December 12, 2008: Unofficial 2008 Rankings have been posted. Rankings will become "official" after a review period which will end on January 15, 2009. Corrections should be reported before the end of the review period, and changes to the rankings after the review period will be at the discretion of the Rankings Committee.
Juniors Andrew Childs, Ethan Childs, Meg Parson, Masha Velichko, and John Hensley Williams had strong performances in 2008 as each of them placed in the top three in two different age classes.
November 3, 2008: The November 5 rankings reflect the addition of two event days, and the deletion of nine event days.
The 2008 ranking year is winding down. The last A-meet of the year is being held by BAOC on the weekend of November 14-16, and the last three rankings days of the year will be added shortly after. In the meantime, please review the posted rankings, and let me know if you find any errors. A reminder that you must be a USOF member sometime between January 1-November 15, 2008 to receive an official USOF rankings, and to be eligible for rankings patches.
October 7, 2008: Updated rankings have been posted. Added: CNYO North American Championships (4 events). Deleted: 2007 WCOC Sprints (2 events), and the 2007 UNO Boulder Dash (2 events).
Congratulations to Alison Campbell (DVOA) and Tori Borish (COC). Excellent performances by Alison and Tori at the North American Championships vaulted each of them to an overall rankings score of 80+ in F-20 (Green).
Sharon Crawford (F60+) continues to top all competitors, male and female, in the Brown course rankings.
August 25, 2008: Updated rankings have been posted. Added: Junior's 2008 Northwest Forest Frenzy and 2008 United States Championships (2 events each). Deleted: 2007 Colorado Five-Day (4 events).
July 2, 2008: Rankings to include the BAOC Tahoe meet, and dated June 23, 2008, have been posted.
A revised schedule for updates is:
August 29 - add NWFF/JR (2), add LROC (2), drop RMOC (4)
October 18 - add CNYO/NA Champs (3), drop WCOC (2), drop UNO (2)
November 14 - add NEOC (2), drop BAOC (2), drop CAOC (2), drop LAOC (2)
December 15 - drop QOC (3), add BAOC (3)
May 29, 2008: Rankings to include the DVOA Chasing the Star/US Team Trials have been posted.
The tentative schedule for updates is:
June 27 - add BAOC meet (3)
August 15 - add NWFF/JR meet(2), add LROC meet (2), drop RMOC meet (4)
October 4 - add CNYO/NA Champs (3)
October 31 - add NEOC meet (2), drop BAOC (2), drop CAOC (2), drop (LAOC 2)
November 21 - drop QOC meet (3), add BAOC (3?)
May 10, 2008: Updated rankings have been posted. Lots of changes - added the 2008 ROC US Middle Distance Championships (1 event), and the 2008 USMAOC West Point A-Meet (3 events). Also deleted the 2007 HVO A-Meet (2 events), the 2007 USMAOC West Point A-Meet (2 events), and the 2007 SMOC US Team Trials (3 events).
April 8, 2008: Flying Pig XII rankings have been posted.
March 24, 2008: Flying Pig: Each of the four events will be in the USOF rankings. For the Sprint, you are ranked in the Class which you register for, even if several courses are grouped together on one course. Example: Red and Blue classes are running the same Sprint course. You usually run as M45+, but you registered for the sprint events as M-21+. You will be ranked as M-21+.
As always, you can request that an event not be included in the USOF rankings, if the request is made before you start. This does not affect how you are scored at the meet. Requests must be made in writing to either Valerie Meyer or Sandy Fillebrown.
Relay Champs: Anyone successfully completing a US Champs Relay leg is eligible for a credit day. Credit days are only considered and used for the official end of year USOF rankings, and they are only applied if you do not have the minimum 4 event days on a course at the end of the year.
Junior Junior Relay participants are not eligible for a credit day.
March 3, 2008: Rankings have been posted with a date of April 1, 2008. No, it is not an April Fool's prank. There are only events dropping off in March (nine days total), so I have processed the rankings to reflect the dropped events all at once. The next change will be the addition of the four ranking events from the 2008 Flying Pig.
A note about the April 1, 2008 White rankings. Between March 2007 and February 2008, there were 16 White event days which went unranked because there were less than the required minimum of three M/F-10 and/or M/F-12 participants. We are experimenting with calculating the rolling rankings to include White events as long as there are two starters, of which at least one has a legal time. If it appears to give valid results we will consider making it permanent.
February 26, 2008: Rankings have been updated with the addition of the events from NTOA's Texas Stampede & Interscholastic Championships (2) and TSN's Western State & Intercollegiate Championships (3).
Additionally, JWOC rankings have been posted. These rankings include the Varsity courses from the Interscholastic Championships scored as M/F-20.
In the next couple of days, I will also post the rankings effective April 1, 2008. I will be rolling off the nine events from March 2-April 1, 2007, and the rankings will reflect the status of the M/F-20 competitors going into the Flying Pig weekend. The 2008 Flying Pig events are the last events which will be included in the rankings used to select the JWOC team.
February 11, 2008: Rankings for the NTOA Interscholastic Championships & Stampede and the TSN Western State & Intercollegiate Championships will be processed together and posted by the end of February.
January 23, 2008: Rankings have been posted for the first two A-meets of 2008.
Was this the first time that two A-meets were held on the same weekend?
With the start of the new year, I have done something a bit differently in reference to moving those competing on the same course as in 2007, but who are in a different age group. Last year, I waited until the person had competed in the new age group before moving all their results to the new age group. This year, in the interest of making things a bit easier for me, I have moved the results over now.