Outdoor Archery Championships 2021-22

Entry Opening Date

Tuesday 26 April 2022

Entry Closing Date

Tuesday 24 May 2022 at 11:59pm – Student/Competitor Deadline

(Students/Competitors must apply by this deadline)

Thursday 26 May 2022 at 11:59pm – Institution Administrator Deadline

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

Stage 1 Entry Fee

£21 for Saturday Entry

£21 for Sunday Entry

Team Events: No additional charge, as results are extracted from individual events

Stage 2

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.

Saturday:

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

Sunday:

WRS WA900

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

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.

Registration

• From 7:30am on Saturday.
• Equipment inspection will be run alongside registration.
• Archers will not need to re-register on Sunday.
• For those who are only shooting on Sunday, equipment inspection/registration will open from 9:00am.

Assembly

• Saturday- 8:30am         
• Sunday- 10:00am

On both days practice will immediately follow assembly and will be a maximum of 45 minutes.

• All competitors must be members of Archery GB and membership cards MUST be presented at registration on the day of the Championships.
•  Novice category eligibility can be found 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, if possible (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.

When an archer enters they will be asked to submit a qualification score. Full details of what tournaments/shoots count as qualification events can be found in the Appendix A tab below.

• The scores listed in Table 1  are the minimum qualification criteria for all categories. Archers who achieve the minimum scores listed in Table 2 will be given priority entry. Archers must shoot a score equal to or higher than the qualifying scores listed in the tables below in order to be eligible to compete.

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 2021.

Table 1:

Table 2:

Individual Category

• Female Novice and Experienced Barebow, Compound, Longbow and Recurve
• Male Novice and Experienced Barebow, Compound, Longbow and Recurve

Disability Category (if applicable)

• 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

• 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.
• 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 (i.e., release aids on non-compound bows).

• Archery GB dress regulations as shown in Rule 307 will apply

• This event is eligible for World Record Status
• Archers competing at Record Status tournaments may be liable for drug testing, and competitors approached to give samples must comply, refusal will be interpreted as a positive result.

• Gareth Beeby (COJ)
• Sarah Dickinson (DOS)
• Ian Ashworth
• Robert Clark
• Kieran Dexter
• Ian Helliwell
• Paul Jackson
• David Leach
• Adam Trott

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.

The team score calculation uses the following;

• Where an archer ranks in their category
• How many archers are in their category
• How they perform against a baseline score related to the qualification criteria

The formula used to calculate the team scores will be published after entries close. 

Team Score Calculation:

Simplified
[WA900 relative finishing position] + [WA900 % of qualification score] + [WA50/60/70 relative finishing position] + [ WA50/60/70 % of qualification score] = combined ranked score

The full formula for both rounds is:

(#competitors - #rank)/(#competitors -1)* + (Representation of % of Qualification Score Achieved)**
*If only 1 archer present both days, then use 1 for the denominator (#competitors-1)=1 to prevent dividing by 0)
**If the qualification score was 100 and an archer scored 200 this score would be 2