Mandatory and optional controls
Represent the controls that define completion, scoring, and route decisions.
Controls and navigation
Orienteering and checkpoint events
Use mandatory or optional controls, route choices, and maps that reveal the right details at the right time.
Checkpoint-based formats need more than a line on a map. MapCatch can help organisers manage controls, route choices, and the public picture around who has reached what.
What matters
Designed around this event shape
Navigation context
Use map detail, route variants, and event messages to guide the field without losing the challenge.
Proof and corrections
Combine live data, checks, and organiser review for the official event outcome.
Why MapCatch
Why MapCatch is different here
Checkpoint events can become dynamic. The app can show the next control, route branch, or instruction only after the participant reaches the right place or completes the required task.
MapCatch can support mandatory controls, optional controls, proof review, route choices, and public progress without forcing organisers into a pure timing-chip model.
Followers can see meaningful progress while organisers decide exactly which navigation details should stay hidden, delayed, or revealed.
Organizer sales
Planning checkpoint events?
Share the route format, participant count, dates, terrain, and tracking mix you are considering.