Create Relay Courses
To set courses for a relay, do the following steps:
- Create a New Course Setting Project.
- Add Course Setting Objects (e.g. Start, Controls, Finish) to the project.
- Create a New Course. Choose Relay as the Course type and define the number of legs.
- Create a New Class. Define the number of teams and allocate start numbers to the class.
- Add the Course Object to a Course. You have special options for the relay.
Insert a Team Variation
A team variation means that runners of different teams go to different controls. OCAD allocates the chosen amount of controls regularly to the teams, but, to make the relay fair, each runner of the team get a different variation (e.g. Runner 1 goes to control 63, Runner 2 goes to control 55 and Runner 3 goes to control 125). The number of possible variations is given by the number of legs of the relay. If a relay consists of three legs, you will have to make three variations, so that the relay is fair. Although, variations can be equal to eachother (if for example you want to place only two controls instead of three), in this case the equal variations are visited more often than the other one. In any case, OCAD will force you to keep the relay fair (i.e. all teams have run the same leg variations at the end of the relay).
- Mark a position in the relay course where you want to insert the variation.
- Click the Insert button in the Course Object Box on the ride side of the window.
- The Insert Course Object dialog appears.
- Choose the Team Variation option.
- Click the OK button.
- The team variation
appears in the course box.
- You can add controls to the variation by marking the correct position and double clicking them.
- The variation for the example above looks as follows:
- It is also possible to leave a variation empty. This means that two runners in a team of three will have to get a control and one runner leaves it out.
- - OCAD will tell you with a warning message when you are trying to create something unfair.
Insert a Leg Variation
A leg variation means that there is a variation of the legs within the same team. This can be used for when you have a relay with three legs but the second leg is shorter than the other two legs. In the example above the first and the third runner goes from control 92 to 87, then to 85 and finally to control number 84, whereas the second runner goes from control number 92 to 107 and then directly to 84, which is the shorter leg. All runners who run the second leg of the relay will have this shorter variation. It is also possible to make team or additional leg variations within a leg variation itself. The same which applies to the team variation, applies also to the leg variation: OCAD will force you to keep the relay fair (i.e. all teams have run the same leg variations at the end of the relay).
- Mark a position in the relay course where you want to insert the variation.
- Click the Insert button in the Course Object Box on the ride side of the window.
- The Insert Course Object dialog appears.
- Choose the Leg Variation option.
- Drag identical legs to the same column in the table.
- Click the OK button when finished.
- The leg variation
appears in the course box. The pink numbers indicate the leg number.
- You can add controls to the variation by marking the correct position and double clicking them.
- The variation for the example above looks as follows:
- It is also possible to leave a variation empty. This means that some legs have additional controls where other legs go directly to the next control in common.
- - OCAD will tell you with a warning message when you are trying to create something unfair.