Randalls DQ'ed in Controversial Night-O Decision

Ok, so it wasn't controversial, but I had to get your interest somehow. Last Saturday marked the 2006 Night-O put on by the Georgia Orienteering Club. Proving that two heads are NOT necessarily better than one, the Randalls displayed poor judgement and a case of "I thought YOU were looking at the map" and ended up getting themselves DQ'ed for running overtime on the course.

Starting with a fairly clean run of the points on the west side of the creek, they opted to cross the creek to attempt the points on the east side, unaware that they had a scant 30 minutes to make it back to the finish. After considerable delay in finding a reasonable place to cross they realized they had missed one easy point and continued on the trail up a monster climb to obtain another point. After finding this point it was a mad dash back to the finish. Not carefully looking at the trails and terrain on the map, they were lulled into complacency as they ran along the wrong trail for a good distance before heading into the woods to whack down to the creek. When they did not immediately hit the creek, it then became apparent that things had gone very wrong. Convinced now that they would not make the cutoff, they carefully figured out where they were and headed back to the creek crossing and main trail system, and ultimately the finish. It was a devastating loss as the Randalls were upset by the Gobles, whose "No crossing the creek" handicap actually played out in their favor.