Optional Competition Day for Provincial Standard Championships
(HC = Hosting Club)
- All CTSASA provincial championships are traditionally shot over two days (Saturday and Sunday). However, the HC may choose to offer competitors the option of shooting 100 competition targets on the Friday preceding their provincial championship, i.e. the day before the start of the provincial championship.
- The HC must communicate well in advance of the Standard Championship that the option to shoot competition scores on the Friday is available.
- This option is only available for standard provincial championships.
- The option of shooting competition targets on a Friday is not guaranteed and is subject to the HC receiving the minimum number of entries to fill the squads.
- Setting up the Juries : The standard rules for setting up the Juries for a CTSASA championship apply to Friday Competition Shooting. Please refer to the CTSASA Competition Regulations.
- Full squads required : all squads must conform to the rules governing the filling of squads. No squads may be less than 3 in number.
- All competition events on the Friday should ideally be shot in the morning and completed by no later than 11h30. Friday afternoon is reserved for practice rounds. Practice for all disciplines must be made available on the Friday afternoon.
- At all times, the provincial CTSA Management, in conjunction with the HC Management, has the discretion to allocate the available competition targets for the disciplines to be shot at their provincial championship.
- The limit of shooting 200 targets in any one discipline at a provincial championship still applies, i.e. a competitor may not shoot 300 targets in any one discipline.
- The disciplines available to be shot on a Friday are as follows:-
ATA Trap (singles) : maximum 2 squads per range
ATA Trap Doubles
DTL Trap : maximum 2 squads per range
Universal Trench : maximum 2 squads per range
NSSA Skeet (singles) : maximum 2 squads per range
NSSA Skeet Doubles
- ‘Per range’ = if a club has one range for a discipline (e.g. one Trap range), then 2 squads can shoot the discipline. If a club has two ranges (e.g. two Trap ranges) then 4 squads can shoot.
- If an HC hosts competition targets on a Friday, then the HC MUST make practice ranges available the day before, i.e. the Thursday.
- Members shooting practice rounds may not shoot in the same squads with competitors shooting competition rounds.
- Rotation of squads and ranges shooting competition targets : where an HC has two ranges in any discipline, e.g. two Skeet ranges, the competition targets shot on a Friday must be shot equally over both ranges i.e. 2 rounds on Range 1 and 2 rounds on Range 2.
- During the morning, practice rounds may be shot on ranges not being used for competition rounds.
- Practice for Universal Trench competitors :
- UT competitors who shoot their provincial championship targets on Friday may only shoot their practice rounds on the Thursday.
- UT competitors who start their competition on Saturday may shoot their UT practice rounds on either Thursday or Friday.
- To be clear, any UT competitor who shoots their first 100 competition targets on Friday may NOT practice UT on Friday afternoon.
- Any UT competitor who shoots their first 100 competition targets on Friday and who contravenes this rule will be immediately disqualified from the championship.
- Squadding/Timetable : (new clause in Competition Regulations “Competition Procedures”) : Once the squadding lists and shooting timetable(s) have been published, competitors may not request any changes to their choice of days to shoot their chosen events.
Any cancellation of entries by the competitor must be notified to the Organising Committee as soon as practically possible.
The OC may only alter the shooting timetable to facilitate last minute changes due to
i. Cancellations or
ii. Late entries in accordance with the rules or
iii. To correct errors caused by incorrect calculations of the timetable.
The OC is not permitted to alter the squadding or timetable due to competitors requesting late personal preferences (e.g. choice of day, choice of squad or refusal to shoot with a particular competitor).
The rule concerning competition entries cut-off point in the Competition Regulations must be strictly enforced:
No entries can be accepted after commencement of the competition
It is mandatory that no entries shall be accepted for any discipline after the first shot has been fired which signifies the start of the competition, except in ATA where entries can be accepted until Squad 1 has completed its first round. See rule IV, D3 (Firing Position and Shooting Order) in the ATA rulebook.
