I've been developing a news page using Umbraco 7. I strubbled on this page https://cultiv.nl/blog/whats-this-umbraco-route-hijacking-all-about/ and basically built exactly the same.

Everythings is working and the hijacking is working properly, however I wanted to have some proper MVC routing, so for example I could pass arguments to the controller as well.

So I would end up with something like this:

namespace Cultiv.Controllers
{
    public class BlogOverviewController : RenderMvcController
    {
        public ActionResult BlogOverview(BlogOverview model, string argument1)
        {
            if (model.Page == 0) // default value for int
                model.Page = 1;

            // do paging 

            return CurrentTemplate(model);
        }
    }
}