Mandatory and optional controls
Represent the controls that define completion, scoring, and route decisions.
Controls and navigation
Orienteering and control-point events
Use mandatory or optional controls, route choice, and maps that reveal the right details at the right time.
Control-based formats need more than a line on a map. MapCatch can help organisers manage controls, route choice, and the live event record around who has reached what.
What matters
Designed around this event format
Navigation context
Use map detail, route variants, and event messages to guide the field without losing the challenge.
Confirmation and corrections
Combine live data, checks, and organiser review for the official event outcome.
Why MapCatch
Why MapCatch is different here
Control-point 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.
Plan this format
Planning control-point events?
Share mandatory and optional controls, reveal rules, map requirements, proof model, and participant count.