Guide to event types Local Events (C3) The Kent Orienteering League (KOL) Formerly known as the Saturday Series these events are designed to cater for orienteers of all ages and abilities. There are 3 separate courses graded by length and difficulty. There are prizes in each category at the end of the season. These events are organised jointly by DFOK and Saxons. You can find out all the latest news, results and league tables for the KOL here. Frolics Series Part of a series of summer local events in the South East where everybody runs a course of a light green standard (relatively easy). Each competitor is given a handicap depending on age and experience. From the overall results after handicaps have been taken into account, each club's best 6 results count in the team competition. The best club over the Frolics series wins the Frolics Trophy. Larger Local Events Used to be called District Events. The most common type of event usually held on a Sunday. District events have courses for all ages and orienteering abilities. Most events will have about 7 courses of varying length and technical difficulty which are 'colour coded'. White (very easy for the young beginner) to Brown (for the experienced physically fit Orienteer). DFOK District events generally attract between 120 and 180 or so people. Regional Events (C2) Used to be called Badge Events. Regional events are less common, but higher quality, than local events. Regional events generally attract around 300 competitors and offer the full range of colour coded courses for experienced orienteers. For those used to running long or short courses according to age class, this table shows the relationship between colour coded course and age class. You may run any course you like but must run a course related to your age class to earn ranking or league points. Pre-entry is generally required as the maps have courses overprinted onto them. National Events (C1) The highest quality events staged. 5 or 6 per year and always including the JK Festival of Orienteering over the Easter weekend and the British Orienteering Championships. These events offer long and short courses for all age groups and will mostly take place outside the South East region. Klubb Events Sometimes social, sometimes training, sometimes relays or other o- competitions where we compete as a team, sometimes not orienteering at all!. Klubb Open Meeting These are DFOK's "committee" meetings but they're open to all. London Marathon DFOK provide race officials to marshal part of the route of the London Marathon. Once a year we look for volunteers to help marshal the route in Woolwich. It's a good social opportunity outside the normal Orienteering environment. Miscellaneous Event Descriptions Score Event In score orienteering, instead of having to find your way round a particular set of controls in a defined order in as short a time as possible, you have to visit as many controls as you can, in any order you like, in a fixed time. Some controls will score more points than others, depending on how far away or how difficult they are. There will be penalty points if you go over your allotted time. The person with the most points wins.