As mentioned in the previous post, to make things interesting and challenging for everyone this tournament is not a competition for the highest score in each category, but for who can beat their own handicap the most (or do worse the least). Therefore, the winners have the lowest (preferably negative) score for handicap change.

In this way, everyone has a chance to win, everyone is pushed to shoot at their best, rather than think, ‘I’ve got no chance so no point competing’. Furthermore, the handicap is updated with these results if people shoot better than normal, so next time they are pushed to do better still.

Tournament results

We had four groups, each containing two archers.

Archer Current
Handicap
Score
Handicap
Change
Alun (R)5450-4
David (R)577316
Freya (R)81898
Keeley (R)718514
Cindy (B)8480-4
Graham (B)6058-2
Tarryn (B)85861
Holly (B)89923
Winning scores in each category in bold

Raw scores

Here we have the absolute scores and number of X’s (which would be used for tie-breakers if necessary):

ArcherScoreNumber X’sClassification
Alun5224Indoor Bowman 2nd class*
Graham4841Indoor Bowman 2nd class*
David3802Indoor Archer 3rd class
Cindy3140Indoor Archer 3rd class
Keeley2661Indoor Archer 2nd class
Tarryn2520Indoor Bowman 3rd class*
Freya2290Indoor Archer 3rd class*
Holly1960Indoor Archer 1st class
By total score, ignoring junior/senior and barebow/recurve. *=provisional

As this is a tournament, it does count towards establishing ArcheryGB classifications. Indoor Archer needs two Portsmouth rounds (including club night shoots); Indoor Bowman needs three tournament scores, so these are currently provisional.

Unlike handicaps, classifications do take age, sex, and bowtype into account.

Handicap updates

Three people get an updated handicap as a result of this tournament. Remember that during the year handicaps never go up. If there is a lower score, the new handicap is mean of the old handicap and the tournament score.

  • Alun: 54 -> 52
  • Cindy: 84 -> 82
  • Graham: 60 -> 59