never have even a faint chance at placing in your class, you still stand a good chance in the BK finish split championships.

The finish split is the time it takes you to run/stumble/hobble/crawl from the last control to the finish control. The idea grew out of one of the former M21ASledge side competitions, but modified into a handicap to cater for everyone in the club.

Your handicap is calculated from all the times where I have been able to glean your finish split. Of course sometimes if they employ multiple last controls for different classes, I can't use those results. All events are weighted equally in calculating your handicap. The more events you run, the harder it gets for you to sneakily manipulate the
results, and so to place you truly do have to best your more average efforts. The fastest real BK split time is used as the comparison basis for
your ongoing handicap multiplier average. You can see this in the table, if you want to get technical. You do have a better chance of winning the handicap the first few times you
run before your handicap settles down, but this isn't such a bad thing anyway.

Apologies if I have missed anyone out by accident; it's all very informal ! From time to time other non-BK people are very keen to participate in the BK handicap, so I include them, but their placings are shown in [brackets] as they aren't actually in BK. Of course if they want to have their names un-bracketed, they can always join BK ...

The latest Easter 3 days championships held near Canberra last week have been included in the handicap. No attempt has been made to compensate for the fact that Day 1 and Day 3 were both grueling uphill final legs.

I often set the fastest BK actual split time, but it's interesting to see Peter Collins is keen to take over that privilege. James Robertson, BG not BK, who also often used to set the ultimate time appears to have slipped this carnival in the fastest stakes. Of course this Easter there was also the coveted Voice_Of_The_Forest fastest finish split to aim for, but unfortunately there was always someone a second or two faster.

Congratulations to handicap first-timers Ann Robinson and Brian O'Callaghan who both caused some surprise upsets in the final handicap results.

Full BK Handicap finish chute results - scroll right to see Easter 2010 and down for the first 3.

Bruce Paterson