Lane Assignment & Warmup

Every participant is assigned a specific lane & order & target position

At the beginning of the tournament, everyone will draw a ticket with the assigned lane and order

Lane: 1-13

Order: A & B

Target position: A- on top. B- Bottom.

If your ticket is 2A, it means you will be shooting on lane 2, the 1st round, top target

If your ticket is 13B, it means you will be shooting on lane 13, the 2nd round, bottom target

Handicap Scoring

Every participant is assigned a specific handicap value based on the initial placement or their previous tournament results (if available, it’s calculated as a difference between the previous 30 arrows result and 300.)

In case of an initial placement 12 arrows are used, a difference with 120 points is then multiplied by 2.5 and rounded.

Handicap will be capped out at
–  200 for Asiatic
– 150 for barebow & traditional
– 100 Olympic recurve,
– 50 for compound

Example A:
Compound 12 arrows placement gave a result of 98 out of 120. Handicap is (120-98)x2.5 = 55.
However, there is the cap at 50 for compound, so the handicap value is 50

Example B:
A barebow archer score in the previous tournament was 240. The handicap value is 300-240=60.
The handicap value is 60

Tournament Scoring

# of scoring rounds and # of arrows
There will be a total of 30 arrows.
10 ends of 3 arrows or 5 ends of 6 arrows
Please refer to the scoring system section on how to calculate points on each category and each type of target  face

Scoring partner system:
Each shooter is required to have a scoring partner, who will validate and confirm your score.
Your scoring partner is the archer on next lane to your right, on the same order.
For example: 1A and 2A will be scoring partners

Whistle commands & duration:
2 blasts: get on the shooting line and get ready (15 seconds)
1 long blast: scoring round commences (75 seconds)
3 blast: round ends, archers go retrieve arrows, score and put your equipment in the assigned area (110 seconds)

All archers must stand behind the waiting line until the 2 blasts (getting on the shooting line)

Playoffs & Match System

Requirement
Only for categories of 6 or more participants
For categories of less than 6 participants, your score will determine the ranking

Participants
The top 4 seeds of each category (without handicap points) will compete:
1st vs 4th, 2nd vs 3rd
Winner of each match will compete for 1st & 2nd place
Loser of each match will compete for 3rd & 4th place

Set system format

In each match, athletes compete head-to-head in a best-of-five set (or “end”) format (similar to tennis). In each set, both athletes shoot three arrows each. The athlete with the highest score at the end of each set gets two points. If a set is tied, both athletes receive one point.

The first athlete to reach six points (i.e. win three sets) wins the match.

In this single match play with alternating shooting, the higher ranked athlete will decide the order of shooting in the first end; the athlete with lower set points will shoot first in the next end.

Each arrow has a 20 seconds limit

Tiebreaking
If at the end of five sets there is a tie, a single arrow shoot-off is held.
The athlete who was ranked higher first to begin the shoot-off. The athlete closest to the center X wins. If both athletes shoot a 10, another shoot off is required; if no winner is decided, the process repeats until a winner is named