NOAC OAWarrior

11/18/2023

Warrior in 2024! Are you coming to NOAC?

02/12/2023

The 2023 National Jamboree comes in 156 days and for the first time since 2015, Warrior is Back! The establishment of JamboWarrior as a major program event will bring a similar competitive obstacle course, like OAWarrior, at a national Scouting event. Unlike other events, this will bring a unique competitive and challenge for Jamboree participants and in the AT&T Summit Stadium. If you or anyone you know are interested in being on the elite staff team for this event, please message here or sign up for Jamboree Service Team and select JamboWarrior as your staffing choice

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10/04/2015

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/

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

08/28/2015

A big OAWarrior thanks to Webscorer & CEO Vesa for making our individual and team competitive obstacle race event a success with their race timing software & system along with handling every situation with class and patience! Anyone trying to time a race should go with Webscorer!

Race timer and race timing app for the iPad, iPad mini, iPhone, iPod, Android tablets, and Android phones. Integrated system for organizing races from race registration to timing to results.

08/27/2015

OAWarrior get up after they fall and we are glad to report that our staff member Steven Smith is back up and making progress in his recovery! The entire staff of OAWarrior and participants have you in our thoughts and prayers!

08/09/2015

Special call out for OAWarrior staff member Steven Smith who had an injury on the course! Godspeed Steven and best wishes from the entire OAWarrior staff and a speedy recovery.

08/09/2015

Video of National Officers competing for NOAC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCpuPxV4TnA

Members of the Order of the Arrow National Committee and a few of the 2015 National Officers met in friendly competition to take on OAWarrior. We strapped so...

08/09/2015

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.

08/09/2015

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!

08/09/2015

The was quite popular with present and past National Officers and members of the National Committee, along with our incoming Scout Exec Mike Surbaugh. Congrats to Joey Dierdorf - Central Region Chief for fastest time at 6:52 followed Nathan Lee - Western Region Chief at 7:29.

08/09/2015

Great times at at NOAC here are some photos from the week of contestants.

08/08/2015

was a blast at NOAC quick video recap http://t.co/kqeeajBMbv

Adventurous Arrowmen have the opportunity to bring fame and honor to their lodges at the OAWarrior Challenge, the largest challenge course ever seen at a Nat...