Persona: Charlie

Charlie lives in a little town in Jutland. Age 17, just started in high school, loves to play computer games and does it as often as possible (that’s when he is not going in school and don’t have a lot of homework to-do)  – except on Tuesdays. On Tuesdays he goes to Orienteering. He doesn’t really love it; but his parents have told him to go. He has been an orienteer for almost 3 years and thinks he is pretty good even though he always can be found between the lasts on the result list. Charlie has never been really integrated among the young runners in the club.

 

Persona: Annie

Annie lives in a big city on Zealand. Age 15, she only uses the computer for email, homework,  signing up for orienteering competitions and analyzing splittimes, maps and routes afterwards. Participates in training 3 times a week and participates every weekend in competitions. She loves Orienteering. Annie can’t get enough orienteering, her classmates calls her a real O-nerd – she finds that a great compliment. She has been an orienteer since she could walk. Annie can always be found in top 3 on the result list. Annie always participates in training camps and finds her very best friends among orienteer’s from all over the country.

 

 

 

Scenario: Charlie becomes CFLive

At one of the Tuesday training sessions the trainer tells about a new initiative -  CFLive, he has never heard about it before; but now he realizes that this is his opportunity. When he gets home he turns on his computer. Normally he would have surfed movies on YoutTube; but today something else has to happen. At www.CFLive.dk Charlie reads with great pleasure – “this is genius” he thinks. Finally has someone opened their eyes for guys like him. He signs up as a user, enters his real name, his email, his club, and the number of his SI-Card (he could also have entered the number of his EMIT-card if he had had one). When he has finished registration he receives an email from registration@CFLive.dk and clicks a link in it to confirm the registration. He gets a message that he is now registered as a user on CFLive.dk and that he now can start signing up for competitions.

 

 

Scenario: Charlie signs up for his first CFLive Relay

Charlie finds the first event at www.CFLive.dk it’s a 2 person relay, it looks real cool with a great mix of difficult routes in CF and easy sprint distances in real Live. 15 teams has already signed up. Charlie was just about to cry when he realized that he has no-one to team up with, when he sees the “open list”. He can sign up on the “open list” if he has no teammate. Charlie finds out that there’s already 7 runners signed up on that list. He signs up and the confirmation message informs him that the teams will be formed 2 days before start. A few minutes later he receives a mail confirming his signup. A continues the preparation for this weekends event. He reads the instructions that are linked to the event in the event calendar. The instructions says that if you don’t have a license for CF can you borrow one; but he realizes that he has to practice beforehand. So from the link on CFLive.dk he’s directed to Catchingfeatures.com from where he can download a license. After registration and payment he is ready to play. He starts with the intro routes.

 

 

Scenario: Charlie participates in his first CFLive Relay

During the week has Charlie practiced for a couple of hours, he feels pretty confident with the keystrokes and has setup his persona in his own club-dress. It was rather easy to design the clubdress using the new template – he just had to fill some areas with colors and add the logo. Saturday noon he arrives to Oritown school. The organizers has arranged tables, network cabling and power in the gymnasium. Charlie has brought his own laptop he places it at number 17 – his teamnumber. He received a mail a couple of days ago telling him that his teammate is Joey. He saw a picture of him at CFLive.dk on the community forum. He meets Joey at the information desk.  They chat and arrange who to run first and play first. Charlie is going to start playing CF. They dress up in their orienteering clothes.

It’s time to start. All the runners stand in a couple of rows on the Computer. There is count down starting 1 minute in advance. The audience counts down from 10 – they can all the participants on the large projector. Start – all 30 teams runs to the start point following the marked route for 400 meter.  Charlie starts well; Joey screams that he is no. 5 when he is about half way. Joey can see all participants on the spectator screen shown on the projector. The list is sorted by runners in lead so it’s obvious for everyone who leads. Runners that has arrived goal is removed from the list.  You can see splittimes and the winners of each split are highlighted. Unfortunately (for Charlie) is the routes forked and he misses a control, it takes long to get back on track and he ends 25 out of the 30 teams. When he reaches the finish line a big display shows the teamnumber. Joey picks his map.  His start time is registered in the SportIdent SW as the time Charlie finished in CF. Joey runs – it’s though and he gets sweaty. Charlie looks for Joey to pass the spectator control. Joey has had a great run and passes as number 8 in a group of 4. Charlie can feel the adrenaline he is really turned on. Joey ends 6 and sends Charlie out. Joey takes of his o-shoes and prepares himself for playing CF. Charlie makes his best run ever and ends 4th. When he passes the finish control it is immediately displayed on the big results screen. And a start signal is shown on Joeys screen. He’s free to run from the exchange box. Joey runs in CF and Charlie follows him on the spectator screen. Joey missed a couple of controls and they end up 7. They both think they had a great result and they celebrate it. They go home and logs onto CFLive.dk – they can see routes, results, splittimes and replays – all uploaded by the gamemaster after the event.  Charlie examines the rankinglist and can now see that he is on the list as number 517 ! well, he has only participated in one event… The routes are also uploaded as an open competition, a rusian guys did the route 2 minutes faster than the best dane. He can also see himself on the international rankinglist – no 5 from the bottom – that’s OK he has had a great day and nothing can spoil his happiness. His is part of the gang ….      

 

Scenario: Annie participates in the Danish CFLive tournament

Annie can’t get enough orienteering, so recently she started playing CF. She has become quite good – though it took a while for her to get used to moving around with a mouse…

She thinks CF is a great way to practice; but the SW is a bit immature. She has never figured out how to design her own persona. She thinks the runners in the game looks ugly. She has signed up on CFLive.dk and often chats with all her friends. She also uses the forum to arrange meetings and figure out what’s going on among her friends – she is part of a community. When someone announced the CFLive tournament she thought that was real cool. The tournament was 6 events in total. You had to run 3 “real life” and 3 in CF – and they all counted in the final result. She signed up as usual using the Danish signup system www.O-service.dk – for the CF games she signed up for the special route that was setup for players.

In the morning she ran one of the “real life” routes near her hometown – it was great – and she won. The organizers had sent the OCAD maps to the CF Gamemaster who easily had transformed them to CF using the tools and wizards (the tools had been improved lately, so they were able to handle larger files and was far better in the transformation process). Later same day at 7pm the Gamemaster opened for the online competition. Annie had start time 7:19. All users that had signed up had assigned individual starting times. 5 minutes before start she signs in. She is going to play one the routes that Charlie had run earlier the same day in Jutland. Yeah – Charlie of all persons, she thought it was great to see “party king” Charlie actually also had started doing some serious running….

On CFLive.dk she could see all the results later – both the real life and the game. She could also see splittimes and because some of the participants in Jutland had uploaded their GPS tracks she could compare route choices. Cool. She learned a lot.

 

Scenario: Charlie and Annie participates in CFLive Ultra Relay

This is the greatest event ever. It’s the CFLive answer to Jukola and 10-mila. Everyone had to participate. 10 person relay. All playing and running. Mix of easy and challenging routes in the CF game and easy and hard (long, night orienteering) real life. Switch between players and real life runners direct. Team winner times 12 hours. Heats with up to 100 teams. Multiple computers to announce results and positions. TracTrac (www.tractrac.com) mounted on all runners. Positions transferred to CF – great experience for the audience. Local TV would transmit.

 

Charlie and Annie had to be part of this. They signed up on CFLive.dk. Charlie took the hard, long CF tour in the evening and an easy real life sprint next morning. Annie took the opposite. Everyone could participate- cool.