ENTRY OPENING DATE

Tuesday 13^th December 2022

STAGE 1 ENTRY CLOSING DATE

Tuesday 24^th January 2023 at 23:59 – Student / Competitor Deadline

(Students / Competitors must apply by this deadline)

Thursday 26^th January 2023 at 23:59 – Institution Administrator Deadline

(Institutional Administrators are given 48 hours after the student / competitor deadline to approve entries)

ENTRY COSTS

Individual Events (K1M, K1W, C1M, C1W, C2): £29.50

Team Events (Open and Mixed): £35 (£11.67 per person)

STAGE 2 ENTRIES

Should the competition allow more entries a Stage 2 entry window will open. Priority will remain with the entries received before the Stage 1 entry closing date. Entries received in the Stage 2 window and accepted into the competition, will be charged an additional 20% fee.

Stage 2 Entry Costs

Individual Events (K1M, K1W, C1M, C1W, C2): £35.40

Team Events (Open and Mixed): £42

Stage 2 window: Friday 27^th January – Tuesday 31^st January 2023

Stage 2 IA deadline – Thursday 2^nd February 2023

Championships

Men’s K1 Championship (K1M - All types of K1 kayak allowed)

Women’s K1 Championship (K1W - All types of K1 kayak allowed)

Men’s C1 Championship (C1M - All types of C1 closed-cockpit 1-person canoe allowed)

Women’s C1 Championship (C1W - All types of C1 closed-cockpit 1-person canoe allowed)

Open C2 Championship (C2 - Event open to both men and women. All types of C2 closed-cockpit 2-person canoe allowed)

Open Team Championship

Mixed Team Championship

Please note, an Open Team can be made of any 3 boats per team of any gender of person. A Mixed Team can be made up of 3 boats per team and is open to all boats of either gender except Men’s K1. 

In addition, an individual competitor may only enter each team event once, and if entering both the Open and Mixed team events must paddle a different boat class in each, so a competitor cannot paddle their K1, C1 or C2 in both an Open and a Mixed Team.

Please note Team events and the C2 event require all individuals in the team to enter (e.g all three members of an open team must enter that discipline). Please see the entry allowance tab for more information on how to rank these entries.

Institutions can request an unlimited number of non-guaranteed entries, however should the event reach capacity BUCS may need to restrict the number of entries per institution. Therefore, when submitting entries on BUCS Play, entries should be ranked in order of preference of entry before being submitted e.g 1, 2, 3, 4. Should BUCS need to restrict entries this will be done equally across institutions.

Additionally, entries for the C2 discipline must be ranked as pairs, based on who is competing together in a boat (e.g 1, 1, followed by 2, 2 and so on). Please use the same process for ranking team entries e.g all members of a team must have the same rank (1, 1, 1, followed by 2, 2, 2 and so on).

Any institution that has 12 or more entries accepted into the competition will be required to provide a water safety officer at the event. This will be required for every 12 competitors accepted, so if an institution has 24 entries accepted, they will need to provide two water safety officers, and so on. Institutions who do not provide their allocation of water safety officers will be fined £150 per officer.

All institutions will also be required to provide judges at allocated points during the competition, which will be published in advance of the event. Any institution that does not provide a judge when required will be fined £50.

Parking for this event will be in the White Water Car Park (by reception), and the Country Park Car Park (near the high ropes). There will be no parking near the white water course. 

Information on parking can be found here 

Camping can be booked here

At current, only hard standing pitches are available due to the weather. There are 20 hard standing pitches available to book on a first come, first served basis. These are available at a reduced cost of £21 per pitch per night. Each pitch is designed for one tent/motorhome for up to 4 people plus 1 car. Each hard standing pitch comes with eletrics. 

Once the hard standing pitches are gone, grass pitches may be released. 

If you want to book additions, the costs are:

Car - £5.00, Gazebo - £5.00, Awning - £3.00, Additional Adults - £7.00

Check in is at 2pm and check out is at 10am

If late check out is required please do this at time of booking - £6.00 per pitch.

Pods are also currently available at a reduced rate of:

Standard pods - £30.00 

Deluxe pods - £45.00

All institutions will be provided with a bag of bibs on the day. 

A cash deposit will be taken by the organisers when distributing the bibs to teams, and will be returned once all of that team's bibs are handed back in. 

Withdrawals must be made in writing by the institution administrator and e-mailed to Harry Spinks, the BUCS Event Coordinator.

Withdrawals before the institution administrator approval deadline (26 January 2023 at 23:59 [stage one]) will not be charged.

Withdrawals after the institution administrator approval deadline (26 January 2023 at 23:59 [stage one]) and before 23:59 on the 2 February 2023 (stage two institution administrator approval deadline) will still be charged the entry fee. 

Competitors who do not withdraw before 23:59 on the 2 February 2023 and do not attend the competition will be classed as a late withdrawal/no show and therefore will be charged the entry fee. They will also be fined £50 which will be charged after the event, to the competitor’s athletic union.

Should BUCS have to open stage two entries then new deadlines for withdrawals will be published. Reserves will only be charged an entry fee if they are accepted into the competition.

Withdrawal of a competitor does not guarantee a replacement into the competition. Reserves will only be charged an entry fee if they are accepted into the competition. 

Please see our Withdrawal Policy for more details.