2019 Season Course Designers

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VOLUNTEERS WANTED

Similar to last year (http://forums.sascsolo.com/index.php?topic=1095.0) the executive would like to get some more of the SASC Members involved in designing courses for the 2019 season. Designing a course is challenging but rewarding, a good learning experience and of course you have the satisfaction of watching others try to master your vision 


Schedule for the Season
1. May 11 Saturday - Airdrie Airpark - SASC Points Event #1 - Ryan C
2. May 26 Sunday – Fort Macleod - SASC Points Event #2 - Tom G
3. June 8 Saturday – Fort Macleod - SASC Points Event #3 - Recycled 2016 FM Course Map
4. June 15 Saturday - Westerner - SASC Points Event #4 - Recycled Course Map
5. June 22 Saturday - Fort Macleod – SASC Points Event #5 - Adam S
6. June 27 Thursday – Airdrie Airpark – SASC Members Only Practice
7. July 6 Saturday – Airdrie Airpark - SASC Points Event #6 - Stephen H
8. July 26, 27, 28 - Fort Macleod - Canadian Nationals Richard B (Day 1) & Tom G (Day 2)
9. August 3 Saturday - Westerner - SASC Points Event #7
10. August 10 Saturday – Fort Macleod - SASC Points Event #8
11. August 15 Thursday – Airdrie Airpark – SASC Members Only Practice
12. August 25 Sunday – Airdrie Airpark - SASC Points Event #9 - Ryan C
13. September 15 Sunday - Fort Macleod – SASC Points Event #10 - Adam S
14. September 22 Sunday - Fort Macleod - SASC Points Event #11 - Reijo S
15. September 29 Sunday – Airdrie Airpark #12 - Stephen H
16. October 6 Sunday - Fort Macleod – SASC Points Event #13 - Gabe N
Updated:  May 17, 2019


Things to Consider
- If you've never designed a course before be aware that it takes time, more time than you think. Between reading some of the relevant material on course design (below), sketching out your original idea, refining it, checking to make sure it's safe and then physically setting up the course can easily take 5 hours.
- If you agree to do a course design you must also be willing & able to help set up the course, this is usually done the day before for YYC events or the morning of for FM & Westerner events.
- Your course design will need to be reviewed & approved by our safety steward (James) and/or one of the club executives (or designate) 2 weeks prior to the event to make sure it's first & foremost safe but also to make sure it follows some of the basic rules (minimum spacing, laydown cones, etc.). A course that's approved on paper can also need final tweaks once actually laid out.
- Only 2019 SASC Members can design courses, yet another perk of being a member, if you don't have yours yet click here: http://forums.sascsolo.com/index.php?topic=1309.0


Course Design Basics
I would strongly recommend that you read the following guide from Roger Johnson, it's a very comprehensive and well put together guide on some of the do's & don'ts of autocross course design:
https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AEIkG1f04t5JU60&cid=F14DBDD81716A051&id=F14DBDD81716A051%21100426&parId=F14DBDD81716A051%2196160&o=OneUp

Also our very own Stephen H has put together the following guide which is very helpful. You can find it at the google drive below along with a folder containing some previous course designs to help put future maps in perspective.
https://1drv.ms/f/s!AlGgFhfYvU3xhe8gQiQbV_Ti3klTrQ


If you're interested in designing a course please post in this thread and let us know which event you'd like to design a course for, we'll get some blank course maps sent to you.

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A separate post for 2019 event chairs will be created next month some time

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We got a big dump of old course maps from the CSCC, which I've copied into the folder linked at the end of Tom's post above: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AlGgFhfYvU3xhe8gQiQbV_Ti3klTrQ

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Bump, any takers. If nobody else steps up I'll put my name in the hat for designing the first event in FM.

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Stephen H has volunteered to design the course for the June 2 event

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I'll do some random ones if you like.

I am also gathering past course designs to post for reference.  I believe I have most of the FM and YYC course designs since 2009.

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I'll do some random ones if you like.

I am also gathering past course designs to post for reference.  I believe I have most of the FM and YYC course designs since 2009.

Sounds good, just let me know which date.

If you have past course designs you're willing to share please email them to Stephen so he can get them up on the Google Drive.

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Course design for the first event is done, now with safety steward for review.

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Schedule updated to reflect the latest

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Updated the course map template to add Westerner, and changed the scale since this year's sites are smaller. Location is still the same: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AlGgFhfYvU3xhe8gQiQbV_Ti3klTrQ.

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Added a template for Airdrie in a separate document, since Airdrie's so much bigger than Westerner that there isn't one scale that works well for both.

Also tweaked the look of the Fort Macleod template, although now that I'm done I don't think it was an improvement. :|

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Put me down for June 8.

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Done