Tournament Format

Like our annual Oystercatcher Tournament this competition will use the handicap system which allows all archers to compete equally together irrespective of gender, age or equipment division. Your handicap gives you an “allowance” (calculated using Archery GB handicap tables) which is added to the score you shoot on the day.

Each month from January through to November the scores shot for our monthly Target Day (last Sunday of each month) will be “handicap adjusted” then ranked from highest to lowest adjusted score. Points will then be awarded from 10 down to 1 for the highest ten scores. If an archer is not able to shoot a score on any Target Day, they can arrange to shoot it the week before or the week after so as not to miss out on the chance of points for that month.

These points will accumulate through the year until our final Target Day in November when the archer with the highest total will be our overall winner.

The more Target Day scores you shoot the higher your chances of winning so get stuck in! The winner of the tournament will be awarded a club trophy which they will retain for a year until it is time for it to be awarded to the winner of the next tournament.

Handicap example (for a Portsmouth Round)

Archer A has a handicap of 43.

• With a handicap of 43 they will get 922 points added to their score.
• Archer A shoots a Portsmouth score of 523, giving them a total score of 1445.

Archer B has a handicap of 60.

• With a handicap of 60 they will get 1024 points added to their score.
• Archer B shoots a Portsmouth score of 435, giving them a total score of 1459.

In this match archer B is the winner (and gets 10 points), with a higher handicap-adjusted score even though they shot a lower Portsmouth score on the day. Archer A (in this example) would get 9 points - so so on for the top 10 archers on a given day. This system means that the winner in any match is the archer who has shot best relative to their own personal performance level.