HAVOC League 2025/26 2025/26 season

19th Jul 24

The HAVOC league is an annual individual competition for HAVOC members and is based on events during the summer to spring seasons. The scoring algorithm for the competition is given below.

There is also a Participation League where club members can score points for attending a range of events from the EA League and SE League calendars plus UKOL (UK orienteering league), and other local events including GLOSS (Greater London orienteering summer series).

The latest standings from both leagues can be found in the Spreadsheet attached to each month's newsletter, the latest version of which is here.

The current league fixtures are:

Historic winners

THE HAVOC Orienteering League

Aims

• To increase club entries in some of the premier team fixtures of the local calendar
• To give a competition that is separate to the club champs that takes into account a wide range of different orienteering disciplines, and is spread across the year, where missing one event doesn’t adversely affect the member

Scoring

• Best 14 of 18 events to count, so that members don’t have to enter all events over the season
• Aligned to the EA League and SE League scoring algorithms, so that members when entering the HAVOC league will also benefit the club in scoring for these club based competitions
• At each event the highest scoring runner will have their score rebased to 100 points, with other runners scoring in proportion
• Three categories of events (Traditional - Team, Traditional-Non Team, Non Traditional).  Max number of events (6,4,4).  Transfers can be made from other category at 75% of points scored

Event selection

Main criteria

• Three categories of events - Team events, Traditional Line events, and other events (Score, Sprint, Urban, Night)
• Maximum number of events in each category (6,4,4)
• If an individual doesn't have eough runs in a particular category, but surplus runs in another, the points are transferred, subject to a penalty of 25%
• In this way all orienteering disciplines are covered, as well as the main leagues that HAVOC are affiliated to (EAL, SEL, GLOSS)
• Include the Compass Sport Cup Preliminary (and final if relevant)
• Cover the premier team events in the season (SE Night, SE Score, SE Relay, EA Equivalents if take place) As SE events are not ratified for EA memebers, this is not an automatic criteria for these events
• Spread throughout the year, but ideally finishing before the club dinner (May – Apr)
• Ideally avoid weekend with other SWELL, HAVOC, SE League or EA League events, or Premier UK events
• Avoid the Club Champs event, and that weekend
• Coverage should ideally be at least 2 from each of our most local clubs (SOS, CHIG, DFOK, LOK) and at least 1 each from our next nearest (HH, SUFFOC, WAOC, SAX, SLOW).
• Local (EAOA and SEOA) events attracting more than five club runners will be added into the league if not already included.  The maximum number of events taken into account for the league scoring will not change

So that gives us:

• Compass Sport Cup Qualifier
• 2 EA League (from SOS, SUFFOC, WAOC)
• 2 SE League (from CHIG, DFOK, HH, SLOW, LOK, SAX)
• 2 SWELL (from SOS, CHIG)
• 2 GLOSS
• 2 Urban, 2 night, 2 score, 1 sprint (replace with traditional forest if not possible) (cover from local clubs, not already covered above)
• 2 Additional traditional forest
   

Scoring

Where an event does not offer the target course shown above, the next course down will be the target. e.g. Sh Blue -> Green