With the end of our Summer Adventure Race Series, the battle for our inaugural National Championship Jersey is really hotting up!

We have looked at the scores to date and summarised the state of play below for all of our categories.

Questars National Championship Jersey – a reminder

We will be awarding a National Championship Jersey to each of our Open, Female, Vets Open and Vets Female category winners. 

The Questars National Championship covers our Summer and Winter Series and runs from our first Summer event (usually held in March/April) to our last winter event (usually held in February). Everyone’s top-three Summer Series results and top-two Winter Series results count towards their overall score. There is a maximum of 1,000 points available at each of our Summer events and 800 points available at each of our Winter events.

Series points are calculated per individual participant / team member. If an individual’s team composition between races changes, their series points are unaffected. Individuals in teams with the same team members throughout the series will gain the same series points and ranking on the series leaderboard.

In the event of a tie at the top, head-to-head race results will be used to determine the series winner (i.e. who beat who in the races in which all the tied participants took part). If this is also tied (e.g. everyone beat each other once) then the combined times (only for these head-to-head races) will be used, with the person with the fastest cumulative time being the series champion.

Race scores are converted into series points and series points from different races are added together for each person, to give their series score.

Series points are calculated by dividing an individual’s race score by the overall race winner’s score and multiplying by 1,000 for Summer and 800 for Winter.

An example is shown below:

Calculating series points like this improves consistency throughout the series by minimising the impact of variable conditions between races which are beyond the course planner’s control e.g. the weather.

Vets Scoring – a reminder

Our Vets category starts at 50 and an individual’s score is adjusted above this age with individuals receiving a 1.5% increase for every year that they are over 50. How this works is set out below:

All team members take the age of their oldest team member and ages are taken as of 1 March each year.

The state of play at the end of our Summer Series

With a maximum of 1,600 points still to play for, there is a lot to still be decided in our Winter Series and it will be fascinating to see how it all plays out! We have looked at each of the categories below.

Female

Katherina Pedersen leads the way with 2,682 points followed by Helen Chapman, Emma Gill and Julie Kingsbury. 

Open

Tom Davies leads the way with 2,896 points with another nine racers all within 500 points of the jersey.

Female Vets

Ella Pyman leads the way with an adjusted score of 2,336 points from Pollie Boyle, Maggie Salter and Liz Jones.

Open Vets

Nick Gracie leads the way with an adjusted Series score of 2,801 points with five other racers all within 300 points of the jersey.