Hogeye Team Relay

[Clydesdale]

Anybody know the rules for this? Can each club have more than one team? Team members designated before race? Etc.

[Black Stallion]

YEAH IT IS called GREEK it takes lawyers and judges to define the rules

[PT]

Anybody know the rules for this? Can each club have more than one team? Team members designated before race? Etc.

Dude... this is from an earlier thread...

I am curious, how will the Hogeye Relay be scored? And will it have to be all male and all female teams i guess? Either way, GREAT idea...just curious how it will work.

As the scorekeeper-guy, Andrea asked me to answer this one.

Okay, folks, here is how the Grand Prix scoring will work at the Hogeye Marathon Relay Competition next spring....

First of all, there are NO individual points up for grabs. Only team points are on the line. It does not affect IronMan/IronWoman status. You do not have to be on a relay team at Hogeye to go for the 2011 Iron Award.

The scoring is pretty straight forward: First team across the finish line gets 20 points, second team gets 18 and so on as it will be considered a non-championship event. Male teams are scored separately from female teams, like always.

To earn team points, your team must be all male or all female. LRRC cannot cheat by having Leah on their men's team. Each teams' runners must all be in your club and must all be on your 2011 Grand Prix roster. And like all races, all members of the relay team must be signed up for the GP at least five days before the race. So no getting a Razorback ringer that you meet at the Expo to be on your team.

Clubs may have as many teams as they want. But only the first team from each club across the line factors into the scoring.
-For example, let's say that RVR has two men's teams:
RVR A: Bresette, Hink, Witt and Witt
RVR B: Billy, Aspel, D-Mac and Hunnicutt.

Then let's say RVR A wins the event, followed by LRRC, then CRC, RVR B, WRR, CCC, and ARK.
In this example the scoring would be: RVR 20, LRRC 18, CRC 16, WRR 14, CCC 12, and ARK 10. RVR B doesn't factor into the scoring and does not bump WRR, CCC, and ARK down at all.

So why have more than one team? Why not just stack your four fastest runners on one and be done with it? Because with multiple teams you'll have back-up in case of disaster. Let's say that Hink pulls his groin on the second leg of the relay and has to walk 4 miles to the next relay stop where Carter Witt is waiting to run the third leg. If that happened, let's assume RVR A would probably finish last. But RVR B can pick up the slack and get the club 3rd place rather than 6th.
Also, why not have more than one team? Running is fun and who wouldn't want to be on hand for the FIRST EVER GRAND PRIX RELAY COMPETITION!

That's it really. if you've got some leftover runners from each gender and want to put them on a co-ed team, more power to ya. Co-ed teams will not factor into the team scoring in any way, shape or form, but like what I said earlier - just being out there and running is reward enough

Oh yeah, one final thing:
Team names - you must have your club's name or initials in the team name. I don't want to have to figure out who everyone is if there are a bunch of names like "The Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse" and "The Four Musketeers", or any other random thing.
So like the example above, maybe "RVR A and RVR B". You can still be somewhat clever like if Sterka, McWool, Wags, and Eason called themselves the "Conway Running Club Men" then Lenser, Stone, Stan, and Sawyer might form their own relay team called the "Conway Running Club REAL Men". Just have the club name or initials in there somewhere please!

[Brian S-ski]

There is more information and a brief description of each relay leg on the Hogeye Relay competition on the Hogeye information page, here:
http://www.arkrrca.com/index.php?main=hogeyerelay

You'll definitely want your fastest guy/girl running the anchor leg.