Please find below the accepted entries list for this event:

Accepted Entries - Taekwondo

REGISTRATION – Saturday 25^th March

•  08:00 - 10:00 (last arrivals 09:30, whole teams only, first team comes first seen) - Sign in at the Student-athlete morning accreditation & weigh-in desks - see signs for locations - student-athletes to attend
  • Each university male players and female players must all arrive for accreditation and weigh-in together; females and males go to your respective accreditation waiting areas.
  • There will be 4 weigh-in rooms, 2 male and 2 female; check the signs to see which male and which female weigh-in room is designated for your university, you must go to the correct one as you cannot be registered if you go to the wrong room, they will not have your accreditation card!

• 08:00 - 08:45 - Sign in at the General accreditation desk - Go to check-in desk , main hall - all referees, volunteers, coaches, assistant coaches, guests, spectators and all other participants to attend

Saturday 25^th March 2023

• 08:40 - Referee & Patterns judge briefing session - Go to Court 5 - all registered umpires (L2+) to attend
• 09:00 - Volunteer assistant briefing session - Go to Court 4-  all registered volunteer assistants (L5-L3) to attend
  • Volunteers who have not yet attended accreditation must do so after these briefings or you will be marked as absent in our register
• 09:20 - Volunteer assistant technical briefing session - From court 4 go to demonstration desk - all registered volunteer assistants (L5-L3) who are not competing in the patterns competition to attend - wherever possible volunteers attending this session should swap roles with other volunteers on their court and take the desk technical assistant (laptop operator) role during the sparring competition
• 09:20 - Club captain & head-coach briefing session - Go to Court 3 - 1 captain/president and 1 head coach per club to attend

• 10:00 - 13:00 - Patterns competition - umpires, volunteers and student-athletes must all be in position/ warmed up respectively by 09:30 respectively ready for a  09:45 start to the patterns competition
• 13:00 - 19:30 - Sparring competition - All ITF rule sparring to take place on Saturday, B-Class WT rules sparring disciplines will take place on Saturday but A-Class and C-Class WT rules sparring will not begin until Sunday sessions. Umpires, volunteers and student-athletes must all be in position/ warmed up respectively by 12:45 respectively ready for an immediate 13:00 start to the sparring competitions
• Lunch will be staggered, one court at a time, across Saturday afternoon. See the notices on individual court desks for details.

Sunday 26th March 2023

• 08:00 - 08:45 - Sign in at the General accreditation desk - Go to check-in desk , main hall - all referees, volunteers, coaches, assistant coaches, guests, spectators and all other participants to attend
• 08:40 - Referee & Patterns judge briefing session - Go to Court 4 - all registered umpires (L2+) to attend
• 09:00 - Volunteer assistant briefing session - Go to Court 3-  all registered volunteer assistants (L5-L3) to attend
• Volunteers who have not yet attended accreditation must do so after these briefings or you will be marked as absent in our register
• 09:20 - Volunteer assistant technical briefing session - From court 3 go to demonstration desk - all registered volunteer assistants (L5-L3) who are not competing in the patterns competition to attend - wherever possible volunteers attending this session should swap roles with other volunteers on their court and take the desk technical assistant (laptop operator) role during the sparring competition
• 09:20 - Club captain & head-coach briefing session - Go to Court 2 - 1 captain/president and 1 head coach per club to attend
• 10:00 - 19:00 - Sparring competition - A-Class and C-Class WT rules sparring. Umpires, volunteers and student-athletes must all be in position/ warmed up respectively by 09:45 respectively ready for an immediate 10:00 start to the sparring competitions
• Lunch will be staggered, one court at a time, across Sunday afternoon. See the notices on individual court desks for details.

All itineraries are subject to change, check the BSTF website for live updates up to and including on event day(s). We recommend building in plenty of contingency time for travel, and having a back-up travel option for smaller groups of student-athletes/ coaches in case they need to depart later than the bulk of your team.

The rules & regulations for BUCS Taekwondo events can be found here.

Please also refer to sections 9-15 of the BSTF website for discipline specific rule information.

PARKING

Free parking is available on site but spaces are not guaranteed. Coach parking is next to the artificial pitch.

CHANGING FACILITIES

Talybont Sports Village has a number public changing rooms that are available for use.

FOOD/DRINK

Talybont Sports Village does not have a café on site. Visitors are permitted to bring their own food into the venue but should not bring external hot food (fast food and deliveries) into the site.

PRESENTATIONS

Medals will be presented throughout the event

BUCS POINTS

Team Points (all divisions)

The eight institutions with the highest total score accumulated by all their registered student-athletes in all disciplines, classes and divisions across all three (autumn, winter, spring) championships are awarded:

• 1st place: 20 points
• 2nd place: 14 points
• 3rd place: 10 points
• 4th place: 7 points
• 5th place: 5 points
• 6th place: 3 points
• 7th place: 2 points
• 8th place: 1 point

Individual Points (individual A-class divisions only)

A BUCS individual 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th placement is awarded to the top four student-athletes in each A-class sparring and individual patterns division based on their final score across the series, awarding 12, 8, 6 and 4 BUCS points per A-class division respectively.

Student-athletes may accrue ranking points in disciplines and divisions contested at one or more Series championship, and the sum of up to their best 2 sets of ranking points for separate division(s) across the Series determine their overall BUCS Individual Champion placement(s). Competitors are awarded 1 point for successful weigh-in & registration, plus ranking points based on their final placement in each division.

To see how many BUCS Points click here