Archery: Outdoor Championships 2022-23

DATES

10th- 11th June 2023

VENUE

Lilleshall National Sports Centre

ADDRESS

Lilleshall National Sports & Conferencing Centre
Near Newport
Shropshire
TF10 9AT

ENTRY OPENING DATE

Wednesday 12 April 2023

ENTRY CLOSING DATE

Tuesday 23 May 2023 at 11:59pm – Student/Competitor Deadline

(Students/Competitors must apply by this deadline)

Thursday 25 May 2023 at 11:59pm – Institution Administrator Approval Deadline

(Institution Administrators are given 48 hours after the Student/Competitor deadline to approve entries)

ENTRY COSTS

Both Days - £46.50

Saturday Only - £23.25

Sunday Only - £23.25

Priority will be given to archers who enter both days of the tournament (please select both day entry on BUCS Play). Single day entries will be accepted depending on spaces available.

Saturday;

WRS WA70m/60m/50m Ranking Round followed by Head to Head

Sunday;

WRS WA900

Target awards may be claimed by all experienced archers and novice barebow/compound archers on Saturday and all archers on Sunday providing they achieve the appropriate scores.

Full details of the rounds to be shot by each category can be found in BUCS Regulation ARC 2.2

• From 7:45am on Saturday.
• For those who are only shooting on Sunday, equipment inspection/registration will open from 9:45am.
• Assembly will be held immediately after registration closes.

All archers need to hold a current ArcheryGB membership and be eligible to compete in BUCS events in line with BUCS Regulations ARC 4 and REG 4.1.

Archers entering the novice category must meet the eligibility criteria set out in ARC 3 of the BUCS Regulations.

Any individual who enters the tournament and is subsequently found to be ineligible for the category they have entered (ie. novice, barebow), will not be permitted to compete. If this is discovered before the event the individual will be permitted to switch to the appropriate category provided they have achieved the appropriate qualification scores and the change can be accommodated (determined by BUCS), this will incur a £15 admin fee. If discovered after or during the event, the participant will be disqualified, any awards will be revoked and a £50 fine will be issued to the appropriate Institution post-event.

Archers are required to submit a qualification score with their entry. Details of the minimum standards tournaments/events must meet to be eligible for use as qualifying events are in Appendix A below.

• Table 1 shows the minimum qualification score requirements for all categories. Archers must shoot a score equal to or higher than the qualifying scores listed in order to be eligible to compete.*
• Table 2 shows the priority entry qualification score requirements for all categories. Archers who achieve the scores listed in Table 2 will be given priority entry. Please note, following the new classification tables released by ArcheryGB, all qualification scores have changed.
• All archers are required to have sight marks or reference points for each distance they are shooting over the BUCS Outdoors weekend (as detailed in BUCS Regulation ARC 2.2). They will be asked to confirm this on their entry. If it is discovered that archers do not have sight marks/reference points at the event, they will be disqualified from competing and a £50 fine issued. 
• Archers are welcome to complete a round that is a distance up than those specified (ie. a Metric 1 instead of a Metric 2) and their entry will be accepted, as long as the minimum scores for the comparable round in Table 1 are achieved.
• All scores must have been shot at, or since the BUCS Outdoor Championships (11th and 12th June) 2022.

**PLEASE NOTE: This is the last year WA1440/Metric and York/Hereford/Bristol Rounds will be used for qualification following the results of the BUCS Outdoors Survey**

Table 1:

Table 2: 

[1] Name

[2] DOB

[3] University

[4] ArcheryGB Club (if not University)

[5] Gender

[6] Archery GB Number

[7] Competitors qualifying round

[8] Competitors qualifying score

[9] Date when the qualification score was shot

[10] Please link to the URL showing the competitors score

[11] I confirm that I have sight marks for all distances that I will shoot at the BUCS Outdoors event

[12] Do you classify yourself as a disabled athlete?

[12A] If yes, do you consider yourself to fit into any of the WA/ArcheryGB disability/para categories i.e. VI, W1 (please specify)?

[12B] If [12] is yes, do you require any assistive devices (e.g. wheelchair, shooting stool, tactile sight)

[12C] If [12B] is yes, do you require to stay on the shooting line?

[13] Additional information

All information must be submitted in order for the entry to be processed. Any incorrect information submitted will be rejected.

Please note: When you enter this competition, the listed information may be collected and shared with tournament organisers, scoring systems and other competitors for example Target Lists and Results may be published displaying some (or all) of the information provided.

• Please ensure that you specify any additional requirements on your entry. Where possible we will accommodate all reasonable requests and support athletes as best we can.
  • Please note that we may be unable to provide spotters, wheelchairs, shooting stools or agents for competitors. If you require these items and are unable to provide your own please ensure you have communicated with BUCS prior to the event so that a discussion can be had as to how your needs may be met.
• Competitors in the disability category remain eligible as part of their chosen individual and team categories, with their scores extracted for disability results.
• Evidence will be required for any classifiable adaptations made in accordance with WA rules (ie. release aids on non-compound bows).

Medals (depending on entry numbers) will be awarded for

Individual: Female Novice and Experienced Barebow, Compound, Longbow and Recurve, Male Novice and Experienced Barebow, Compound, Longbow and Recurve

Disabled: Female Novice and Experienced Barebow, Compound, Longbow and Recurve, Male Novice and Experienced Barebow, Compound, Longbow and Recurve

Teams: Open Championship (Experienced) Female Team, Open Championship (Experienced) Male Team, Open Compound Team, Open Trophy (Novice) Team

For further information on how awards are calculated and team make up, please see BUCS Regulations ARC 2.2.5 and ARC 2.2.6

Awarded BUCS points can be found via Appendix 1

Edits deadline: 5pm Friday2nd June

Confirmations by Wednesday 7th June

Where an individual develops a new injury/medical condition requiring them to withdraw, a medical note can be submitted to avoid incurring a fine.

Withdrawals should be emailed to the event lead via your athletic union. 

All qualifying scores must be shot under competition conditions, at competitions that meet all of the following 3 conditions:

• At least 5 archers completed the competition and are shown on the results sheet.
• At least two clubs are present and competing.
• No more than 67% of all competitors are from a single club (can be university, or external clubs).

e.g. inter-club friendly, League legs/championships and Open competitions etc.

For the purpose of calculating numbers of competitors in a qualifying competition, the university club for each archer shall be considered, even if they entered the competition under a different club. e.g. An archer who shoots for “University A” at BUCS is included in the total number of archers from “University A”, even if they entered the competition under “External Club B”.

In all conditions the qualifying score must have been obtained with the same bowstyle as the BUCS category being entered.

A qualifying score will need to be submitted for each individual on BUCS Play at the time of entry and a URL link to the results list for the qualifying shoot for that archer must be provided. The results list should be either directly hosted on the web, or in a downloadable document.

This document should have the following minimum details for each archer:

• Full name
• Bowstyle
• Gender
• Round shot
• Score obtained
• Date of competition
• Location of competition

Any individual who either fails to provide a functioning link to a results sheet or is found to have given a false score will not be permitted to compete. If this is discovered after or during the event, the participant will be disqualified, and any awards will be revoked. If a space has already been used up by the participant, the entry fee will not be refunded and a £50 fine issued.