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MTB Orienteering Commission

What’s new in MTBOC?

The final and approved version of the Guidelines Pursuit has been uploaded, see the section Organise MTBO events or directly here.
The IOF Council has approved a new system regarding the event service fee and the anti-doping contribution for MTBO, SkiO and TrailO (see announcement on the IOF website). Thanks to this, organisers of MTBO World Cup events will have to pay 26-45 % less than previously to the IOF. Details and an overview of the new and previous fees can be found in the document New IOF fees for MTBO organisers appointed in 2025 or later.
The Guidelines on how to facilitate the return to competition for athletes following pregnancy (rule 12.6) have been published – see here.
We are delighted to announce the Young Guns World Series for 2025. It includes some multi day events and two training camps too. First one will be an excellent opportunity on the border between Portugal and Spain including a superb training camp in Portugal before the races in Spain. See YGWS page under the Events & Results section.
We are trying to collect oldies, but goldies 🙂 maps from previous high-level MTBO events. Please visit our MTBO maps archive.

ORGANISER DEVELOPMENT

Goals:

Have at least one great event application for each WMTBOC & EMTBOC
Have at least one event application for the other IOF major events (World Cup round & WMMTBOC)

Tasks for 2025-26:

Strengthen and facilitate communication with federations (organisers) and EAs
Develop a digital education tool with topics about organisation (e-learning course)
Participate in the Education Working Group

QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS

Tasks for 2025-26:

Promote the revised Guidelines and Manual for Organisers of MTBO Events
Create a mapping guide (as a supplement to the ISMTBOM)
Revise template for EA’s report and create a better template for the organiser’s report
Create a Course Planning Manual (online document)

FAIR PLAY AND RULES

Goal:

Tasks for 2025-26:

Provide information on fair play (e.g. Guidelines Shortcutting) and make organisers and event advisers aware of possible critical situations (e.g. in Organiser’s Manual, or in newsletter for EAs)
Participate in the IOF Fair Play Working Group

Initiative by MTBOC: DEVELOPMENT OF MTBO

Goals:

Tasks for 2025-26:

Finish the project “How to Organise a First MTBO Event (HOFME)”
Develop a strategy to increase participation at grassroots level
Develop MTBO in a country (tbd) with currently low or no MTBO activity (project)

EVENT PLANNING

EVENT QUALITY

General and education of organisers and event advisers

Check status of upcoming events regularly (bulletins, Eventor, monitoring of SEAs)
Look for and appoint jury members at major events (WCup rounds & WMMTBOC)
Look after the injury and accident data base
Look for and appoint SEAs for major events
Support SEAs in their work before and during the event
Newsletter to Event Advisers
Offer and conduct clinics/workshops for EAs and organisers
Provide support documents and update them regularly (Handbook for EAs, templates for bulletins, etc.)Look after digital platform (FB group) for organisers and EAs to share experiences

Rules, guidelines and fair play

Update Guidelines & Manual for Organisers of MTBO Events and other guidelines regularly
Handle possible rules deviations from organisers/SEAs
Check and update rules regularly (in collaboration with RC)
Propose rule changes
Keep records of disqualifications and jury cases

Mapping

Check quality of maps used at WCup events
Encourage/ask organisers to profit from the map control offered by the Map Commission

Event evaluation

Check event quality based on feedback from participants and organisers as well as from SEA’s reports
Foster regular discussion with participants on event quality

DEVELOPMENT