Disa Tournaments

The Disa Tournament format is designed to be implemented in all categories of archers with the aim of increasing participation at all levels, and making it fun at the same time! The basis of the Disa tournaments is the defunct junior and intermediate events, which now includes all levels of archers.

The Disa Tournament:

• Is a stepping-stone to bring novice archers and regu1ar tournament archers together
• Includes all archers.
• Senior archers shoot 36 arrows at each of the following distances: 6Om, 50m, 40m, 30m with the 122cm face at 60m & 50 metres, and the 80cm face at 40m & 30m. [6Om being intermediate between 30m & 9Om]
• U14 juniors shoot 36 arrows at each of the following distances: 40m, 30m, 20m & 15m.
  U12 juniors will shoot 72 arrows in total; 36 at 30m, and 36 at 15m. These will be shot as a double 30m, double 15m, with the same timing as the rest of the field.
• Shooting to be less formal to take place without a time limit, but to the whistle blast.
• Allows archers to receive advice on the shooting line
• Encourages experienced archers to assist inexperienced archers
• Divide all archers into 3 Categories as follows
  • Advanced archers: Archers who have shot over 1100 recurve/1250 compound tournament FIT A scores in the last three years.
• Experienced Archers: Archers who have shot in 3 or more FITA tournaments.
• DISA archers: Archers who have not yet shot in 3 FITA tournaments.

Points are accumulated over the 6 shoots of the year. Medals to be awarded to the top three compound and top three recurve archers in each category over the 6 shoots.

DISA awards be earned by shooting the following scores:

These incentives should be pretty demanding and stand about 60 points higher than the equivalent FIT A scores. Personal best distance and DISA scores should be kept for each archer. After an archer bas shot three DISA tournaments, PB points are accumulated by surpassing their previous Personal Best scores (eg: PB = 280 and 286 is shot then, 6 PB points are earned). The 3 most improved archers over the previous year are awarded medals. The WPAA will award the DISA awards. The Disa Tournaments are for all archers, in all divisions and categories.

A Handicap System for General Usage

Way back in the past handicapping was done by each archer starting with their handicap score and building on it.

During the course of a day's shooting, handicap scores were spread wide apart, resu1ting in no interaction until the end of the day when everyone who shot to their average score drew together in a close finish.

The selected arrows handicap system addressed this problem by according close competition throughout the day, however, administration was onerous and many archers were unhappy with either not being able to score with their good arrows, or with having to score with their worst arrows.

Golf is a game where handicapping is an integral part of the average golfer's experience of the game. Top championship golfers play to a scratch score, but the majority play to a handicap.

The popularity of the game, despite enormous costs tell of the success of the system.

Following this format, why don't we also profit from this system. It is so simple, it is so accurate - groupings are separated by a. mere 24 points, 1 point per end.

Starting from the SA records as the scratch Scores~ your personal handicap is the number of points that you have to add each end in order to reach that scratch score. If your average score is a 1050 FITA and the SA record is 1300 your handicap is (1300 - 1050) divided by 24 =; 10,42 rounded to the nearest whole number which is l0 in this case.

If your average score was a 1030 FIT A, your handicap would work out to be : 11 ,25 rounded to 11. In this example, archer A would be adding 10 points each end to equal to total of 240 added, whilst archer B would be adding 11 points each end, equal to a total of 264 added. Archer A would thus finish with 1290, whilst archer B would finish with 1294. But, just think of the battle end by end during the day. Makes you think!

If the shoot is nominated as a league shoot, or wherever a FITA score is required, the handicap system could run concurrently with the handicap score.

Just think of the fun you could have every time you shoot. Adding on your personal handicap each end you could have a ding-dong battle with anyone. I’m sure that you could manage to add on your 6 or whatever points each end – nobody’s arithmetic is that poor. Then think of the ongoing challenge to :reduce your handicap.

The average of your best three scores of the past years would be the figure that official handicaps would work on, which means that you need your highest three FITA scores to have a handicap, or at least have shot three.