{"id":2107,"date":"2025-02-19T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2025-02-19T09:35:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T08:35:31","slug":"relay-variation-allocation-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/relay-variation-allocation-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Relay Variation Allocation 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocad.com\/wiki\/ocad\/en\/index.php?title=Create_a_New_Course#Relay_Variation_Allocation_2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">relay variation allocation 2025<\/a> uses a new algorithm to assign the variants to the teams and each runner. The algorithm prefers variants with a larger number of different variations compared to the other teams (e.g. ABAB is preferred to ABAA if AAAA and BBBB are already used).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All new course setting files now use the relay variation allocation 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the course setting file was created with an OCAD version older than 2020.7.11 (February 2025) you can choose if you like to change to the new allocation algorithm by clicking the <em>Switch to relay variation allocation 2025<\/em> button. Please note that there is no undo and that already printed maps or exported IOF xml files for the result software will become invalid!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RelayAllocation2025.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RelayAllocation2025.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RelayAllocation2025.png 580w, https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RelayAllocation2025-300x155.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The text <em>Relay variation allocation 2025 used<\/em> is shown after the switch or when a file was created with an OCAD version 2020.7.11 or later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RelayAllocation2025_Confirmation.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RelayAllocation2025_Confirmation.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RelayAllocation2025_Confirmation.png 580w, https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RelayAllocation2025_Confirmation-300x155.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The relay variation allocation 2025 uses a new algorithm to assign the variants to the teams and each runner. The algorithm prefers variants with a larger number of different variations compared to the other teams (e.g. ABAB is preferred to ABAA if AAAA and BBBB are already used). All new course setting files now use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,35,46,1],"tags":[8,59],"class_list":["post-2107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ocad-11","category-ocad-12","category-ocad-2018","category-uncategorized","tag-course-setting","tag-orienteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2117,"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions\/2117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}