Category: Tournaments

The Summer tournament was very well attended, with some standout winners. Listed in order, best first (ie biggest decrease in handicap).

Archer	Score	Current Handicap	Tournament Handicap	Result
Theo	376	90	74	-16
Holly	342	88	77	-11
Cindy	291	88	82	-6
Lachlan	240	92	87	-5
Gareth	325	82	79	-3
Shirley	270	88	85	-3
Chip	411	71	69	-2
Valerie	374	76	74	-2
Freya	321	80	79	-1
Tarryn	293	83	82	-1
David	478	59	59	0
Eli	161	96	96	0
James	377	73	74	1
Ruairidh	235	86	87	1
Alun	469	57	61	4
George	433	60	66	6
Dougal	235	75	88	13

Tournament winners

Seniors:

• 1st Cindy
• 2nd Gareth
• 3rd Chip

Juniors:

• 1st Theo
• 2nd Holly
• 3rd Lachlan

Handicap updates

Several archers decreased their handicap, and for some we now have three tournament scores for the current year, allowing us to specify a classification; others are still provisional. The Indoor ‘year’ is from 1st July to 30th June. As this is the first tournament of this ‘year’, handicaps can be adjusted up as well as down. Some are unchanged.

Archer	New Handicap	Classification
Theo	82	IA1
Holly	82	IA2
Cindy	85	U/C
Lachlan	89	IA3*
Tarryn	82	IA1
Freya	78	IA2
Gareth	80	U/C
Shirley	86	IA3*
Chip	70	IA2
Valerie	75	IA1*
Alun	59	IA1
George	63	IA1
Dougal	81	IA1*
David	59	IA2
Eli	96	IA2
James	73	IA1*
Ruairidh	86	IA2*

Our second tournament of the year had fewer participants than normal due to Spring holidays. As before, this is a handicap tournament, which rewards those that do better than usual (for them) on the tournament day, rather than purely the highest scores. The idea is that continuing to do this results in the end with higher scores, but people are not discouraged on the journey.

Archer	Score	Current Handicap	Tournament Handicap	Result
Chip	445	77	65	-12
Eli	212	102	90	-12
Shirley	295	93	82	-11
Holly	258	89	86	-3
Lachlan	210	93	91	-2
Alun	496	57	56	-1
Cindy	247	88	87	-1
Tarryn	290	82	83	1

Tournament winners

Juniors:

• 1st Holly
• 2nd Lachlan
• 3rd Tarryn

Seniors:

• 1st Chip
• 1st Eli
• 3rd Shirley

New Handicaps

Most people improved their handicap in this tournament. Here are the new handicaps going forward. Handicaps require three qualifying scores in tournaments, so these are all provisional for this year.

Archer	Handicap	Classification
Chip	71	Indoor Archer 1st class
Eli	96	Indoor Archer 1st class
Shirley	88	Indoor Archer 3rd class
Holly	88	Indoor Archer 1st class
Lachlan	92	Indoor Archer 3rd class

On Thursday 28th November-Friday 29th November we held our Autumn Handicap Tournament, the last tournament of 2024. As before, we compare people’s current handicap with the handicap that corresponds with the tournament score. Therefore, the winners are not those that score the highest, necessarily, but those who shoot better than usual the most.

Here are the results:

Name	Score	Current Handicap	Score Handicap	Result
Chip (B)	380	91	73	-18
Ruairidh (B)	350	93	76	-17
Lachlan (B)	215	95	90	-5
Valerie (B)	360	76	75	-1
Freya (R)	295	81	82	1
Alun (R)	504	52	54	2
Eli (T)	66	106	111	5
Tarryn (B)	248	82	87	5
David (R)	455	57	63	6
George (B)	470	55	61	6
Holly (B)	165	85	95	10
Graham (B)	394	59	72	13
Shirley (R)	165	—	95	—

First prize: Chip. Second prize: Ruairidh. Third prize: Lachlan.

Handicap updates

The following changes to current handicaps result from this tournament. Note that during a calendar year handicaps can decrease but not increase.

Chip: 91 -> 82

Ruairidh: 93 -> 85

Lachlan: 95 -> 93

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)	54	50	-4
David (R)	57	73	16
Freya (R)	81	89	8
Keeley (R)	71	85	14
Cindy (B)	84	80	-4
Graham (B)	60	58	-2
Tarryn (B)	85	86	1
Holly (B)	89	92	3

Raw scores

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

Archer	Score	Number X’s	Classification
Alun	522	4	Indoor Bowman 2nd class*
Graham	484	1	Indoor Bowman 2nd class*
David	380	2	Indoor Archer 3rd class
Cindy	314	0	Indoor Archer 3rd class
Keeley	266	1	Indoor Archer 2nd class
Tarryn	252	0	Indoor Bowman 3rd class*
Freya	229	0	Indoor Archer 3rd class*
Holly	196	0	Indoor Archer 1st class

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