Competition Course // Poole

An in-depth exploration of everything involved in Competition Route Setting. This event takes in the entire prep, planning, setting and running of an event, including setting a Qualifying Tour, Semi-Finals Round and Finals Round for the annual Armed Forces competition.

The first 3 days of the event will focus on the key items of preparation and planning, moving into setting and testing the three rounds of competition. The last 2 days of the course are event days, where participants will be keeping a watchful eye on the qualifying round to allow for last minute tweaks to the Semi Finals and Finals rounds on the final day. Competition route setting is full of surprises, so this can mean some late evenings setting and last minute decision making.

The course will be lead by Ben Norman (Certified National Competition Route Setter), Cailean Harker (Certified National Competition Route Setter and recent setter of…