Island Archers Winter Series

Competition Rules 2011-2012

(Updated 04/11/11 Rule 3. and Rule 3a. are temporarily suspended due to technical issues with the website submission forms.)

The Competition shall run every year between the 00:01hrs on 1^st October and the 23:59hrs on 30^th April.

Competitors shall shoot a Portsmouth round (60 arrows @ 20 yards, 60cm target face) for each month of the competition under competition conditions as defined in the GNAS Rules of Shooting.
1. Where competitors are unable to attend the Club's shooting session on the Club's nominated monthly competition night, they may, at the discretion of their fellow competitors, shoot their round on a different Club shooting session during that month.

Competitors shall submit their scores for that month via the online submission form on the Club's website.

Competitiors shall have until 23:59:59hrs on the seventh day of the following month to submit their scores for that month. Scores submitted after this deadline shall not be included in Winter Series calculations.
Competitors may submit more than one round per month to the Club's , but only their best score for that month shall be included in the Competition.

Competitors shall ALSO submit a score sheet for each submitted round to the Club’s Records Officer as soon as possible after their score has been submitted via the online score submission form.
1. Each score sheet shall include the score value for every arrow shot, a total for each end of the round, an overall total score, the total number of hits scored, and the total number of Golds (which, shall be taken as inner and outer 10s in accordance with the Archery GB (GNAS) Rules of Shooting) scored.
2. Score sheets shall be signed by the competitor, and, if the shooting of the round has not been witnessed by the Club’s Records Officer, shall be countersigned by another archer who witnessed the round being shot.
3. Failure to submit a valid scoresheet to accompany the online score submission to the Club Records Officer will render the submission void.

Each month, Competitors’ best Portsmouth result (scores, number of hits, and number of golds) shall added to those of previous months to give an overall total, which shall be ranked against those of other Competitors, and the results shall be published, along with a current copy of the competition Rules, on the Club’s website as soon as possible after scores are submitted.

At the end of the competition, Competitors’ best four (4) results (scores, number of hits, and number of golds) from six for each month shall be added to give an overall total for the Competition; the highest three, as well as the highest-placed novice (with less than six months experience at the start of the competition - denoted by (n) in the rankings above) and Junior (denoted by (j) in the rankings above) shall be eligible for prizes.
1. If Competitors are unable to submit more than four scores during the course of the Competition, all their results (scores, number of hits, and number of golds) shall be added to give an overall total for the Competition; the highest three, as well as the highest-placed novice (with less than six months experience at the start of the competition - denoted by (n) in the rankings above) and Junior (denoted by (j) in the rankings above) shall be eligible for prizes.
2. Any ties in scores totals shall be resolved by Competitors’ hits totals (the highest shall prevail), and if the tie still remains unbroken, it shall be resolved by Competitors’ golds totals (the highest shall prevail) and if the tie still remains unbroken, it shall be resolved by the number of scores submitted (the highest shall prevail).
3. In the highly-unlikely event that the tie remains unbroken, it shall be resolved by the toss of a coin.

In the interests of transparency and fair play, the Rules may be reviewed and subject to change during the Competition.

If rules are altered during the course of the competiton, notification of the rule change shall be displayed on the HOME and CLUB NEWS pages on the Club's website and emailed to all club members.