Winter
Timing: Scoring is one point per second
early or late, from a grace period that depends
on your time at the immediately previous control,
but is always at least one second each way. At
the first control in a leg, the grace period is
one second each way. At each subsequent control
in the leg, the grace period is extended to 10
seconds closer to perfect time than your immediately
previous time. In other words, you never need
to make up more than 10 seconds between any two
controls. If you are late x seconds at one control,
the grace period at the next control will be from
one second early to (x - 10) seconds late, or
one second late, whichever is greater. If you
are early x seconds at a control, the grace period
at the next control will be from one second late
to (x - 10) seconds early, or one second early,
whichever is greater. In every case, the grace
period depends only on the immediately previous
control. As long as you are running close to perfect
time, this is effectively a perfect time event.
If you have a problem, however, and lose some
time (e.g. stuck in a snow bank) you don't need
to make up all of your time immediately, but you
are encouraged to work your way gradually back
towards perfect time. |