NOAC OAWarrior

This summary was created to communicate the results from NOAC OAWarrior to the National Committee - Enjoy!

The largest competitive obstacle course in Boy Scout history and most likely in the United States. The OA Warrior was a half mile obstacle course specifically designed for NOAC in a 740ft by 600ft field at Michigan State University with 13 obstacles including 5 inflatable obstacles include Spider Climb, Hippo (largest and tallest inflatable in the world at 175ft long and 50ft high), Big Baller (like found on Wipeout TV Show), Boot Camp Challenge (100ft long), and Cliff Jump along with a series of challenging multi-level 1,000 pound straw rounds, crawl-under straw bales, and series of tire obstacles. It was managed and staffed by 25 people.

There was 5 days of competition for any youth Arrowman to participate across individual and team competition, along with National OA Committee and adviser competition. There was a total of 1,988 youth Arrowman in OA Warrior for the week over 32 hours (including 3 hours for competition). There were 1,361 Arrowman that individually competed with 31 that competed in the NOAC finals. The fastest individual time was from Blue Heron Lodge was 5 minutes - 8 seconds - 6 milliseconds, and was one millisecond faster than second place to the slowest pace of 57 minutes - 17 seconds. We had 131 Lodge teams of four Arrowman competed (524 Arrowmen) with 18 Lodge teams (72 Arrowmen) competed for OA Warrior Lodge Award. The fastest Lodge Team time was 25 minutes and 6 seconds from Wauna La-Mon'Tay to the slowest Lodge team time was 1 hour 9 minutes. The fastest national officer time was Central Region Chief Joey at 6 minutes - 52 seconds.

In addition OAWarrior was open during HODAG for youth and adults for 2.5 hours of competition and also for staff and VIP for 3 hours who competed over lunch on Tue., Wed and Thursday and accounted for total of 5.5 hours. OA Warrior was open for a total of 37.5 hours throughout NOAC.

Highlight Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ5GXysd4y4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhtOju22bd8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCpuPxV4TnA

http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2015/08/05/our-next-chief-scout-executive-tackles-oawarrior-course-at-noac-2015/

OAWarrior Get an up close look at the OAWarrior obstacle course at NOAC 2015!

OAWarrior would not have been possible without a great staff! Led by OAWarrior Chief Mike Rosenberg, Lead Mark Smith, and supporting leads Bradley Long, Kieran Thompson and Adam Enerson. This was the largest and longest competitive obstacle race in Boy Scout history, and we have been told the longest in duration in U.S. history. Six months in the making from concept at National Planning Meeting to the design, implementation and being live over 6 long days with few breaks and the welcomed support from other ARC program specialists, provisional staff and leadership of ARC Chief Tyler Inberg & Lead Mike Bliss, and great operational support from Frank Fodero and Andy Martin. A special thanks to USA Inflatables and Kevin who made the onsite operations of obstacles possible, and the racing software from Webscorer and personal tech support of their CEO Vesa.

The finals for Lodge and Individual proved that the best was yet to come with records being set and the course best was beat by almost a minute!