Update - 21st December 2016

"REMINDER! All teams that are registered and invited to confirm their entry by making a payment during any Phase, must do it within a period of 3 weeks. If you fail to do it, your team will lose its status and will be moved to the end of the waitlist for reconsideration during Phase 3. 
For more information, please see Bulletin 2: http://wrc2017.rogaining.lv/en/bulletin-2

Do not miss to use Early Bird entry fee!" From the event web site - http://wrc2017.rogaining.lv/en/

Up date - 3rd December 2016

"Dear councillors [IRF],

Please inform all rogainers in your countries via national websites and e-mail lists about the opening of entries to WRC2017 as from today.
For online entry form please see http://wrc2017.rogaining.lv/en/
Phase 1 of entries runs from 1 December to 14 December 2016.
Pre-qualified rogainers (http://pqe.rogaining.org/qualified.html) shall register during this phase to secure their preferred entry status.
All others can register as well.
The entry limit is 1000.
Lauri Leppik
WRC2017 IRF Event Advisor"

End 3rd December 2016 Update

Registration for World Rogaining Championships 2017 Latvia - WRC2017 Latvia -opens 1st December 2016. Details regarding the entry process have been puiblished by the organisers on the event web site - http://wrc2017.rogaining.lv/en/ .

 

The rogaine is planned for the 18th and 19th August 2017. The organisers have published very inviting video and photographs of the rogaine area.

 

The 2016 North American Championships were held last weekend in the Sierra National Forest near Shaver Lake, CA, USA. Results can be found here. This was a qualifying event for up coming World Rogaining Championships.

 

And over on the East Coast of the USA a unique variant of rogaining, the CNYO REGAINE XII Letchworth State Park, Portage, NY was held on the 20 & 21st August 2016, the last leg of the CNYO "GAINING" Trifecta Cup 2016; results are here and here  respectively.

 

Congratulations to the athletes, volunteers and organisers involved with both events.

The 14th World Rogaining Championships 2016 has been run and won. The organisers have published the results, maps, photographs, reports - wrap up and have called for feedback. By all accounts the event was an outstanding rogaine hosted in arid Central Australia at the Ross River Resort, east of Alice Springs Northern Territory Australia. 

 

"RESULTS - ...commanding performance from Chris Forne and Greig Hamilton (NZL) winning with 4400 points. Second place overall and 1st mixed open to Rob and Kathryn Preston (AUS) on 3880 points. Women's open winners were Georgia Whitla and Lara Prince (NZL) with 3210 points. " Congratulations to these and all the other athletes.

The map for the 14th World Rogaining Championship 2016 has been made available - the Victorian Rogaining Association ae hosting the map for the event organisers -

http://vra.rogaine.asn.au/wrc2016/docs/RedCentreRogaine_LR.pdf

- so where would you have gone. The WRC's have been running for about eighteen and half hours as this article is published. The Event web site is located here https://wrc2016.rogaining.com.au/ and the event Facebook page is here https://www.facebook.com/2016WRC/?fref=nf&pnref=story .

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